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1850-1929 Adoniram Judson Bonsall Baptist Pastor    Pennsylvania   PA The 1850, and final, report from the Baptist mission in Burma, led by Adoniram Judson, Jr., since 1813, told of 7,908 baptized Christians in 62 churches with 174 trained leaders. That same year, Adoniram Judson Bonsall was born October 30 in Sharpsburg, PA, and served nearly all his […]

1850-1911 Adoniram Judson Ives Methodist Minister     Illinois         IL The Reverend Adoniram Judson Ives was born on July 16, 1850, to Titus and Hannah B. Ives in Canada and received his education at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. While there he met Miss Kenedy of Hull, Ill., who was also a student there, and after his graduation

1850-1933 Adoniram Judson Brooks Baptist Pastor         Alabama        AL/AL Adoniram Judson Brooks was one of eleven children born to Rev. Middleton Brooks, the first missionary appointed by the Judson Missionary Baptist Association (see entry 1850-Present) of southeastern Alabama. Of those eleven children, 4 were boys and all 4 became Baptist pastors.  Adoniram was born August 28,

1850-Present Judson Missionary Baptist Association Abbeville, Alabama   AL On April 12, 1850, Adoniram Judson died on board the Aristide Marie and was buried at sea just northwest of the Andaman Islands.  It took four months for the news to reach his wife Emily in Burma but the news got to America before it arrived

1850-Present Judson Baptist Church Abbeville, Alabama       AL There were baptisms in the creek near the site of Judson Baptist Church in 1848 before the congregation was formally established in 1850, the year that Adoniram Judson, Jr., died off the coast of Burma. On March 11, 1850, for the sum of $1.00, John N. Boatright gave

1849-1910 Adoniram Judson Gridley Farmer/Father                     IL/MI Selah Gridley and Catherine Skinner Gridley birthed a son on 18 December 1849 in Newark, Kendall County, Illinois, and named the lad Adoniram Judson Gridley. He had one brother and 3 sisters.  In the 1870 census he was living with his parents in Big Grove township, Illinois. On 20

1849-1900  Adoniram Judson Rue Attorney/Public Servant     NJ/PA Matthew and Mary Rue of Dutch Neck, NJ, had a son on November 20, 1849, and named him Adoniram Judson Rue. In 1875 he graduated from Madison University (now Colgate University) and was listed as an attorney in Trenton, NJ, 1878-1900. The Trenton Times reported in 1883, “They

1849-1916 Adoniram Judson Cushing Attorney/Public Servant             MA/RI Adoniram Judson Cushing was noted at his passing in 1916 as “one of the most prominent attorneys in Providence, Rhode Island.”[1] He was born in 1849 (the year the Adoniram Judson’s health began to fail), in North Attleboro, MA, to Alpheus Nelson Cushing and Charlotte Everett Foster. He

1849-1928 Judson Hinkle Browning Farmer/Carpenter              KY/AR Robert Covington Browning (1820-1906) and his wife Mary Eliza welcomed their first son to their old Kentucky home on 1849. This solid Baptist couple were so enamored with the work of Adoniram Judson, they named this new baby boy Judson Hinkle Browning. In fact, Robert and Mary Browning

1848-Present Judson Association of Baptist Churches           North Central Indiana IN The Judson Association of Baptist churches in northwestern Indiana was organized in 1848 at the Camden Baptist Church and comprised about 454 Baptist Christians at its founding. Franklin College President William Taylor Scott describes the scene as a struggle between missionary and anti-missionary churches: At a