Adin Randall

Adin Randall (October 12, 1829 – April 26, 1868) was a philanthropist, businessman, and politician in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin, who served as a first Treasurer of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. He ran a ferry across the Chippewa, a planing mill, a sash and door factory, and contracted with Levi Wesley Pond who invented and patented the sheer boom to efficiently shunt logs into Half Moon Lake. He is regarded as one of the founders of the city. He donated the land for Randall Park, Lakeview Cemetery and the Eau Claire Area School District.

Early life Adin Randall was born in Brookfield, New York. In 1852 he married Clamenzia Babcock, and in 1854 moved west and settled in Madison, Wisconsin. when he was thirty-nine years old.

Legacy Noted for his philanthropies, he donated Randall Park to the city of Eau Claire, and a statue is erected to commemorate him and his service to Eau Claire. Mears began working on the statue in 1911, when commissioned by O. H. Ingram of the City of Eau Claire. The final statue was cast in bronze and installed in Randall Park in Eau Claire in 1915. The Eau Claire Landmarks Commission created a commemorative marker of the life of Randall which is located in Owen Park along the Chippewa River Trail. Randall's home (built in 1862) is in the National Register of Historic Places.