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482 acquired renown in Louisiana as a skilful negotia- tor and able soldier. His influence with the Indi- ans and knowledge of their language induced Iber- ville (q. v.) to place him in command of the French fort at the mouth of the Mississippi in 1700. La Motte Cadillac sent him on a mission to the vice- roy of Mexico, in 1714, to make a treaty of com- merce. After travelling through a great extent of country and meeting several Spanish governors and officers, by whom he was well received, he reached the city of Mexico, 25 June, 1715. He was at first imprisoned by the viceroy, but, on the lat- ter's learning that he was a relative of Iberville, he was set at liberty and treated with courtesy. He afterward went on a mission to the Assinais Indi- ans of Texas, who were in revolt, persuaded them to submit to the Spaniards, and returned to Mexi- co accompanied by twenty- five of their chiefs. He was not successful, however, in achieving the object of his embassy, returning to Mobile, 25 Aug., 1716. During the attack of the Spaniards on the French possessions on the Gulf of Mexico in 1719, he assembled the Biloxi and other Indian tribes, and, at their head, contributed to the repulse of the Spaniards from Dauphin island. He was re- warded with the cross of St. Louis and made gov- ernor of Fort Natchitoches in 1720. The fort was besieged in 1731 by the Natchez. He had only a few soldiers, but, having received a re-enforcement of Assinais, he attacked the enemy and defeated them, destroying nearly all their leaders.

JUDAH, Henry Moses, soldier, b. in Snow Hill, Md., 12 June, 1821 ; d. in Plattsburg, N. Y., 14 Jan., 1866. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in July, 1843, and, entering the 8th infantry, served in the Mexican war. He com- manded his company at the storming of Monterey, and for bravery at Molino del Rey, and at the cap- ture of the city of Mexico, was brevetted 1st lieu- tenant and captain. On 29 Sept., 1853. he became captain in the 4th infantry, and served actively against the Indians of California and Washington and Oregon territories till the civil war. He was made colonel of a regiment of volunteers in 1861, brigadier-general of volunteers, 21 March, 1862, and acting inspector-general of the Army of the Tennessee. Resigning his staff appointment, he was ordered to command the 1st division of the army of the reserve, which he relinquished after the evacuation of Corinth by the Confederate troops. He was reappointed acting inspector-gen- eral of the Army of the Ohio, 10 Oct., 1862, and held various other commands until he was mus- tered out of volunteer service. 24 Aug., 1865. He was active in his pursuit of Morgan at the time of the latter's raid into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, in 1863. At his death he was commandant of the post at Plattsburg, N. Y.

JUDD, Gerrit Parmalee, Hawaiian statesman, b. in Paris, Oneida co., N. Y., 23 April, 1803 ; d. in Honolulu, Hawaiian islands, 12 July, 1873. He studied medicine, and in 1828 went to Honolulu as a physician in the service of the American foreign mission. In 1840 he accompanied Com. Wilkes in his exploring expedition through the islands, and in 1842 he severed his connection with the mission and became recorder and interpreter to the govern- ment, of Kamehameha III. When Lord George Paulet took possession of the islands in 1843, Dr. Judd was appointed one of the joint commission to represent the king, but soon resigned. When the sovereignty was restored to Kamehameha III., 31 July, 1843, Dr. Judd was invited by the king to or- ganize a ministry, which he did, and this was the first Hawaiian cabinet. In the following year he took the portfolio of finance, which he held till 1853. In 1849 he accompanied the princes Liholi- ho and Lot Kamehameha to Europe to make new treaties and to settle a difficulty with France. Dr. Judd established a good financial reputation for the Hawaiian government and many substantial improvements in the city of Honolulu.

JUDD, Norman Buel, lawyer, b. in Rome, N. Y., 10 Jan., 1815; d. in Chicago, 10 Nov., 1878. He received a common-school education, studied law, and in 1836 was admitted to the bar, beginning practice in Chicago. He was city attorney there in 1837-'9, state senator in 1844-, 60, a member of the Bloomington convention which organized the Republican party in 1856, and chairman of the state central committee of that party in 1856-'61. He was chairman of the Illinois delegation in the Chicago convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, and was U. S. minister to Prussia from 1861 till 1865. He was then elected to congress, serving from 4 March, 1867, till 3 March, 1871, and was afterward appointed collector of the port of Chicago by President Grant. He was president of the Peoria and Bureau Valley rail- road and of the Rock Island railroad bridge company. A sketch of his life was published by Arthur Edwards (Chicago, 1878).

JUDD, Orange, editor, b. near Niagara Falls, N. Y., 26 July, 1822. He was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1847, and, after teaching until 1850, spent three years in studying analytical and agricultural chemistry at Yale. He became editor of the "American Agriculturist" in 1853, and in 1856 its owner and publisher, continuing as such until 1881, and also holding the place of agricultural editor of the "New York Times" in 1855-'63. He was the principal member of the firm of Orange Judd and Company, which made a specialty of publishing agricultural and scientific books, and also published "Hearth and Home." During 1863 he served with the U. S. sanitary commission at Gettysburg, and then with the Army of the Potomac from the Rapidan to Petersburg. In 1868-'9 he was president of the New York, Flushing, and North Side railroad, and also president of the New York and Flushing railroad. He has taken an active interest in the affairs of Wesleyan university and edited the first edition of the " Alumni Record." The Orange Judd hall of natural science, dedicated in 1871, is the result of his munificence, and he held the office of trustee in 1871-'81. Mr. Judd has written for the press, notably in his own journals, and originated in 1862 a series of Sunday-school lessons for every Sunday in the year, upon which the later Berean and International lessons have been modelled. — His brother, David Wright, editor, b. in Lockport, N. Y., 1 Sept., 1838; d. in New York city, 6 Feb., 1888. He was graduated at Williams in 1860, was connected with the " N>w York Times," and became editor and a proprietor of "Hearth and Home," and in 1883, president of the O. Judd publishing company. During the civil war he enlisted as a private, but received a captain's commission before he resigned. He was elected as a Republican to the New York legislature in 1871, and introduced the Judd jury bill and also the bill establishing the National rifle association. In 1873 he was appointed one of the three commissioners of quarantine, and he held the office by reappointment till his death. He was the author of "Two Years' Campaigning in Virginia and Maryland" (Rochester, N. Y., 1864), and edited "The Educational Cyclopaedia" (New York, 1874), and "The Life and Writings of Frank Forester," in ten volumes (vols. i. and ii., 1882).