Baltimore amateur Charles Randolph Uncles used the pseudonym "Randolph." Besides editing the puzzling column "Head Work" in the professional Baltimore paper Golden Rule. (Source: "Puzzlers' Intelligence" Mazy Masker (San Francisco), Mar. 1879) By 1880 he was editing the "Our Puzzler" column in the amateur paper Odds and Ends (Jan. 1880). Click here to view the column; needs to be cataloged for bib id; shoot Jan. 1880
Charles R. Uncles was the son of Lorenzo and Anna Marie (Buchanan) Uncles. Raised Catholic in Baltimore, Uncles studied at St. Hyacinthe College-Seminary in Quebec and St. Joseph Seminary in Baltimore. He was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1891, the first African American to be ordained within the United States. A co-founder of St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart religious order, Uncles was a professor at Epiphany Apostolic College in New Windsor, N.Y. when he died in 1933.