Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Judy, Adam H.  September 15, 1853 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Adam H. Judy, of Gunnison county, who owns and manages a fine ranch of four

hundred and forty acres on Ohio creek, thirteen miles north of the county seat,

is a native of Pendleton county, West Virginia, born on September 15, 1853, and

the son of Martin and Christina (Harper) Judy, who were also born in that state.

 Living in the portion of old Virginia that remained loyal to the Union during

the Civil war, and as a reward for its loyalty was raised to the dignity and

consequence of separate statehood, and not far from its eastern boundary, he

witnessed in his boyhood all the horrors and bitterness of civil strife at close

quarters, wherein families were divided and homes rent asunder, and shared as

well the disadvantages in the way of lack of early education and commercial and

industrial opportunities incident to such a condition.  His parents were reared

and married in that county and there the father passed his life, dying on the

old homestead, which is now the home of the mother, in January, 1885.  He

sympathized with the North in the contest between the sections, but

notwithstanding this he was drafted into the Confederate army and served two

years under its banners.  Then he procured a substitute, and during the

remainder of the war was a scout for the Federal forces although not regularly

enlisted in the army.  Thirteen children were born in the household, ten of whom

are living, Adam being the first born.  He grew to manhood on the farm and

attended when he could the district schools in the neighborhood, which was not

often owing to the disturbed condition and consequent depression of the section.

 At the age of twenty-one he started a store at Circleville, in his native

state, and also dealt in live stock, buying and selling horses and cattle on a

scale that was extensive for that part of the country.  After seven years of

successful operations in these lines at that place he sold out there and in the

spring of 1883 came to Colorado, soon afterward taking up one hundred and sixty

acres of land on Mill creek, about six miles above where he now lives, and which

is still known as the Judy Park.  He later abandoned his claim and returned to

Virginia, where during the next three years he kept a store at Union Mills,

Fluvanna county, Virginia.  But the Western fever was still strong in his system

and could not be eliminated.  So he returned to Gunnison county in this state in

1887, and for a number of years thereafter made it his summer home and passed

the winters in southern Kansas, southwestern Missouri and Indian Territory.  He

has been a permanent resident of the Ohio creek country since 1890.  Purchasing

his present ranch in 1897, he has since then made that his home, having

previously owned and occupied the ranch now belonging to and the home of John C.

Harris.  His principal crop on his ranch is hay, and he also raises stock,

chiefly cattle, in large numbers.  On November 22, 1874, he was married to Miss

Ruhanna Phares, of West Virginia.  She died in that state, leaving four

children, Charles P. Sallie T., John M. and Annie. On December 5, 1889, Mr. Judy

married a second wife, Miss Nettie Nelson, also a native of West Virginia, but

reared in Kansas.  They have had eight children, three of whom are living,

Robert B., Lillie S. and Alvin C.  Those who have died are Bessie and Jessie,

twins, and three who passed away in infancy, named Earl and Pearl, twins, and

Martha, a twin to Robert B.  Politically Mr. Judy is a Democrat and fraternally

a United Workman belonging to the lodge of the order at Gunnison.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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