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1841-1917  Adoniram Judson Sawyer Businessman/Public Servant NH Andy Osterdahl’s very interesting blogsite entitled “Political Strange Names” provides this summary and this image of Adoniram Judson Sawyer. Hailing from New Hampshire, Adoniram Judson Sawyer gained distinction on the Civil War battlefield as well as through public service in the city of Exeter, where he served at […]

1840-1917  Adoniram Judson Rowland Baptist Pastor/Publisher     PA/PA Adoniram Judson Rowland was born on February 9, 1840 in Valley Forge, PA, the son of Samuel Norton and Susanna (Suplee) Rowland. He was baptized at Lawrenceville, PA, by Rev. W. H. H. Marsh on January, 6, 1858. AJ earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Bucknell University

1839-1912  Adoniram Judson Cheves Baptist Pastor    Georgia    GA/GA Adoniram Judson Cheves was born July 5, 1839, at Montezuma in Macon County, Georgia the son of Isaac Green Cheves and Ann Elizabeth Cheves. He began studies at Mercer University during the Civil War finishing a BA in 1862 and an MA in 1869. His wife was Anna Marie

1838-1882   Adoniram Judson Pickard Physician   Maine   ME/ME Long before there was a Jean-Luc Picard (born July 13, 2305), Captain of the Federation starship USS Enterprise, there was an Adoniram Judson Pickard who was born in Penobscot County, Maine, on Christmas Eve, 1838. He received his A. B. degree from Bowdoin College (1863) but his class

1838-1912 Adoniram Judson Hutchinson Soldier/Citizen       VA/WV The Raleigh Herald of Beckley, WV, reported the passing of Confederate veteran Adoniram Judson Hutchinson on page 3, its obituary page of 2 August 1912. Last Sunday afternoon at four o’clock Judson Hutchinson, after having reached a ripe old age of 76 years, was summoned to answer the death

1838-1918  Adoniram Judson Frost Baptist Pastor/Lecturer      NY/CA I am sure there must be an obituary or summary of the life of Adoniram Judson Frost but I have not yet discovered it. Calculating that he was 80 years, 3 months and 20 days old when he died in 1918, we can assume he was born in

1838-1913  Adoniram Judson Clark Soldier/Public Servant   NY/NJ We depend on Wikipedia again to provide a good summary of the life of this Judson legacy. Adoniram Judson Clark was born in Fayetteville, NY, October 1, 1838, but most of his life was lived in New Jersey. He commanded a New Jersey battery in the American Civil War. He enlisted in

1838-2021   Judson College Marion, Alabama      AL/AL The Wikipedia entry on the noble history of Judson College gives a sweeping picture of this Alabama school for women. Judson College was founded by members of Siloam Baptist Church in Marion, Alabama, in 1838, making it the fifth-oldest women’s college in the country and the longest-lived namesake of the Judson educational

1837-1916   Adoniram Brown Judson Physician     Burma/New York Missionary and historian, Rosalie Hall Hunt, reports vividly on this son of Adoniram Judson, Jr. and Sarah Hall Boardman Judson, in Bless God and Take Courage. In 1915, an elderly Dr. [Adoniram Brown] Judson wrote recollections of his Moulmein childhood. His reminiscences are full of the derring-do of

1837-1922  Adoniram Judson Pinkham Soldier/Public Servant       IL/ID Thanks to “The Strangest Names in American Political History” and Andy Osterdahl for the information and image in this entry. Adoniram Judson Pinkham’s political claim to fame rests on his service as Idaho Secretary of State from 1891-1893 as well as being a signer of the Idaho State