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1847-1924 Adoniram Judson Hopkins Baptist Pastor  Maine/Vermont ME/VT Adoniram Judson Hopkins was born May 24, 1847, in Jefferson, ME, and graduated from Harvard University in 1874. The next year he began a four-year term as minister at the Baptist Church, Dunbarton, Merrimack County, NH, where he was ordained in 1876. From 1879 to 1883 he pastored […]

1846-1927 Judson Harmon Attorney/Governor   OHIO OH Judson Harmon (3 February 1846 – 22 February 1927) was born in Newtown, Ohio and named after Adoniram Judson, the famed Baptist foreign missionary.[1] His parents were Benjamin Franklin Harmon, a Baptist minister, and Julia Brunson, a native of Olean, New York. Harmon graduated from the Baptist-related Denison University in 1866. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law School and was admitted

1846-????  Adoniram Judson Huggins Soldier                     MA/KY In February of 1846, during his only furlough to the U. S., Adoniram Judson, Jr., made the request in Richmond, VA, that if the North rattled sabers to begin a war over slavery, “I hope they would be met, on the part of the South, with dignified silence.” Census

1846-1912  Adoniram Judson Applegate Jeweler/Inventor   Massachusetts Peter Wilson Applegate and Allice Ann Mount had a son on 16 May 1846 in Cambridge, MA, and named him Adoniram Judson Applegate. In 1871 he married Hanna Elizabeth Pratt. By the time of the 1880 census, when A. J. was 34 and Hanna was 28, they had a daughter

1846-1859  Judson College Mount Palatine, Putnam County, Illinois     IL Baptist businessman Christopher Winters donated the land in north-central Illinois that would become the second Judson College. After participating in the Black Hawk War, Winters settled in the area now called Putnam County in 1839 where his house was known as The Baptist Tavern because of his

1845-1919  Adoniram Judson Titsworth Congregational Pastor               NJ/WI Adoniram Judson Titsworth was born the year that Adoniram Judson, Jr., came to the States for his only time away from Burma. Young Titsworth was the son of Dunham Titsworth and Hannah A. Sheppard and was born on October 23, 1845, in Shiloh, Cumberland County, New Jersey, where

1845-1899 Adoniram Judson Stone Farmer/Public Servant         NH/VT I am grateful the research of Andy Osterdahl at the blogspot “Political Strange Names” for thus summary on Mr. Stone and the image he graciously shared. Adoniram J. Stone was born in the town of Cornish, New Hampshire on October 13, 1845, the son of Erastus and Lucy

1845-1926 Adoniram Judson Chandler Baptist Pastor       NY/VT/CT Adoniram Judson Chandler was born in Chester, VT, on 12 March 1845, the son of William and Louisa Ellison Chandler, being one of five children. He received his boyhood education in the school of Springfield, VT. In 1863, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted in the ninth Vermont

1845-1917 Adoniram Judson Banker Physician Ohio/Indiana OH/IN The 1860 census records of Washington Township in Shelby County, Indiana note a citizen named John Banker, age 42, as the head of household, a farmer with real estate valued at $4,600 and a personal estate of $975. In his household is his wife, Elizabeth, age 40, and

1844-1927  Adoniram Judson Mathis Realtor/Mayor   Des Moines, Iowa       IA Andy Osterdahl has information on 13 people named for Adoniram Judson at his blogspot, “The Strangest Names in American Political History.” He has granted permission to republish his work and the image he provided for this entry. Adoniram Judson Mathis was born on November 26, 1844,