Sylvester Judd

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Sylvester Judd (July 23, 1813 – January 26, 1853), was an American novelist.

[edit] Biography

Sylvester Judd was born on July 23, 1813,^[1] in Westhampton, Massachusetts to Sylvester Judd and Apphia Hall. He studied at Hopkins Academy in Hadley, Massachusetts, graduated from Yale College in 1836, and from Harvard Divinity School in 1840. He was ordained a Unitarian minister on 1 October 1840, becoming pastor of a church in Augusta, Maine. On August 31, 1841 Sylvester married Jane E. Williams the daughter of Reuel Williams. They had three children.

[edit] Works

• 1838: A Young Man's Account of his Conversion from Calvinism
• 1845: Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi, a Transcendentalist novel (revised 1851)
• 1850: Philo: An Evangeliad, a religious poem
• 1850: Richard Edney and the Governor's Family: A Rus-Urban Tale
• 1854: The Church, in a Series of Discourses
• The White Hills (a novel unpublished during his lifetime)

He also produced a large number of sermons and religious addresses.

[edit] References

• Eliot, Samuel A. Heralds of a Liberal Faith. Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1910. (pp. 301-307) googlebooks Retrieved May 4, 2008
• Sylvester Judd (the present subject's father), Thomas Judd and His Descendants, J. &. L. Metcalf, Northampton, 1856.
• Arethusa Hall, Life and Character of Sylvester Judd, Boston, 1854.