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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
an axe-maker by trade, he is said by an old settler to have been the first man "to pound iron" in Elgin, where he worked at his trade for a year or two. He soon went back to the East, and resumed his trade in New York, where he lived until his death in 1848. He was a brother of Thomas Judd, the well-known pioneer of Sugar Grove Township.
DEXTER C. JUDD (deceased), pioneer farmer, Sugar Grove, Kane County, Ill., was born in Charlemont, Mass., March 11, 1822, and at eight years of age removed with his parents to Warren County, N. Y., where he attained his majority. While a lad he learned the blacksmith trade, working at this trade and axe-making until he came west in 1850, settling in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Ill., Here he purchased a farm, to which he thereafter gave most of his attention, though meanwhile working part of the time at his trade. The later years of his life he spent in Aurora, where he died in 1893. Twice Clerk of Sugar Grove Township, he held other local positions. His wife (born Eliza Brown) was a native of New York, where she was reared and educated. Her death occurred in 1892. The surviving members of this family are Asahel T. and Sarson L. Judd, of Sugar Grove, and Samuel B. and Charles D. Judd of Aurora.
ASAHEL T. JUDD, eldest of the four sons, was born in Warren County, N. Y., March 21. 1844, but was reared to manhood in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, and educated in the local schools. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was in the Union service during three years of the Civil War. His regiment was assigned to the Western Army, and he saw much active service, participating in the battles of Champion Hills, the siege of Vicksburg and many minor engagements. After the war he returned to Kane County and resumed farming. In later years he has given special attention to stock feeding, in which he has been very successful. Mr. Judd is a Mason, and has been affiliated with Aurora Lodge No. 254 since 1865. In 1868 he married Miss Elizabeth Reynolds, daughter of Silas Reynolds, one of the pioneers of Kane County, a sketch of whom is found on another page. Their only child, Ira R., is now connected with a Batavia manufacturing firm.
PERCY G. JUDD, farmer and stock-raiser, Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Ill.; born in the township where he now resides, Nov. 1, 1865, son of Thomas and Electa (Rice) Judd; was educated at the Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial Institute, founded by his father and others, and began his business career as a farmer. In 1886 he went to Sherman County, Kans., where he lived for ten years, and in the meantime was engaged in farming and teaching school. Returning to Illinois in 1896, he engaged in farming and stock-raising in Sugar Grove Township near the place of his birth, but later removed to the vicinity of Roland, Manitoba, where he invested in lands. He served for some time as a member of the Sugar Grove Township Board of School Trustees. Mr. Judd was married in 1889 to Miss Edith Williams, of Goodland, Kans.
PHILIP N. JUDD, farmer and stock-raiser, Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Ill.; born at East Charlemont, Mass., Aug. 25, 1863, son of Thomas and Electa (Rice) Judd; grew to manhood on his father's farm in Sugar Grove Township, and obtained his education at the Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial Institute. After the death of his parents, he conducted a farm at Sugar Grove for one year, and then removed to Kansas, where he pre-empted a tract of government land. After living in Kansas several years, during which time he traveled extensively throughout the Rocky Mountain region, he returned to Sugar Grove, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising. Mr. Judd has served as Collector of his township. In 1897 he was married to Miss Maggie Booth, daughter of John W. Booth, of Ghana, Ill., and they have two children-Charlotte and Wesley T. Judd.
SARSON L. JUDD (deceased), farmer and merchant, Sugar Grove, Kane County, Ill.; born in Warner County, N. Y., March 14, 1849, son of Dexter C. Judd, and grandson of Sarson L. Judd, a venerable pioneer of the county, who has been deceased many years; was reared in the town of Sugar Grove, where he received a public school education, and was trained to a farming life. Soon after his marriage he removed to Iroquois County, Ill., where he farmed six years, and then returned to Kane County to settle on his father's old homestead, which he purchased and owned up to the time of his
