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John Scherer, of Los Angeles, California, Company G. Shot in the heart and killed at Marilao river on March 27th.
William Carroll, of Frontenae, Company D. Shot in the head and killed at Marilao river on March 27th.
Alvah L. Dix of Independence, Company D. Shot in the head and killed at Guiguinta river on March 29th.
Samuel M. Wilson, of Salina, Company M. Shot in the head and killed at Guiguinta river on March 29th.
Adrian A. Hatfield of Topeka, Company I. Wounded in the neek at Marilao river on March 27th, and died in the hospital at Manila on March 31st.
Joseph A. Wahl, of Lawrence, Company H. Wounded in the neck at Marilao river on March 27th, and died in the hospital at Manila on March 31st.
Resil Manahan, of Topeka, Company A. Shot and killed at Calumpit on April 26th.
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Henry H. Morrison, of Salina, Company M. Shot in the ehest at Apalit on April 27th, and died in the hospital at Manila on April 29th.
Merton A. Wilcox, of Lawrenee, Company H. Shot in the stomach and killed at Santo Tomas on May 4th.
William Sullivan, of Topeka, Company A. Shot in the groin and killed at San Fernando on May 24th.
Ernest Ryan, of Abilene, Company L. Wounded in the abdomen at San Fernando on May 24th, and died in the hospital at Manila on May 25th.
Albert Ferugs, of Yates Center, Company E. Died in San Fran- cisco on June 17th.
Orville R. Knight, of Fort Scott, Company F. Died in San Fran- eiseo on June 24th,
Louis Moon, of Kansas City, Kansas, Company B. Died at San Francisco on June 24th.
Harry Pepper of Topeka, Company L. Died in San Francisco on June 26th.
Clifford K. Greenough, of Bennington, Company L. Died in San Francisco on June 24th.
Cecil Flowers, of Kansas City, Company L. Died in San Fran- cisco on July 22nd. and buried at the Presidio on July 23rd.
Wilson II. McAllister, of Salina, Company M. Died in San Fran- cisco on July 10th, and remains shipped to Miltonvale on July 12th.
John H. Bartlett, of Watson, Company F. Died at San Francisco on July 14th.
Elmer MeIntyre of Neosho Falls, Company E. Died in San Fran- eiseo on August 24th, and interred in Presidio cemetery on August 28th. Louis Ferguson, of Kansas City, Kansas, Company B. Died at Manila on December 24th.
Dalias Day, Paola, Company I. Died at his home in Paola, Kan- sas on November 2nd.
William Vaneil, of Fort Scott, Company I. Died on board trans- port "Indiana" on December 7th.
Raymond B. Dawes, of Leavenworth, Company C. Died at Honolulu on November 22nd.
Edward A. Rethemeyer, of Topeka, Company A. Died of small pox at Manila on January 8, 1899.
Eteyl P. Blair, of Topeka, Company A. Died of smallpox at Manila on January 11, 1899.
John D. Young, of Wamego, Company A. Died of smallpox at Manila on January 15, 1899. Charles Graves, of Centralia, Company C. Died in hospital at Honolulu on November 25, 1898.
Bert Cornett, of Torento, Company E. Died of smallpox at Manila on January 3, 1899.
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William B. Bash, of Fort Scott, Company F. Died of smallpox at Manila on January 6, 1899.
Powhattan T. Haekett, of Fort Scott, Company F. Died of small- pox at Manila on January 9, 1899.
Louis R. Badger, of Kansas City, Kansas, Company F. Died of smallpox at Manila, January 10, 1899.
Benjamin W. Squires, of Junction City, Company L. Died of smallpox at Manila on January 14, 1899.
Norman E. Hand, of Abilene, Company L. Died of smallpox at Manila on January 18, 1899.
David L. Campbell, of Junetion City, Company L. Died of small- pox at Manila on January 19, 1899.
Charles B. Snodgrass, of Minneapolis, Company B. Died of small- pox at Manila on February 2, 1899.
Fred Maxwell, of Richmond, Company K. Died of smallpox at Manila on February 23, 1899.
Sim P. Barber, of Abilene, Company L. Died of smallpox at Manila on March 27, 1899.
Fred Maxfield, of Kansas City, Kansas, Company B. Died at Manila on June 12, 1899.
Guy Nebergall, of Newton, Company I. Died of disease at Manila on May 5, 1899.
Isaac C. Cooper, of Kansas City, Kansas, corporal of Company B. Died of smallpox at Manila on February 1, 1899.
John M. Ingenthron, of Westphalia, Company L. Died of disease on way home on the transport "Tartar."
George W. Mills, of Silver Lake, Company I. Died of disease in the general hospital at San Francisco after the return of the regiment.
THE MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
When the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers were mistered into service at the fair grounds in Topeka on May 13, 1898, the following men were put in charge of it, with the rank, name, age, occupation, date of muster and residence given :
Colonel-Frederick Funston; 33; newspaper man; May 11th; Iola.
Lieutenant Colonel-Edward C. Little; 39; lawyer; May 10th; Abilene.
Major -- Frank HI. Whitman; 27; second lieutenant U. S. A .; May 10th, U. S. A.
Major-Wilder S. Metealf; 42; broker; May 11th; Lawrence.
Adjutant -- William A. DeFord; 26; lawyer; May 9th; Ottawa.
Quartermaster-Lafayette C. Smith; 50; lawyer; May 10th; Waconda.
Surgeon-John A. Rafter; 41; surgeon; May 13th; Holton.
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Assistant surgeon-Charles S. Iloffman ; 32; physician; May 13th; Columbus.
Assistant surgeon-Henry D. Smith; 23; physician; May 13th ; Washington.
Chaplain-John G. Shileman; 40; minister; May 12th; Phillipsburg.
Sergeant Major-Frederick R. Dodge; 35; bookkeeper; May 13th ; Leavenworth.
Quartermaster sergeant-James A. Young ; 26; manager; May 12th ; Baldwin.
Chief musician-Charles E. Gormley; 26; musician; May 12th ; Topeka.
Principal musician-Earl H. Dryer; 24; musician; May 12th ; Topeka.
Principal musician-Arthur E. Ellison; 21; musician; May 12th ; Topeka.
Hospital steward-Coryell Faulkner; 25; physician; May 13; Topeka.
Hospital steward-William E. Hungerford; 36; pharmacist; May 13th ; Meriden.
Hospital steward-Seth A. Ifammel; 19; pharmacist; May 13th; Topeka.
Company A, Topeka, mustered in as company on May 9th-Cap- tain, John E. Towers, Topeka ; first lieutenant, Frank J. Frank, Topeka ; second lieutenant, Everett E. Huddleston, Topeka.
Company B, Kansas City, Kansas, mustered in as company on May 9th-Captain Fred E. Buchan, Kansas City; first lieutenant, Charles B. Walker, Kansas City; second lieutenant, Ervin B. Showalter, Kan- sas City.
Company C, Leavenworth, nmstered in as a company on May 13th -Captain, William S. Albright, Leavenworth; first lieutenant, Harry H. Seckler, Leavenworth; second lieutenant, John Haussermann, Leavenworth.
Company D, Pittsburg and Girard, mustered in as a company on May 11th-Captain, Henry B. Orwig; first lieutenant, Williams J. Watson, Pittsburg; second lieutenant, Thomas K. Ritchie, Pittsburg.
Company E, Garnett, mustered in as a company on May 10th- Captain, Charles M. Christy, Waverly; first lieutenant, Daniel F. Craig, Garnett ; seeond lieutenant, Philip S. Ray, Yates Center.
Company F, Fort Scott, mustered in as a company on May 12th- Captain, Charles S. Martin, Fort Scott; first lieutenant, William A. Green, Fort Scott; second lieutenant, Harry W. Shideler, Fort Seott.
Company G, Independence, mustered in as a company on May 12th -Captain, David S. Elliott, Independenee ; first lieutenant, Howard A.
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Scott, Independence; second lieutenant, William A. McTaggart, Independence.
Company H, Lawrence, mustered in as a company on May 9th- Captain, Adna G. Clarke, Lawrence; first lieutenant, Albert H. Krause, Lawrence; second lieutenant, Alfred C. Alford, Lawrence.
Company I, Osawatomie, mustered in as a company on May 12th- Captain, Charles S. Flanders, Osawatomie; first lieutenant, Walber P. Hull, Topeka ; second lieutenant, Arden W. Flanders, Osawatomie.
Company K, Ottawa, mustered in as a company on May 10th- Captain, Edmund Boltwood, Ottawa; first lieutenant, John F. Hall, Pleasanton ; second lieutenant, Robert J. Parker, Ottawa.
Company L, Abilene; first lieutenant, Edgar A. Fry, Abilene ; second lieutenant, William A. Callahan, Junction City.
Company M, Salina, mustered in as a company on May 10th- Captain, William H. Bishop, Salina; first lieutenant, Edward L. Glas- gow. Salina; second lieutenant, Ernest H. Agnew, Minneapolis.
THE BOYS FROM KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.
Company B, First Battalion-Charles R. Walker, captain, com- manding company.
Jacob R. Whisner, first lieutenant, with company.
Benjamin E. Northrup, second lieutenant, with company.
Alfred C. Alford, first lientenant, killed in action.
Fred E. Buchan, captain, discharged to re-enlist.
Fred D. Heisler, first sergeant.
Harry G. Smith, quartermaster sergeant.
Sergeants-Judd N. Bridgman, Claud Spurlock, Arthur Page Jackson and Lemnel D. Cummins.
Corporals-Fred A. Hecker, Bain Dennis, James H. Cook, Peter J. Nugent, Jacob Hammer, Robert T. Boyd, Peter M. Sorenson, Orno E. Tylor, William B. Trembley, Dana C. Pease, Charles T. Baker, Charles I. Lowry and George W. Orr.
John A. Johnson, artificer.
Musicians-Otis W. Groff and George Bethemeyer.
Privates-Frederick A. Cook, Clarence Chase, Richard Mapes, Jesse Helm, Harvey S. Harris, William R. Hinkle, Charles R. Holman, William H. Hoffman, Daniel S. Hewitt, William L. Johnson, Robert S. Johnson, Michael Upetich, Spudgeon G. Matson, Alexander M. Mitchell, Charles M. Pease, Harlie Pearson, Thomas E. Ridenour, Wilson B. Smith, William J. Saunders, Charles Wingert, James E. Williamson and John Woodward.
Wounded and sent home-Edward D. Walling, corporal; Charles A. Kelson, artificer; John W. Gillilan, Edward Crane, Marvin J. Powell and Charles D. Wait, privates.
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Discharged at San Francisco on account of disability-Eugene Davies, sergeant; Frank E. Van Fossen and Charles K. Wood, corporals ; William A. Crowell, George MeMeaehin, Edward B. Hoppin, Manty Yeaky, Frank A. C. Shellhardt, Frank L. Heyler, John M. Boyle, Dow G. Burroughs, Charles Debeque, Edward W. Ellis, John N. Benson, Francis McCrea, George E. Voss, Harry Lancaster, George M. Davison, Elmer D. Mabry, Hugh H. Smart and Burt J. Stuart, privates.
Discharged by favor- Jesse F. Fairleigh, private.
Discharged to re-enlist-Frank Answald, sergeant; Edward Barret, Charles Dingle, Bert K. Donohue, William F. Duensing, John H. Gallag- her, Hugh MeMeaehling, Stephen Munieh, Claud S. Phillips, Sylvester F. Rothwell. Lewis J. Rouse and Elmer Urie, privates.
Discharged, remaining in Manila-Frank Freeman, Persy Gibson and Michael J. Lambert, privates.
Discharged, returning with the regiment-Edward White, private.
Died of disease-Isaac Cooper, artificer ; Frederick Sharland, cook ; Louis Moon, Lonis Wren Ferguson, Charles B. Snodgrass and Leroy Maxfield, privates.
·Killed in action-Morris J. Cohen, sergeant; Ivers J. Howard, private.
Wounded in action-Claud Spurlock, sergeant; Daniel S. Ilewitt, Elmer Urie. Harvey S. Harris, Charles Pease, Peter M. Sorenson, Alexander M. Mitchell and Wilson R. Smith, privates.
Wounded but not reported-John H. Gallagher, private.
Deserted-Louis Arwood and Jackson C. Copeland, privates.
On the sick list-Charles W. Forlyle, Lewis H. Youser, George C. Robinson, Benjamin F. Zimmerman, Jacob Guffy, John W. Prine and William Litchfield, privates.
CHAPTER XXIII.
EARLY TIME CHARACTERS.
THE "PILL BOX" AND DR. ROOT-ALFRED GRAY-GOVERNOR ROBIN- SON-STATE GEOLOGIST MUDGE-BYRON JUDD-THE DOCTORS SPECK- MRS. C. I. H. NICHOLS-GOVERNOR MCGREW-OTIS B. GUNN-COLONEL A. C. DAVIS-JUDGE ISAAC B. SHARP-COLONEL G. W. VEALE-LAST TO DESERT QUINDARO-MARY TENNEY GRAY-JUDGE JESSE COOPER-CAP- TAIN THOMAS CROOK-SAMUEL W. DAY-FRANK H. BETTON-TABITHA N. THOMAS-JAMES G. DOUGHERTY-A KANSAS ARTIST-LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WOMEN-REV. ALEXANDER STERRETT -- "MOTHER" STURGES- THREE WYANDOTTE FOUNDERS-JAMES R. PARR AND OTHERS.
Adjoining the factory of the Viking Refrigerator Company at the northeast corner of Oakland avenue and Fourth street, there stood many years a small, square cottage, that was conspicuous only for its flaming bright red color. This little house had a history. In 1857 it was landed at the levee in the shape of a readymade house from a steamboat, only requiring a few nails to be driven in to make it a model western mansion. The house was imported by Dr. Joseph P. Root, Sr., from the cast, and was used as a dwelling for himself and family. It was first erected in the center of a big cornfield, now the southeast corner of Fourth street and Nebraska avenue, and was occupied by Doctor Root until 1870. When the Doctor was appointed minister to Chili the house was moved to its later location.
THE "PILL BOX" AND DR. ROOT.
It was the first house erected in old Wyandotte by a white man who had not married into an Indian family, and for years social and politi- cal meetings were held in it. It was known as the "Pill Box", on account of its size, and further because it contained many pills that were dispensed among the carly inhabitants by Doctor Root. Its cellar was a way station on the celebrated underground railway, which many a fugitive traveled, and almost daily it harbored one or more of those poor unfortunates.
It was the custom of Doctor Root to call in all of his old friends on Christmas and give a fine dinner. At that time it was considered a
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Inxury to be able to serve eove oysters as the first course. Thus it was that this little house became famous in the territory for the splendid hospitality dispensed therein. The stories of the social and political gatherings that were held in it would make an interesting volume des- scriptive of the social life of that charming period, and of the cirele of men and women of old Wyandotte, of whom there are but a few with us now to recall the days of the "Pill Box." And it is to these men and women of old Wyandotte that this chapter is devoted.
Dr. Joseph Pomeroy Root, who was one of the early physicians of Wyandotte, then a part of Leavenworth county, was born at Greenwich, Massachusetts, April 23, 1826, and died at Kansas City, Kansas, July 20, 1885. He was a member of the Connecticut-Kansas colony, better known as the Beecher Bible and Rifle Company, which settled at Wabaunsee. He organized Free State forees and in every way identi- fied himself with the early history of the territory. As chairman of the Free State executive committee, he located the road from Topeka to Nebraska City, thereby securing a safer route of travel for Free State immigrants. IIe was sent east as agent to obtain arms and other assistance and was very successful. On his return he located at Wyan- dotte and was there elected a member of the conneil. He was lieutenant governor of the state in 1861; served in the Second Kansas as surgeon, and was medical director of the Army of the Frontier. At the elose of the war he returned to Wyandotte and resumed the practice of his profession, but was appointed minister to Chili in 1870. At the close of his term of office he returned again to Wyandotte, and continued there until his death, July 20, 1885.
ALFRED GRAY.
Mr. Gray was one of the pioneers of Quindaro and a man of great force in the early days of Kansas. He was born in Evans, Erie county, New York, December 5, 1830, and was a son of Isaiah and May (Mor- gan) Gray. He worked on the farm in summer and went to school in winter until 1847, when he embarked as a sailor before the mast on Lake Erie. At the age of nineteen he returned to school, and by teach- ing and other labor maintained himself at Westfield Academy, New York, and Girard Academy, Pennsylvania. In 1853 and 1854 he read law, graduating at Albany, and started into practice at Buffalo. In March, 1857, he came to Kansas, settling at Quindaro; engaged in farm- ing from 1858 until 1873; served as a director of the State Agricultural Society from 1866 until 1870; in 1872 was elected first secretary of the present State Board of Agriculture, in which position he remained until his death, January 23, 1880, earning a wide reputation by the style of published reports which he originated and the success of the display Kansas made at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876.
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At York, New York, Mr. Gray married Miss Sarah C. Bryce, May 1, 1855. On April 19, 1862, he was mustered into the army as a regi- mental quartermaster with the Fourth Kansas and shortly after was transferred to the Tenth, and later to the Fifth. He was detailed by General Grant, June 30, 1863, for service at Vicksburg, remaining until March 24. 1864, when he resigned on account of ill health. He held various positions in the Free State party and was elected to the first state legislature. December 6, 1859. The state erected a monument to his memory in the Topeka cemetery.
GOVERNOR ROBINSON.
Charles Robinson, the most distinguished citizen of the territory in 1857, afterwards governor of the commonwealth and for many years foremost in Kansas, was a resident of Wyandotte county and a citizen of Quindaro. He was born at Hardwick, Worchester county, Massa- chusetts, July 21, 1818; became a physician and at one time had for a partner Dr. John G. Holland ("Timothy Titcomb"). In 1849, soon after the gold discoveries in California, he set out for the newly dis- covered El Dorado, being surgeon of one of the early pioneer parties of California emigrants. On his arrival in California, after a short time spent in prospecting and mining, he settled, as near as the times and the surroundings would permit, at Sacramento, and there opened an eating house. Trouble soon broke out between the squatters and a set of later
speculators who coveted their claims. The former held their elaims under the United States pre-emption laws then in force, and else- where in the country universally observed ; the speculators claimed title to the entire site of the embryo city by virtue of purchase from Captain Sutter, who held a Mexican-Spanish title to 99,000 square miles of Cali- fornia land, the boundaries or location of which had never been sur- veved or defined. The contest for possession, after vain endeavors on the part of the squatters to await the decision of the courts, culminated in an open war for possession on the one side and ejectment on the other. Doctor Robinson beeame the adviser and acknowledged leader of the squatters in their contest for their rights.
The "squatter riots," as they were termed, resulted in several serions eneounters, in which many were wounded and a few lost their lives. The most serions conflict resulted in the death of the mayor of Sacramento, on the one side, and the dangerous wounding of Doctor Robinson, on the other. Robinson, while still suffering from his wounds, was indicted for murder, assault with intent to kill and con- spiracy ; held a prisoner, pending his trial, for ten weeks aboard a prison ship; was tried before the district court at Sacremento and acquitted. During his imprisonment he was nominated and elected to the Cali- fornia legislature from the Sacramento distriet. Ile took a leading
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part in the legislative proceedings of the succeeding session, and was one of the prominent supporters of John C. Fremont, who was elected as United States senator during the session. On his return to Sacramento, he published a daily Free Soil paper a short time. On July 1, 1851, he left California and set sail for "the states," reaching his home in Fitchburg in the fall of 1851, and there resuming the practice of medicine, which he continued until 1854 with great success. About the time of the organization of the Emigrant Aid Society Dr. Robinson published a series of letters concerning the Kansas country through which he had passed in 1849, which awakened a widespread interest in the unknown land, and drew the attention of the managers of the organization to the writer as an indispensable agent for the prac- tical execution of the proposed work of selecting homes for Free State emigrants, and otherwise carrying out the openly-avowed object of the society, to make Kansas a Free State under the conditions which the Kansas-Nebraska bill had prescribed. He thus became one of the first heralds of Free State emigration to Kansas, and designated to the society as the best objective point for a Free state settlement in the territory the land that lay along the bottoms of the Kansas river near Lawrence. There the first party pitched their tents, and there Doctor Robinson made his own home September 6, 1854, at which time he arrived with his family. With Samnel C. Pomeroy, he was the con- duetor of the second party of New England emigrants-it being the first made up of families who came for bona fide settlement. He ehose his home on Mount Orcad. He was the first governor chosen under the Topeka Constitution, and the first commander-in-chief of the Free State militia. Governor Robinson held the organization with a skill and wisdom peculiarly his own, as a final place of refuge for the Free State men of Kansas, until, with growing strength, they could transform it into a valid form of government under the forms of law. The Wyandotte constitution, under the forced recognition of congress, having been adopted, he was, under its provisions, chosen the first gover- nor of the Free State of Kansas, and in that position organized under the laws the military forces upon a war basis for the final struggle, in which Kansas troops won fresh laurels and imperishable renown. For the cause of freedom in Kansas he suffered imprisonment, destruction of property, defamation of character, and all the minor annoyances which hatred of merit, political ambition, or internecine party strife could engender.
STATE GEOLOGIST MUDGE.
Benjamin Franklin Mudge, distinguished as a geologist, was first a resident of Wyandotte county on his coming to Kansas. He was born in Orriton, Maine, August 11, 1817. In 1818 his parents removed
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to Lyn, Massachusetts, and in the common schools of that city Benja- min received his early education. From the age of fourteen until he was twenty he followed the trade of shoe-making; taught school to pro. eure the means of acquiring a collegiate edueation and was graduated from the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, first in the scientific and afterward in the classical course, in 1840. Afterward he returned to Lynn and began the study of law, being admitted to the bar two years later and immediately entering upon the practice of his profession. He remained a resident of bynn nntil 1859, becoming dur- ing those years thoroughly identified with all the reform movements in that city. He was especially active and earnest in the anti-slavery
and temperance movements, and was elected mayor of the city on the latter issue in 1852. In 1859, having spent eighteen years of his aetive business life in Lynn, he accepted the office of chemist for the Brecken- ridge Coal & Oil Company in Kentucky. On the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion he removed to Kansas and settled at Quindaro, where he remained until he received an appointment as state geologist for Kansas in 1863, from which time until his death, sixteen years later, his whole time and strength were given to scientific researches and in- vestigations in the west. principally in Kansas and Nebraska.
BYRON JUDD.
Among those citizens who contributed to the upbuilding of this community was Byron Judd, the first land agent, a banker for many years, and a faithful publie official. He was born in August, 1824. The town of Otis, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, suggests a lineage looking back towards the Mayflower and the earliest records of the old Bay state, and that town is the locality of Senator Judd's nativity. His father was a farmer, and the boy divided his attention between industrial training at home and scholastic labors in the admirable institu- tions proper to Massachusetts. At the age of twenty he attended the academy at Sonthwiek for one term, and afterwards the State Normal School at Westfield, working on the farm during the summer and teaeh- ing school every winter, so that his body and mind were alike developed by practical work. By his friends in Otis, in spite of the too true aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor, save in his own eoun- try," he was made selectman, township assessor, and a member of the school committee for several years, until, in 1855, he removed to Des Moines, Iowa. There he was deputy recorder for one year. In 1857 he came to Kansas, landing in Wyandotte in the beginning of Novem- ber. The city was then a part of the county of Leavenworth and a place of much business. well suited for the operations of men of the caliber of Mr. Judd. Land agency and banking were the specialties of the comer, and he was soon as busily engaged as could be desired, but
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had sufficient leisure, as will always happen with the most sueeessful men of business, to attend to many publie appointments. He served in many responsible offices with honor to himself and with advantage to the community, as president of the city council and as mayor of the eity of Wyandotte. For five years in succession he was chosen justice of the peace, and for a similar term he was a trustee of Wyandotte town- ship, besides being the Wyandotte county treasurer for four years. Successive marks of honor and trust, reposed in him by his fellow- citizens, indicated Mr. Judd as an eligible man for an appointment as United States commissioner for the district of Kansas, a position filled with conspicuous advantage. In 1871, when the old First National Bank was organized in the city of Wyandotte, Mr. Judd was elected president, and in that capacity, or as cashier, he was connected with the institution for several years. In the year 1872, the people of Wyan- dotte county eleeted their successful fellow citizen, Mr. Judd, to repre- sent them in the state senate, and so favorably were they impressed with his services during the first term, that, before its expiration, he was re- elected, in 1874, for a second term of two years. He was a Demoerat of the Thomas Jefferson school, quite content to allow to others the free- dom of opinion that he claimed for himself, having no sympathy with the "border ruffian" stripe of political experience, and he was eonse- quently able to run ahead of his own ticket in every contest, a recom- mendation of great value to any party in any state in the Union. He was not a church member, but a regular attendant at the Congregational church, having been reared within its discipline. He was not connected with any secret organization, and, indeed, had too little time at his dis- posal to add anything to his multifarious duties. In the year 1865, when he had arrived at the mature age of forty-one, Mr. Judd was married to Mrs. Mary Louise Bartlett, the widow of Don A. Bartlett. She was a daughter of Judge Jesse Cooper, who had come out from Irasburg, Vermont, to become a resident of Wyandotte. His publie labors won honor from all classes and every party ; his name was without reproach. Mr. and Mrs. Judd both lived to a ripe old age, and with mueh pride and satisfaction, witnessed the growth and development of the community from an Indian village to a large city. Mrs. Judd died in 1908 and Mr. Judd's death oceurred the next year. A daughter, Mrs. Sara Judd Greenman, the public librarian in Kansas City, Kan- sas, survives them; another daughter, Miss Emily, died in 1890.
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