Judd, Charles H.

JUDD, BARTLETT, WORDEN

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Date: 1/28/2003 at 13:56:31

Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.
Charles H. Judd, who is now so efficiently serving as justice of the peace in Clinton, was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on the 4th of July, 1847, a son of Rev. Damon and Susan (Bartlett) Judd. The father devoted his life to the work of the ministry. Our subject was reared and educated in Concord, New Hampshire, receiving a diploma from the Worthington & Warner's Business College, whither the family removed during his childhood, and there he served as apprenticeship in a woolen mill. At the age of twenty-three he went to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and later removed to Carbondale, that state, where he worked in the car shops of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad for some time. He was next employed as a lock tender on the Champlain canal at Whitehall, New York. 
Desiring to see something of the west, Mr. Judd then went to Nebraska, and spent some years at various places this side of the Mississippi. In 1889 he located at Clinton, Iowa, where he worked as a journeyman plasterer and bricklayer until 1895, when he was elected constable on the Republican ticket, and served as such until his election as justice of the peace in 1900. He is now filling the latter office in a most creditable and acceptable manner. 
In 1896 Mr. Judd married Miss Edna Worden, of Alden, Illinois, and to them have been born two children, Quincy and Mary. His political support is always given the men and measures of the Republican party, and he has taken quite an active and prominent part in promoting its interests. Fraternally he belongs to the subordinate lodge and encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has served as representative of the grand lodge of the state. He and his wife have taken the Rebekah degrees, and he is also a member of the American Yoemen, and the Lumber City Camp, Woodmen of the World, and is now serving as clerk in the last named lodge.