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1831-1914  Adoniram Judson Padelford Baptist Pastor  New York/Maine NY/ME Adoniram Judson Padelford was born 26 July 1831, in Galway NY. His mother was Martha Crane and his father was appropriately named Sedate Padelford.  In 1858 he graduated from the University of Rochester (NY) and stayed on to finish seminary there in 1860. The databases provided […]

1831-1915 Adoniram Judson Twogood Farmer/Horticulturalist   NY/CA (Compiler’s Note: I would love to give credit to someone who wrote this wonderful sketch of the life of Adoniram Judson Twogood but I cannot find the author. This biography is stored at accessgeneology and was written while Mr. Twogood was still alive. I have made a few edits

1831-???? Adoniram Judson Kelly Baptist pastor/Missionary        NC/GA The 1831 report from the Burman mission told of 217 baptisms and in that same year Adoniram Judson Kelly was born in North Carolina. We are able to find no report on the demise of Adoniram Judson Kelly but his peers wrote glowingly of his ministry while he was

1830-1830 Judson Wade Boardman Infant  Burma Missionaries Sarah Hall and George Dana Boardman had three children while in Burma working alongside Adoniram Judson. Rev. Boardman was born in 1801 and was in the first class of graduates from Waterville College (Colby College, Maine) in 1822 where the president’s son was the young Adoniram Judson Chaplin.

1827-Present Judson Baptist Church    Mawlamyine/Myanmar Maulmein/Burma After the first Anglo-Burmese War ended in 1826, Adoniram and Ann Judson moved their headquarters from Rangoon to Maulmein (now Mawlamyine) and settled under the safety of the British empire. The first church Judson constructed was in 1827 patterned after the zayat from which he worked in Rangoon. A

1827-1909 Adoniram Judson Patterson Pastor/Legislator       PA/NH/MA Thanks to Andy Osterdahl for allowing me to use his research on Adoniram Judson Patterson from “The Strangest Names in American Political History” blogspot. Adoniram Judson Patterson was a noted New Hampshire clergyman who served a term in his state’s House of Representatives in the mid-1860’s. Patterson was born

1827-1906  Adoniram Judson Bradley Soldier/Farmer/Watchman    MA Adoniram Judson Bradley was born 2 March 1827, just 6 weeks before little Marie Elizabeth Butterworth Judson died in Burma at age two, the third child of missionaries Ann and Adoniram Judson to die too young. Bradley was born in Russell, MA, and was a farmer and lumber

1826-1900      Adoniram Judson Billings Physician/Public Servant     Maine   ME Ann Hasseltine Judson died in 1826 not long after her husband had been released from a Burmese prison to help negotiate treaties between the British and the Burmans. Little Adoniram Judson Billings was born later that same year in Newport, Maine, December 3, 1826, and was

1824-1897     Adoniram Judson Batchelder Businessman/Public Servant MA/CA The August 8, 1897, edition of the San Francisco Call reports the headline “Mourning in Marysville: Passing to Adoniram Judson Batchelder, a Pioneer of Yuba County.” Yuba County mourns the loss of an efficient officer and ex-representative in the State Legislature, while Marysville is in deep gloom over

1824-Present      Judson Press and Publications District of Columbia/Pennsylvania DC/PA In June of 1824 Adoniram Judson was imprisoned when the British invaded Burma thus beginning the First Anglo-Burmese War. His confinement would last for 21 months and during that time, Baptists in America began their publication ministry. The Judsons, aided by missionary George Hough, plus