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JUDSON

Association for the Advancement of Science. He also founded The Hearth and Home; edited Wesleyan University Alumni Records from 1833 to 1869 (1869), and wrote many reports and essays upon agricultural topics. He died in Evanston, 111., Dec. 27, l.s9'2.

JUDD, 5ylvester, antiquary, was born in Westli:iur/l..i). .Mass., April '.»;3, 17^9; son of Syl- vester Ji dd, and grandson of the Rev. Jonatlian Judd, of Southampton, Ma.ss., the first clergy- man of the place. He received a common-school education and found employment in his father's store in Westhampton, where he spent his leisure time in studying languages, history and mathe- matics. He was married about 1808 to Apphia, daughter of Aaron Hall, of Norwich. He be- came a partner in the store in 1808; represented the town in the general court for several years; and removed to Northampton in 1822, where he was editor and proprietor of the Hampshire Gazette. He gave much attention to botany and geology and to the local history of the towns of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He published: Thomas Judd and his Descendants (1856), and during his lifetime he prepared the manuscript for a History of Hadley, published posthumouslj', with a note on the author's life (1863). He died in Northampton, Mass., April 18, 1860.

JUDD, Sylvester, author, was born in West- hampton, Mass., July 23, 1813; son of Sylvester and Apphia (Hall) Judd. He removed to North- ampton in 1822 with his parents, and attended the Hawley grammar school and subsequently Westfield and Hopkins academies. He was gradu- ated from Yale in 1836, meanwhile teaching school in New Haven, Conn., to meet his college expenses. He declined a professorship at Miami (Ohio) college in 1836, and entered the Harvard Divinity school, where he was graduated B.D. in 1840. He supplied the pulpit of Unitarian churches in Augusta, Maine, and Deerfield, Mass., and was ordained pastor of East parish, after- ward Christ church, Augusta, Maine, Oct. 1, 1840, where he remained until 1853. He was opposed to intemperance, war, and capital punish- ment; and in his later years devoted his efforts to spreading the idea that children should be re- garded as members of the church from the time of their birth. While in the Harvard Divinity school he wrote and published a book entitled: A Yoiing Man's Accoxnit of his Conversion from Calvinism. He subsequently published: Margaret, a Tale of the Real and Ideal (1845; rev, eds., 1851 and 1856): Philo, an Evangeliad (1850); Richard Edney and the Governors Family (1850); TTie White Hills, an Ainerican Tragedy (MS. 1851); TTie Church in a Series of Discourses (1854), and also contributed to the liberal religious press. He died in Augusta, Maine, Jan. 26, 1853.

JUDSON, Adoniram, missionarj', was born in Maiden, Mass., Aug. 9, 1788; son of the Rev. Adoniram and Abigail (Brown) Judson. His father was a Congregational minister. He entered the sophomore class of Brown university in 1804, and was grad- uated valedictorian in 1807. He was at this time sceptical in matters pertaining to religion, and intend- ed to adopt dramatic authorship as his profession. To fam- iliarize himself with the regulations of the stage he joined a theatrical company. The sudden death of a classmate, under peculiar circumstanc- es, changed the whole

course of his life and caused him to regard religion seriously. He taught a private school in Plymouth, Mass., 1808-09, and was graduat- ed from the Andover Theological seminary, Sept. 24, 1810. He consecrated himself to the work of foreign missions, February, 1810, and found in the seminary kindred spirits as ear- nest and zealous as himself in urging on the Christian churches the needs of the heathen. He was licensed by the Orange association of Congregationalist ministers in Vermont, May 17,

1810. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formed, June 28, 1810, and sent him to England to confer with the London Missionary society, to which he offered himself as a missionary to Tartary or India and was ac- cepted. He .set sail in the ship Packet, Jan. 1,

1811, but was captured by the French privateer U Invincible Napoleon and imprisoned in Baj'onne, France, from which place he was soon relea.sed, returning to England and thence to the United States. In the meantime the American board had decided to work independently of any other organization and Judson was ordained Congrega- tional missionary, Feb. 6, 1812. He .set sail for Calcutta under their patronage from Salem, Mass., Feb. 19, t812, with his wife, Ann Hassel- tine Judson, whom he had married, Feb. 5, 1812. Reaching Calcutta, India, June 17, 1812, he iden- tified himself with the Baptist denomination and by this act severed his connection with the Amer- ican board. Burmah had been his destination, but he was not well received there, owing to England's trouble with that government, and he proceeded to the Isle of France, where he worked some months. He then ventured into Burmah and settled in Rangoon, July 14, 1813, and pro-