It was around the same time that her three-year relationship with an Oregon liquor commission warehouse worker began to intensify.

By 1829, Randolph had three commission warehouses, six dry goods stores, ten physicians and one tavern.

As a young man, he worked in a commission warehouse in Philadelphia, but subsequently resigned to become a conductor on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.

Last year some of the grain donated to the commission was sent to mills to be ground for the army, said Eyesu Berhe, a storekeeper at the commission warehouse in Asmara.