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Isham Randolph was the son of Robert Carter Randolph, a physician, and his wife, Lucy Nelson (Wellford). He was a descendant of William Randolph, founder of the family in Virginia, tracing his ancestry through the paternal line to William's son Isham. He was born on March 25, 1848 on his father's farm at New Market, Clarke County, Virginia.
The Civil War, during which his family suffered greatly, deprived him of educational advantages. Apart from what his mother taught him, his schooling under masters was limited to twenty-one months in private schools near his home.
In 1868, deciding to become a civil engineer, he took up railroad work, rising by persistent effort and hard, independent study, coupled with native resourcefulness, through the grades of axman, rodman, levelman, and transitman, to that of resident engineer. In this capacity, in 1873, he built twenty-seven miles of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the roundhouse and shops at South Chicago, Illinois.
Later (1880), as chief engineer of the Chicago & Western Indiana Belt Railway, he built terminals and freight houses. After seventeen years in the employ of different railroad companies, he opened an office in Chicago and was engaged in general engineering practice from 1885 to 1893.
During this period he served the Illinois Central Railroad as chief engineer in locating and building the Chicago, Madison & Northern Railroad and the Freeport & Dolgeville line. He also acted as consulting engineer for the Union Stock Yards and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
In June 1893 he was appointed chief engineer of the Sanitary District of Chicago, a position he held for fourteen years, during the entire construction period of the Chicago Drainage Canal. This notable enterprise, which changed the direction of the Chicago River so that its waters flow into the Mississippi instead of into Lake Michigan, was the largest artificial canal in the world until the completion of the Panama Canal. In recognition of the achievement, Randolph was awarded a gold medal by the Paris Exposition in 1900, and he was retained as consulting engineer for five years after the completion of the project.
In 1905, he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as a member of a board of consulting engineers to determine the type of the Panama Canal. He was one of the minority of five whose recommendation of the lock type, as opposed to the sea-level canal, was ultimately adopted. Subsequent experience with the Culebra Cut proved the wisdom of the minority report.
In 1908, he was a member of the advisory board of six engineers which accompanied President-Elect Taft to Panama to consider whether there was necessity for any fundamental change in the plans upon which construction had begun. This board unanimously approved the lock canal across the Isthmus. Randolph designed and constructed for the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park Commission the obelisk dam above the Horseshoe Falls, building it on end, on the river bank, like an obelisk, and then tilting it over into the rapids. He was consulting engineer for the city of Toronto in connection with track elevation and the construction of a new water supply system and works.
As chairman of the Internal Improvement Commission of Illinois he assisted in plans for a canal from Lockport, Illinois, to Utica, Illinois, including five hydro-electric power plants for developing 140, 000 horsepower. He was a member of the Illinois State Conservation Commission, of the state River and Lakes Commission, and of the Chicago Harbor Commission.
In later years he was engaged in land reclamation work, serving as consulting engineer for the Little River Drainage District of Southeast Missouri and as chairman of the Florida Everglades Commission to consider the drainage of the Everglades. In February 1913, the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia awarded him the Elliott Cresson Medal in recognition of "distinguished achievement in the field of civil engineering. "
During the World War, he was instrumental in the organization of the Citizens' Unit of the 108th Engineers, of which he was elected president.
He died in Chicago at the age of seventy-two.
He is best known as the chief engineer of the Sanitary District of Chicago during the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. He ranked high in his profession and enjoyed the unlimited confidence of the public. "The name of Isham Randolph attached to any enterprise was a guarantee of honesty, integrity and technical efficiency".
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Randolph married, June 15, 1882, Mary Henry Taylor, daughter of Capt. George Edmund Taylor. She, with three sons, survived him.
