JUDSON
JUENGLING
JUDSON, Edward Z. C, author, was born in
Philadelphia. Pa., in 18-22. He shipped as cabin
boy against the wishes of his father, who was a
lawyer, and the next year entered the government
service as apprentice on board a naan-of-war. In
1835 he rescued from drowning the occupants of
a small boat that had been run down by a ferry-
boat in the East river. New York harbor, and
in acknowledgment of liis bravery he was com-
missioned a midshipman in the U.S. navy by
President Van Buren. During the civil war he
was chief of scouts against the Indians, and was
given the rank of colonel in the volunteer service.
His first literary effort was a story of adventure
called •' Captain's Pig,"' which appeared in the
Knickerbocker Magazine in 1838. He established
Xed Bnntline's Own in 1848, and was indicted
for inciting the Astor Place riot through the
columns of his paper in 1849, and was sentenced
to a fine and imprisonment. After one year in
prison he continued his literary work for weekly
newspapers, and his income is said to have been
upwards of $20,000 a year. He was a well-known
lecturer on temperance and sjjeaker for the "Whig
and Republican parties till 1884, when he sup-
ported Grover Cleveland. He died in Stamford,
Delaware county, X.Y.. July 16, 1886.
JUDSON, Emily (Chubbuck), author, was born in Eaton, Madison county, N.Y., Aug. 22, 1817. She attended the district school in winter and because of her parents' poverty worked in a woollen mill in the summer. She became a teacher in 1834 and in 1840 entered the Utica Female seminary as a pupil. She engaged in literary work and was a contributor to the Xew Mirror, a magazine, 1841-44. She was married, June 2, 1846, to the Rev. Adoniram Judson, at Hamilton, X.Y., and sailed with him for Am- herst, Burmah, India, July 11, arriving Nov. 30, 1846. Upon the death of her husband in 1850 she returned to New York, where she resumed her literary work and wrote under the pen hame " Fanny Forrester."' She is the author of: Charles Luui (1841); The Great Secret {\Si2); Allen Lucas (1843); My Two Sisters (1844); Alderbrook (3 vols., 1846); Trippings in Author Land (1846); A Memoir of Sarah B. Judson (1848); Olio of Domestic Verses (1852); Kathayan Slave (1853). She also collected the material for her husband's biography published in 1854. Her life was writ- ten by Asaiiel C. Kendrick (1860). She died at Hamilton, N.Y., June 1, 1854.
JUDSON, Harry Pratt, educator, was born at Jamestown, NY., Dec. 20, 1849; son of the Rev. Lyman P. and Abigail C. (Pratt) Judson, grand- son of Silas Judson and of Harry and Susan (Cleveland) Pratt, and a descendant of John Pratt, one of the party of th« Rev. Thomas Hooker, who removed from Massachusetts Bay and settled in
Connecticut in 1036, and of Moses Cleaveland.wha
came to Massachusetts from England about 1635,
He was graduated from Williams college in 1870,.
was a teacher and the principal of the higk
school at Troy, N.Y., 1870-85, professor of history
at the Universit}' of Minnesota, 1885-92; lecturer
on pedagogy there, 1886-92; and became head
professor of political science and dean of the
faculties of art, literature and science at the
University of Chicago in 1892. He was elected a
member of the American Historial association.
He was one of the ninetj^-seven judges who
served as a board of electors in October, 1900, in
determining the names entitled to a place in the
Hall of Fame, New York universitj'. He re-
ceived the degree of LL.D. from Williams college
in 1893. He became co-editor of the A/nerican
Historical Review in 1895, and is the author of:
History of the Troy Citizens' Corps (1884);
Ccesa7s Army (1885); Europe in the Nineteenth
Century (1894); The Growth of the American
Nation (1895); TJie Higher Education as a Train-
ing for Business (1896); The Latin in English
(1896); The Mississijijii FaZ/ey (in Shaler's " United
States of America," 1894); The Young American
(1897); The Government of Illinois (1899). and
historical and educational articles in period-
icals.
JUDSON, Sarah (Hall) Boardman, mission- ary, was born in Alstead, N.H., Nov. 4, 1803; daughter of Ralph and Abiah Hall. She was married to the Rev. George Dana Boardman in 1825 and sailed with him for Calcutta, reaching that port, Dec. 13, 1825. She spent two years in studying the Burmese language, and in April, 1827, removed to Amherst, Burmah, where a mission was established. They subsequently re- sided in Maulmain and in Tavoy, where in 1828, she started a girl's school. Her husband died, Feb. 11, 1831, but she continued to carrj- on the missionary work, so far as her healtli permitted. She was married to the Rev. Adoniram Judson, June 10, 1834, and removed with him to Maul- main, the capital of the province. Her ill-health necessitated a sea-voyage and she embarked with her husband and children for the United States. April 26, 1845, and died on ship-board. She translated the New Testament into the Peguan language; and a portion of " Pilgrim's Progress" and about twenty hymns into Burmese. She died in the harbor of Jamestown, St. Helena Island. Sept. 1, 1845.
JUENQLINQ, Frederick, engraver, was born in New York city, Oct. 8, 1846. He studied art in New York cit}', and engaged in wood engrav- ing, principally on Harper's and Frank Leslie's publications, and introduced the method of pre- serving the effects of the artist's drawing in the reproduction on wood. He continued his study
