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1871-1883 (1888-89) Judson University Judsonia, Arkansas           AR The history of Judsonia, Arkansas, and the first Judson University are inextricably intertwined. Dr. Martin Forey brought the Baptist College Colony of some 40 persons to Arkansas to begin the fourth effort at a Baptist school using the Judson legacy. The Baptist College Colony in Prairie county, […]

1872-Present  Town of Judsonia White County, Arkansas      AR Judsonia, Arkansas, is the only incorporated town in America named for our missionary champion, Adoniram Judson, and it may be the only town in America named for any missionary. The community was founded by Martin R. Forey (also spelled Fory) and incorporated in 1872. Forey was

1872-1956 Adoniram Judson Weeks Missionary                   Michigan/Burma Adoniram Judson Weeks was a native of Leslie, Michigan, born January 18, 1872 to Stephen Weeks and Laura Edwina Reynolds. He received a B.A. in 1902 from Kalamazoo College and then attended Newton Theological Institute 1902-1905. Weeks later studied at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Four

1866-1908 Adoniram Judson Kempton Baptist Pastor          Nova Scotia/Iowa Adoniram Judson Kempton was born December 11, 1866, in North East Margaree, Nova Scotia.  He graduated from Arcadia College in Nova Scotia in 1889 and became pastor of Stony Creek Baptist Church in NY the next year. He finished Rochester Theological Seminary in 1892 and then spent

1866-1955 Ann Judson Fogle Wells Mother and Grandmother of Missionaries to China     South Carolina SC Missionary author Rosalie Hall Hunt was a part of the second generation impacted by a godly grandmother named for Ann Judson and describes her mother’s mother, Ann Judson Fogle Wells, in a personal email: She is my grandmother on Mama’s side

1865-1925 Adoniram Judson Benton Congregational Pastor           IA/MN A peer of Adoniram Judson Benton, Mr. Truman Orville (T.O.) Douglass, wrote a series of sketches on early Congregational church leaders in Iowa. He included Rev. Benton in his book of over 800 pages entitled Builders of a Commonwealth which is now digitized from the carbon paper of

1862-1945 Adoniram Judson Arrick Presbyterian Pastor/Composer    IN/KY Adoniram Judson Arrick was born June 26, 1862 the son of John Harry Arrick and Sarah Ann Moore. He graduated from Wabash College in Indiana in 1888 and McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, before being ordained by the Presbytery of Muncie, Indiana in 1890. His wife was Martha Isabell

1861-1945  Adoniram Judson James Physician         Wisconsin/Texas        WI/TX Adoniram Judson James was born on January 21, 1861, in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, to Reverend William Eynon James (1830-1906) and Hannah Edmund James (1831-1904), who were new immigrants to America from Wales. The family had pastoral stops in Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois but eventually migrated to Texas where Judson

1861-1904 Adoniram Judson Colby Businessman/Broom Maker                        IA/KS/AR Adoniram Judson Colby was born August 20, 1861, in Mitchell, Iowa, where his father, also named Adoniram Judson Colby, was pastor of the Baptist Church (see entry 1835?-1910). He married Alma Margaret (King) Abernathy on Sept. 14, 1881 in Phillips County, Kansas, and their children are unknown.

1859-1886 Adoniram Judson Liverman Student/Farmer     North Carolina NC Hartwell Liverman (sometimes spelled Livermon) and Martha Ann Vick Liverman welcomed a son on April 2, 1859, and named him Adoniram Judson Liverman. He was the fifth of six children born to this couple. All we have been able to learn thus far come from census records. In