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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 […]

1848-1908 Adoniram Judson Burt Railroad Auditor     Michigan     MI The page 3 headline of the Detroit Times for 12 June 1908, announced that “Judson Burt is Called Suddenly by Death.” After describing his demise of the previous day, the newspaper reviewed his career and importance to the community: Mr. Burt had been associated with the

1848-1880 Adoniram Judson Stevens Baptist Pastor     Canada          NS/NB When James Stevens was 44 and his wife Grace was 42, they had a son in South Rawdon, Nova Scotia, Canada, and named him Adoniram Judson Stevens. This lad graduated in 1875 from Acadia College, NS, and became the pastor of the Baptist Church in Kentville, Kings County,

1847-1933 Adoniram Judson Holt Baptist Minister                       KY/FL It was at the suggestion of my Grandfather Buckner that I received the name of that distinguished missionary to Burmah, Adoniram Judson. This great man was living and in the meridian of his fame and usefulness. I recall how difficult it was for me to learn

1847-Present  Judson Baptist Association  VA when founded, but now WV. Before there was ever a West Virginia, the Judson Baptist Association was organized in Virginia at Barracksville in Marion County on 26 November 1847. It consisted of ten churches as follows: Hopewell, Harmony, St. Paul, Union, Bethesda, Lebanon, Bethany, West Fork, Morgantown, and Goshen. Rev.

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