Randall Fish

the father of serial killer Albert Fish.

was a river boat captain, but by 1870 he was a fertilizer manufacturer. -- was 43 years older than his wife Ellen.

The Evening Star, October 18, 1875 Sudden Death from Debility Randall Fish, an old man, while being removed from a dining saloon, near the depot of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad to the Washington Asylum Hospital, Saturday, died in the ambulance, and a post mortem examination was held by Conner Patterson, who decided that he died of senile debility. Deceased was a native of Maine, and it is said was at one time high sheriff of Kennebec, Knox and Lincoln counties of that state. He has been engaged in the sale of a fertilizer in this vicinity for some time past.

The Evening Star, October 20, 1875 The remains of Capt. Randall Fish, who died so suddenly on last Saturday evening were, on account of his having been a member of the Masonic fraternity, interred in the grand lodge ground of the Congressional cemetery yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Steele, of St. Mark's Episcopal church officiated, Capt. Fish at one time was quite wealthy, being a director of a bank in New York city and president of gold mining and lumber companies in Virginia. He led an active business life for almost three score years and ten. He was a man of quick perceptive faculties, and was the author of many useful inventions

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