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1837-????  Adoniram Judson Gray Soldier/Physician      ME/CA Adoniram Judson Gray was born in Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, October 28, 1837, of American-colonial descent and attended the Massachusetts State Normal School and Bowdoin College (1859). His professional training was at Harvard and Dartmouth Medical Colleges where he received the M. D. degree in 1861. He married Alice […]

1836-1899  Adoniron Judson Boyakin   Printer and Publisher  IL/ID (Compiler’s prerogative: Though this name is not spelled like the traditional Adoniram, the compiler is free to assume the lad’s parents had the great missionary in mind when they phonetically spelled out the name of their new son.) When Adoniron Judson Boyakin was born on 6

1836-1911  Adoniram Judson Allen Editor/Journalist   NJ/IA Adoniram Judson Allen was born on 15 July 1836 (maybe 1837), in Newark, New Jersey to James Madison Allen, who was 26 and, Harriet Brown, who was 21. Allen was the fourth of 12 children born to this couple. At age 26, he married Amanda Ball on 25 September 1862,

1836-1902  Adoniram Judson Sage Baptist Pastor/Professor     OH/OH Adoniram Judson Sage (1836-1902) was born in Massillon, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Rochester, NY, in 1860. His father, Orrin N. Sage (1805-1884), was a pastor in Ohio and one of the leading figures in stabilizing the Ohio Baptist Convention through his efforts as a fund-raising

1836-1895  Adoniram Judson Gordon Baptist Minister/Educator   NH/MA  Historian Richard V. Pierard reminds us that Adoniram Judson Gordon was a true New Englander all his life. He was born in New Hampshire on April 19, 1836, to a Baptist deacon named John Calvin Gordon. Young A. J, went to college in Rhode Island (Brown University), attended seminary

1835?-1910 Adoniram Judson Colby Baptist Pastor/Missionary     IA/IL/KS (Compiler’s Note: We can find no record of the birth of Rev. Adoniram Judson Colby only picking up his ministry in 1860 in Iowa. Thus, I arbitrarily will guess he was born 25 years before this ministry and place him in the legacy listing at 1835.) The first

1834-1910 Adoniram Judson Warner Businessman/Public Servant      NY/OH In January 1834 Adoniram Judson, Jr., finished translating the Bible into Burmese after working on 25-30 verses each day since 1813. Also, in January 1834, Adoniram Judson Warner was born. I am grateful to “The Strangest Names in American Political History” blogspot and Wikipedia for Warner’s story. Born

1833-1915 Adoniram Judson Rich Congregational & Unitarian Minister  ME/MA Adoniram Judson Rich was born in 1833 the son of Daniel Fogg Rich and his wife, Anne.  He had nine siblings. He later married Harriet Louise Rich and they birthed four children. He studied (1859-61) at the Baptist’s Colby College in Maine and then Union Theological

1833-1903 Adoniram Judson Loomis Attorney/Post Master         NY/KS The original notes on Adoniram Judson Loomis are reported here from FindAGrave. Adoniram Judson Loomis was born 21 June 1833 in Geneseo, New York. He was the son of Jacob and Sarah M. Kimball Loomis. His first wife was Nancy Vradenburg who birthed two children in Michigan before

1833-1901  Adoniram Judson Thompson Physician/Farmer    NC/NC Adoniram Judson Thompson was born into a family of North Carolina farmers and plantation owners on 1 December 1833, and by 1849 he was a student at Wake Forest College. We have been unable to determine where he went to medical school but by 1858, Dr. Thompson was registered