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Adoniram was born on April 7, 1837 in Maulmain, Burma, a son of the well-known missionary, Adoniram Judson, and his second wife, Sarah (Hall) Boardman Judson. His early years were spent in Burma, but in 1845 he was taken to the United States.
Judson was educated in the United States. He received a degree in arts from Brown University in 1859 and had begun the study of medicine at Harvard. In 1865 he took his first degree in medicine from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and in 1868 a second, ad eundem, from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
The outbreak of the Civil War led him to apply for appointment as assistant surgeon in the United States navy. Despite the fact that he was an undergraduate, he passed the required examination and in 1864 was promoted to passed assistant surgeon.
Later, he resigned from the navy and settled in the metropolis. He was an inspector on the board of health of New York City from 1869 to 1877, when he resigned to take the post of pension examining surgeon. In 1873 he published papers on the epizotic in horses and on the epidemic of cholera in the Mississippi Valley, but at a later period he decided to devote himself to the then new specialty of orthopedic surgery, and thenceforth the great majority of his papers dealt with that subject. Although he never secured a position on any of the medical-college faculties nor in the special orthopedic hospitals, he made good use of the orthopedic class of the New York Hospital Out-patient Department, of which he was the head from 1878 to 1908.
Although Judson was a prolific writer - he published more than fifty papers - he wrote no books and his name was never associated with any new operation or surgical device. His practice was not so large as to monopolize his best hours, for in 1901 he secured the post of medical examiner of the New York State Civil Service Commission and in the same year was again appointed pension examining surgeon. He gradually withdrew from the work of the American Orthopedic Association and concentrated on that of the section of orthopedics of the New York Academy of Medicine, of which he was for many years the chairman. Here, as in his earlier office, he was instrumental in having the work of members published at home and abroad.
Greatly interested in the Academy of Medicine, he was its statistical secretary from 1886 until the time of his death, and prepared memoirs of all its numerous fellows. He was nearly eighty when he died of diabetes, from which he had suffered for many years.
Adoniram Brown Judson was the head of the New York Hospital Out-patient Department. He was instrumental in the formation of the American Orthopedic Association and was its president. Besides, he was always active in having its papers published not only in American but in European journals, and thus was instrumental in making American orthopedics well-known abroad.
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For many years he was an active member of the Judson Memorial, the Baptist church of which his brother Edward was pastor.
Judson was a friendly, companionable man of unusual modesty.
Adoniram was married, November 19, 1868, to Anna Margaret Haughwout of New York.
