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2 unusual facts about William Randolph


William Randolph

Tuckahoe was the Native American name for an edible water plant.

Around 1675 he married Mary Isham (1660 Bermuda Hundred, James River, Henrico County, Virginia–25 December 1735 Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia), whose father, Henry Isham (c. 1628 Pytchley, Northamptonshire–c. 1676 Bermuda Hundred, James River, Henrico County, Virginia), was from a gentry family in Northamptonshire.


Junius Daniel

His mother, Martha Stith, came from a prominent family of early Virginians that descended from John Stith and William Randolph.


see also

Jazz journalism

In 1920, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer extended yellow journalism into tabloid journalism with an emphasis on sex, violence, murder, and celebrity affairs.

Neptune Pool

The pool's main axis centerpiece and north terminus is the façade of an actual Ancient Roman temple that William Randolph Hearst had purchased in Europe and imported to San Simeon.

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

During this period, however, William Randolph Hearst was actually millions of dollars in debt mainly owing to his excessive spending, particularly on his continuing construction of his already sprawling mansion near San Simeon, California which was located on a property approximately half the size of the state of Rhode Island.

William Randolph Hearst II

New York Times; October 23, 2005; Heather Disbrow Carlton, 33, the daughter of Christina and Merritt Carlton of Fernandina Beach, FL, was married yesterday at the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, California, to Jason Gooch Hearst, the son of Jennifer Rowe of Hope, Maine, and William Randolph Hearst II of San Luis Obispo, California.

William Randolph Hearst, Jr.

He was instrumental in restoring some measure of family control to the Hearst Corporation, which under his father's will is (and will continue to be while any grandchild alive at William Randolph Hearst Sr.'s death in 1951 is still living) controlled by a board of thirteen trustees, five from the Hearst family and eight Hearst executives.

William Stein

Randy Stein (William Randolph Stein, 1953–2011), baseball pitcher

Wilton House Museum

1753 in a Georgian style by William Randolph III, son of William Randolph II, of Turkey Island.