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Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph (March 25, 1848 in Clarke County, Virginia–August 5, 1920) was an American civil engineer who is best known as the chief engineer of the Sanitary District of Chicago during the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Randolph had no formal engineering training, he began his career as a railroad axeman. After completing the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, at the time the largest canal in the world, Randolph became a consulting engineer on the Panama Canal at the request of the Roosevelt Administration.
== Early Life in Virginia (1848–1870) ==
Isham Randolph is a descendant of the prominent Randolph family of Virginia.〔 He was 13 years old when the American Civil War began, and lost two brothers who fought for the Confederate States of America.〔 Randolph's family owned slaves, and Randolph learned the beginnings of his engineering skills from a slave his family owned.〔 In 1868, Randolph became an axeman working on the Winchester and Strasburg Railroad, part of the Winchester and Potomac Railroad operated at the time by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.〔 Following his service with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, he was the (Assistant Engineer for the Scioto Valley Railroad ). Randolph Street in Ashville, Ohio is named in his honor.
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