Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Judkins, George B. 1837 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  DR. GEORGE B. JUDKINS, the capable physician and surgeon in charge of the
penitentiary at Wetumpka, was born in Montgomery (now Elmore) county, Ala., in
1837, the son of Hon. John C. and Jane E. (Young) Judkins, born in Virginia and
Georgia, respectively. Both came to what is now Elmore county with their
parents, where they were married and where they spent the greater part of their
lives. They both died in 1871. He was a wealthy farmer of limited education, but
a most successful business man, and left a large estate. He represented Macon
county in the legislature in 1866. He was a whig formerly, and opposed
secession, but went with his state as a matter of patriotism. He was the son of
George Judkins, a Virginian by birth, but came at a very early day to Alabama,
and died in Montgomery county. He was of Scotch descent, and a man of great
industry. Bernard Young, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Judkins, was born in
Georgia, and came to what is now Elmore county at an early day. Mr. Judkins
belongs to a family of six sons and six daughters, four of whom beside himself
served with distinction in the late war, namely: James H., adjutant of a
regiment in Clanton's brigade; John C., an officer of Clanton's staff, who died
in 1870; William T., also on Clanton's and Rosseau's staffs, and was killed in
1864. Dr. Judkins was reared on a farm and his early education was obtained
among the common schools of his home, but he graduated from the university of
Virginia in 1851. Afterward he read medicine with Dr. T. B. Ligon, of Macon
county, and then took another course at the Jefferson Medical college, of
Philadelphia, graduating there in 1854, and practiced his profession in
Montgomery county until 1861, when he joined Clanton's cavalry, where he saw
hard service at Pensacola, Montgomery and in northern Alabama, and in 1863 he
was made assistant surgeon of a regiment in Clanton's brigade. He did duty in
the same capacity in several brigades, but with Clanton's brigade at the close
of the war. In all his perilous military career he was never wounded nor
captured. After the war he returned to his old home in Macon county, where he
practiced medicine until 1888, when he was made physician in charge of the
penitentiary at Wetumpka, which position he still holds. He was married in
March, 1864, to Sarah, daughter of Conrad and Eliza J. Webb, natives of Virginia
and South Carolina, respectively. The union was blessed with two
daughters-Sarah, wife of Lamar Smith, and Mary Virginia. Dr. Judkins is a master
Mason, and a censor of the county medical society. He is neither a politician
nor an aspirant for office. His wife is a devout Methodist.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 939
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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