Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Judd, J. L. 1845 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 31, 2007, 12:17 pm Author: Emma E. Forter (1917) J. L. JUDD. J. L. Judd, one of the real pioneers of Marshall county and for many years a well-known farmer and stockman of Bigelow township, now living retired in the pleasant village of Irving, is an honored veteran of the Civil War and a native of the state of Ohio, born in Lorain county, that state, August 12, 1845, a son of Rasmus and Phoebe (Hall) Judd, New Englanders, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, who became pioneers of Lorain county, Ohio, and there spent their last days, substantial farming people. Of their six children, but three are now living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Garwood H. Judd, who is a miner in Colorado. Mr. Judd was in a heavy artillery regiment in 1863 and in 1865 he was in an infantry regiment. He was discharged at Salisbury, North Carolina. Reared on a pioneer farm in Ohio, J. L. Judd received his elementary schooling in a little old log school house in the neighborhood of his home and was living there when the Civil War broke out. In 1863, at Brighton, Ohio, he enlisted for service in Company K, One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and later was attached to the One Hundred and Fiftieth Heavy Artillery, with which command he served until mustered out at the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service, Mr. Judd, in company with several of his army comrades, entered college at Poughkeepsie, New York, and after a comprehensive course there, in 1870, came to Kansas and walked over from Atchison to Marshall county. He presently bought a quarter of a section of land in Bigelow township, this county, paying for the same five dollars an acre, and then began working as a farm hand, clerking in a store at Irving and doing such other labor as his hands could find to do in order to earn the money with which to complete the sale, building up his farm in the meantime as well as he could. He built his dwelling house of stone quarried from his own land and broke up his land with a double yoke of oxen. Indians still were quite numerous here at that, time and Mr. Judd recalls that they were great beggars. His nearest market for grain was at Marysville and he had to haul his wheat twenty miles on the old trails across the hills. As he prospered in his farming operations, Mr. Judd added to his original quarter section until he became the owner of a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres in section 17, which he still owns, besides a considerable tract of pasture land in Pottawatomie county, where his son, G. H. Judd, is engaged in cattle feeding. Mr. Judd's wife, who was Lillian Twaddle, born in Huron county, Ohio, died in 1913, at the age of fifty-nine years. To Mr. and Mrs. Judd six children were born, namely: Daisy, who married J. Sheppard and is living at Irving; Charles, of Grand Island, Nebraska; Garwood, who is at home; Bessie, who died in her girlhood; Guy, who also died in his youth, and Laura, who married Owen Jones, and who died in March, 1917. Mr. Judd is a Democrat and has ever given a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but has never been a seeker after public office. He is a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic and has ever taken an active interest in the affairs of that patriotic order. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions by Emma E. Forter Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/marshall/bios/judd519gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb