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 JUDD. KEENE. 349 school board, and one year was collector of taxes. Immediately after admission to the bar he opened an office in Felton- ville, Marlborough. The growth of the village was so rapid, that in 1S64 Mr. Joslin wrote a series of articles which were published in the local paper, recommend- ing the incorporation of a new town. As .1 result of this and other efforts in the same direction, the town of Hudson was incorporated in 1S66. Mr. Joslin was made a member of a committee of three to attend to all matters pertaining to the changes made, and served until the work was consummated. Since the town was incorporated, he has been elected thirty- nine times as moderator to preside at town meetings. In politics he has always been a staunch Republican, and for two years was a mem- ber of the Republican state central com- mittee. He was an active participant in the construction of the Massachusetts Central Railroad, and retained his interest therein until it was leased to the Boston & Lowell Railroad Company. For some years he was a director in the corpora- tion. Mr. Joslin is a trial justice, to which office he was appointed in 1867. He was postmaster two years during President Lincoln's administration. With the fra- ternity of Odd Fellows he lias been ac- tive ; was elected noble grand of Hudson lodge at its institution in 1 87 1 ; in the grand lodge has served several years on the committee on appeals; in 1880 was elected grand master, and the two years following was representativ.e to the sov- ereign grand lodge. He is also a trustee of the Odd Fellows' Home. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a past eminent commander of Trinity com- mandery of K. T. of Hudson. In religion he has always affiliated with the liberal school, and is a life-member of the American Unitarian Association. Not- withstanding his activity in society mat- ters, he has not neglected his profession, to which he is devoted, and in which he has attained an honorable rank. He married Annie Catherine Burrage, October 14, 1801. Their children are : Ralph Edgar, a lawyer, and Nellie Watson Joslin. JUDD, Frederick Eugene, son of William D. and Melvina A. (Carleton) Judd, was born in Lowell, Middlesex county, March 30, 1852. His educational training was received in the Lowell schools, he graduating from the high school July 24, 1869. He entered business life as book-keeper for a wholesale woolen house, Boston, and subsequently removed to Northampton, engaging in the same business. In November, 1887, he was taken into company with A. G. Judd, in a general store at Southampton, under the firm name of A. G. Judd & Co. Previous to. this he was in the employ of Mr. Judd. Mr. Judd has been for the past twelve years chairman of the Republican town committee, Republican district committee, assistant postmaster, anil town clerk. He has served three years as town treasurer, and has been census enumerator three terms for Kasthampton and Southampton. At present he is town treasurer. He is a justice of the peace, and is much employed in settling estates, as executor and administrator. His church connec- tions are with the Congregational church, of which he is an officer, organist and musical director. Mr. Judd is a lineal descendant of the Rev. Jonathan Judd, first minister of South- ampton, who was settled in that parish from 1 743 to 1803. KEENE, Walter Scott, son of Xorris and Sarah Ann (Nye) Keene, was born in Palmyra, Somerset county, Maine, Novem- ber 9, 185S. He received his education in the common schools of Palmyra and adjoining towns in Somerset county. He was for a time clerk for his father in Palmyra. At nine- teen years of age he entered, as porter and laborer, the store of Shaw Brothers, Bos- ton. Of this house he is now head sales- man and partner. Mr. Keene was married in South Boston, January 6, 1881, to Kate Millet, daughter of Josiah L. and Clarinda (Sherman) Thomas. They have two children : Walter Scott, Jr., and Nellie Iva Keene. Mr. Keene is a member of the Stoneham board of trade, and a director in the Co-op- erative Bank of Stoneham, is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Im- proved Order of Red Men ; he has also been a member of the Republican town