Mary Catherine Judd
{{Short description|American author and peace activist (1852–1937)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Mary Catherine Judd
| image = Mary C. Judd (Minneapolis Daily Times,1902).png
| caption = 1902
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|03|12}}
| birth_place = Romulus, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|10||1852|03|12}}
| death_place = Pasadena, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = {{hlist|Albion College|Whitewater Normal school}}
| occupation = {{hlist|educator|author|peace activist}}
| notable_works = {{hlist|Classic Myths|Wigwam stories}}
| party = Woman's Peace Party
}}
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Mary Catherine Judd (March 12, 1852 – October 1937) was an American educator, author of children's literature, and active worker for world peace. Born in New York state, she lived for many years in Minnesota, and in later life, in southern California.
Early life and education
Mary Catherine Judd was born, Romulus, New York, March 12, 1852. Her parents were Edward Ingraham Judd and Mary Jane Wilcox. She descended on her father's side from Deacon Thomas Judd, an English colonist, 1633, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and official in the Colonial assembly of Connecticut in 1639. Through her mother, Judd was related to the Wilcox family of East Orange, New Jersey. Mary Catherine's siblings included: Frances Luce Judd (b. 1845), Richard Wilcox Judd (b. 1846), Eliza Caroline Judd (b. 1847), and Schuyler Judd (b. 1849).{{cite web |title=Mary Catherine Judd Female12 March 1852 – Deceased • |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GKD1-SNC |website=familysearch.org |access-date=9 April 2023}}
Judd was educated in Union school (Lockport, New York), Albion College (Albion, Michigan), and Whitewater Normal school (Whitewater, Wisconsin).
Career
Judd taught in Wisconsin from 1871 to 1881,{{Cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-nov-05-1937-4000940/ |title=Jefferson |newspaper=The Janesville Daily Gazette |page=10 |date=1937-11-05 |access-date=2023-07-31 |via=NewspaperArchive}} in Minneapolis public schools, and was principal to the Lincoln School, Minneapolis,{{cite news |title=Principal of the Lincoln School |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/minneapolis-daily-times-principal-of-the/129215601/ |access-date=2023-07-31 |newspaper=Minneapolis Daily Times |via=Newspapers.com |date=8 January 1902 |page=12 |language=en}} {{source-attribution}} from 1881 to 1903. Judd studied plant, bird, and animal life, and while a teacher, emphasized nature study.
In 1896, Judd's first book, Classic Myths, appeared and was used in schools and children's libraries as one of the popular books of that time. In July 1901, Rand & McNally brought out an enlarged and profusely illustrated edition of Judd's Class Myths.{{cite news |title=Wigwam Stories – Indian Legends Are Arranged by a Minneapolis Woman. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/minneapolis-daily-times-wigwam-stories/129215778/ |access-date=2023-07-31 |newspaper=Minneapolis Daily Times |via=Newspapers.com |date=11 May 1901 |page=16 |language=en}} {{source-attribution}} Wigwam stories, Browner Primer, A. B. C. Book of Birds, and Legends of the Rhine followed. Educational articles appeared in periodicals and many short stories were published in larger periodicals. For example, in 1903, the New York Teachers' Monographs published Judd's "The Use of Classic Myths in the Grades".{{cite journal |editor-first1=Sidney Marsden |editor-last1=Fuerst |title=The Use of Classic Myths in the Grades |first=Mary Catherine |last=Judd |journal=New York Teachers' Monographs |date=March 1903 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=17–18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-O4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17 |access-date=9 April 2023 |publisher=New York Teachers' Monographs Company |language=en}} {{source-attribution}} She also wrote poetry.
Since 1911, Judd was an active worker for world peace. In 1913, she was appointed by Jane Addams as state chair of Minnesota's Woman's Peace Party which appointment she held until 1917. She also served as secretary and treasurer of the Minneapolis Peace Society, and vice president of the Minneapolis branch of the American School Peace League.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis Woman Is Peace Delegate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune/80516218/ |access-date=2023-07-31 |newspaper=Star Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |date=1 July 1915 |page=12 |language=en}} {{source-attribution}} When Jane Addams was appointing delegates to the Hague Peace Conference of April 1915, she named Judd, who was, however, unable to attend. Judd was appointed by Governor Winfield Scott Hammond a delegate to the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace held at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in July 1915; it was Judd's intention to urge that this conference take action looking to have a peace emblem placed on postage stamps.
For several years, Judd was secretary of Lewis Parliamentary Law Association and for three years, served as secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Minneapolis Civic League and also as secretary of the Minneapolis Mycological Society.{{cite book|last=Foster|first=Mary Dillon|title=Who's who Among Minnesota Women: A History of Woman's Work in Minnesota from Pioneer Days to Date, Told in Biographies, Memorials and Records of Organizations|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027811010&view=1up&seq=7|year=1924|publisher=M.D. Foster}} {{source-attribution}}
The Audubon and Nature Study Club of Santa Monica, California was organized on August 6, 1924. Judd, then living in Pasadena, California, was the inspiration and talent of the founding and growth of the organization. Birdwalks were held weekly, co-led by Judd.{{cite journal |editor1-last=Chapman |editor1-first=Frank M. |first1=J. M. |last1=Connon |title=Santa Monica (Calif.) Audubon and Nature Study Club. |journal=Bird Lore |date= December 1924 |volume=26 |issue=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtHxAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA512 |page=512 |access-date=9 April 2023 |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |language=en}}{{source-attribution}}
In 1932, Judd contributed poems to the Pasadena Writers' Club poetry contest.{{cite news |title=Writers' Club Names Judges For Contest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pasadena-post-writers-club-names-ju/129215433/ |access-date=2023-07-31 |newspaper=The Pasadena Post |via=Newspapers.com |date=22 January 1932 |page=8 |language=en}}
Death
Selected works
- Classic Myths. Greek, German and Scandinavian. Retold for second and third reader graders., 1896{{cite journal |title=Classic Myths |journal=School Education |date=March 1896 |volume=15 |issue=3 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-sBAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA37 |access-date=9 April 2023 |publisher=School Education Company |location=Minneapolis |language=en}} {{source-attribution}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=cV4AAAAAYAAJ text])
- Classical Myths, 1901 ([https://archive.org/details/cu31924053968495 text])
- Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, 1906 ([https://archive.org/details/wigwamstories00juddrich text])
- Fremont and Kit Carson, 1906 ([https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002102826u text])
- A. B. C. Book of Birds, 1916 ([https://archive.org/details/abcbookofbirds00judd text])
- The Palmer Cox Brownie primer, 1921 ([https://archive.org/details/palmercoxbrownie00coxprich text])
- Legends of the Rhine
References
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Category:People from Romulus, New York
Category:Writers from New York (state)
Category:Educators from New York (state)
Category:American children's writers
Category:American women children's writers