J.G. Randall and Ruth Painter Randall papers, 1779-1970

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1881, June 24	Born, Indianapolis, Ind.
1903	B.A., Butler University, Indianapolis, Ind.
1904	M.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1911	Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1911	Married Edith Laura Abbott (died 1913)
1913	Published The Confiscation of Property During the Civil War. Indianapolis: Mutual Printing Co.
1917	Married Ruth Elaine Painter
1918-1919	Shipping expert, United States Shipping Board
1920-1949	Professor of history, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
1926	Published Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
1927-1933	Edited with Theodore C. Pease The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning. (2 vols.) Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Library
1937	Published The Civil War and Reconstruction. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co.
1941	Edited with Jeannette P. Nichols Democracy in the Middle West 1840-1940 New York: D. Appleton-Century Co.
1945-1952	Published Lincoln the President. (3 vols.) New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
1946	Published Lincoln and the South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
1947	Published Lincoln the Liberal Statesman. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
1953, Feb. 20	Died, Urbana, Ill.

Date	Event
1892, Nov. 1	Born, Salem, Va.
1913	B.A., Roanoke College, Salem, Va.
1914	M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
1917	Married James G. Randall (died 1953)
1953	Published Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
1955	Published Lincoln's Sons. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
1957	Published The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
1959	Published I Mary. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
1960	Published Colonel Elmer Ellsworth. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
1971, Jan. 22	Died, Urbana, Ill.