Judd, Calvin

JUDD, PLATT, ROOD, BALDWIN, SHADLE, WOODBURY

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Date: 2/10/2003 at 22:51:18

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

CALVIN JUDD.

One of Camanche’s old and most highly esteemed citizens is Calvin Judd, who was born on the 14th of May, 1824, in Naugatuck, a part of the town of Waterbury, New Haven county, Connecticut, and is the oldest and only living representative in a family of five children, whose parents were Asel and Martha (Platt) Judd. The father was a wool-carder by trade and followed that occupation throughout life, first working in a factory for others and later establishing a factory of his own for carding wool. He died in the east at the age of thirty-eight years, and his wife, who long survived him, and died in the east, at the age of eighty-four.

Calvin Judd attended the common schools of his native state until twelve years of age, when he commenced working in the carding factory belonging to his father, and was thus employed until coming west. On the 22d of October, 1848, he was united in marriage with Miss Jane E. Rood, a daughter of John and Hannah (Baldwin) Rood, in whose family were fifteen children, twelve of whom grew to man and womanhood and were married.

In 1856 Mr. Judd came to Camanche, Clinton county, Iowa, arriving her on the 12th of March. Having learned the carpenter’s trade in New Haven, Connecticut, he took up that occupation on coming here and has made it his life work, having been identified with the erection of many buildings in Camanche and throughout the surrounding country. During the Civil war he rented a farm for two years and operated the same in addition to work at his trade.

Mrs. Judd died May 14, 1894, and was laid to rest in the Camanche cemetery. She was the mother of five children, all of whom are living, namely: (1) Charles C. is represented on another page of this volume. (2) Oscar P., who is now a resident of Omaha, Nebraska, and district superintendent of the Remington Typewriter Company, married Minnie Harrison, of Davenport, Iowa, and they have four children. (3) Horace L., a veteran of the Spanish-American war, a teamster of Moline, Illinois, married Mrs. Celia Shadle, widow of Harvey Shadle. (4) Jane E. is the wife of Edward N. Woodbury, a native of Massachusetts and a plumber of Clinton, Iowa. They have two children. (5) Laura M. is now teaching in the public schools of Clinton.

Politically Mr. Judd was originally a Whig, but since the organization of the Republican party has never failed to vote that ticket. He is a member of the Masonic lodge, No. 60, of Camanche, and of the Presbyterian church of Clinton, to which his wife also belonged. He is widely and favorably known as a man of strict integrity and sterling worth, and is held in the highest regard by his many friends.