Background
Orange was born on July 26, 1822 near Niagara Falls, New York, United States, one of the ten children of Ozias and Rheuama (Wright) Judd, and a descendant of Thomas Judd who settled at Cambridge, Massachussets, about 1634.
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Orange was born on July 26, 1822 near Niagara Falls, New York, United States, one of the ten children of Ozias and Rheuama (Wright) Judd, and a descendant of Thomas Judd who settled at Cambridge, Massachussets, about 1634.
The boy's inherited bent for education took him, after attaining self-support, to Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, where he graduated in 1847. Later, he was a graduate student from 1850 to 1853 at Yale.
Initially, Judd became a teacher at Wilbraham Academy in western Massachusetts, but shortly developed an interest in agricultural chemistry and started to study that sphere.
In 1853 he removed to New York City to become joint editor of the American Agriculturist with Anthony Benezet Allen, thus making a definite transition from a career of scholarship to one of active journalism, which was to end only with his death, forty years later. At first he did all the office work on the Agriculturist and wrapped and addressed by hand the entire edition. Within three years he was owner and publisher, as well as editor, and between 1856 and 1864 he raised the circulation of the journal (changed from a weekly to a monthly) from less than 1. 000 to more than 100, 000. He was also the agricultural editor of the New York Times from 1855 to 1863. Before the Department of Agriculture had begun to publish extensively and before the land-grant colleges were operating, the farm journal was almost the sole medium for providing the farmer with a sound scientific knowledge of his calling.
The Civil War interrupted his editorial labors. He was with the United Christian Commission at Gettysburg, and with the Sanitary Commission followed the fortunes of the Army of the Potomac from the Rapidan to Petersburg.
After the war his publishing interests in New York rapidly expanded. Besides the Agriculturist he controlled Hearth and Home from the end of its second year (1870 - 73), and owned the copyrights of many agricultural books. As he gained wealth his thoughts turned to the possibilities of establishing scientific instruction at Wesleyan University. In 1871 his ideals were partially embodied in the Orange Judd Hall of Natural Science, which he gave to the University. His interest in his alma mater was also shown in the alumni catalogue, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, Alumni Record, 1833-1869 (1869), which he laboriously compiled. By his tender of $1, 000 the establishment of the first of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations at Wesleyan University, serving the State of Connecticut, was made possible.
Years before, in 1857-58, he had imported sorghum seed into the United States and distributed it gratis, thus helping to initiate a new industry He was president. of a railroad built to connect Flushing, L. I, with New York City, and his losses in the venture, coupled with unfortunate real-estate speculations, brought about his failure in 1883.
Retiring from the Agriculturist he went to Chicago and there edited the Prairie Farmer from 1884 to 1888. In the latter year he bought the St. Paul Farmer, and moved it to Chicago where, as both editor and business manager, he conducted it as the Orange Judd Farmer until his death.
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His articles were brief, practical, and addressed to definite farm problems. Belonging to the once disparaged group of "book farmers, " Judd always had the needs of the "dirt farmer" in mind and was one of the few agricultural writers of his time who had a first-hand acquaintance with both the farm and the laboratory.
On October 10, 1847, Judd married Sarah L. Ford, who died in 1854; and on May 1, 1855, he took as a second wife Harriet Stewart. Two sons were associated with his publishing enterprises.