Daniel Randall Magruder

Daniel Randall Magruder (January 6, 1835 – February 20, 1915) was a Maryland lawyer who served by appointment as a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals in 1881.

Biography Born in Annapolis, Maryland, to George Lee Magruder and Henrietta Sanford Randall Magruder, he attended private schools and later entered St. John's College. He was the youngest member of his class at the time of graduation, in 1853, and the last survivor. After leaving college, he began the study of law in the office of Alexander B. Hagner in Baltimore.

Personal life and death Magruder was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary Sollers, daughter of Congressman Augustus R. Sollers. By that marriage he had one daughter, Mary R. Magruder. His second wife was Miss Rosalie Webster, of Cumberland, who, with the following children, survived him: Rosalie Magruder, Daniel R. Magruder, Eugene Magruder, a civil engineer, and Calvert Magruder, a law student at Harvard University, who would go on to become a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Magruder died at his home in Annapolis at the age of 80, having been in grave condition for several weeks.