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JUDD, SYLVESTER (1813–1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUDD, See also:SYLVESTER (1813–1853) See also:American Unitarian See also:clergy-See also:man and author, was See also:born in Westhampton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 23rd of See also:July 1813. He See also:bore the same name as his See also:father and grandfather; the former (1789–1860) made an especial study of See also:local See also:history of the towns of the See also:Connecticut valley, and wrote a History of See also:Hadley (1863). The son lived in See also:Northampton after his tenth See also:year, was converted in a revival there in x826, graduated from Yale in 1836, and taught in 1836 at 1 Other forms make him a Danite, and consider the passage in See also:Genesis (xlix. 17) a prophecy of the traitor. Templeton, See also:Mass., where he first met Unitarians and soon found the See also:solution of his theological difficulties in their views. He entered the Harvard divinity school, from which he graduated in 1840. In the same year he was ordained pastor of the Unitarian See also:church of See also:Augusta, See also:Maine, where he died on the 26th of See also:January 1853. His widest reputation was as the author of See also:Margaret, a See also:Tale of the Real and the Ideal,including Sketches of a See also:place not before described, called See also:Mons Christi (1845; revised 1851), written to exhibit the errors of Calvinistic and all trinitarian See also:theology, and the evils of See also:war, intemperance, See also:capital See also:punishment, the See also:prison See also:system of the See also:time, and the See also:national treatment of the See also:Indians. This See also:story, published anonymously, attracted much See also:attention by its true descriptions of New See also:England See also:life and scenery as well as by its author's See also:earnest purpose. See also:Richard Edney and the See also:Governor's See also:Family (185o) is in much the same vein as Margaret. A poem entitled See also:Philo, an Evangeliad (185o) is a versified See also:defence of See also:Unitarianism. He published, besides, The Church, in a See also:Series of Discourses (1854).

As a preacher and pastor he urged the desirability of See also:

infant See also:baptism. He lectured frequently on See also:international See also:peace and opposed See also:slavery. See See also:Arethusa See also:Hall, Life and See also:Character of the Rev. Sylvester Judd (See also:Boston, 1857) published anonymously.

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