Edward Judson was an American

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 Baptist

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 clergyman, born at Maulmain, British Burma

Myanmar

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, a son of the missionary Adoniram Judson

Adoniram Judson

Adoniram Judson, Jr. was an American Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became the first Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma...

 and his second wife, Sarah Hall Boardman

Sarah Hall Boardman

Sarah Hall Boardman , born in Alstead, New Hampshire, spent 20 years of her life in Burma doing missionary work. She and her husband George Boardman sailed to Burma in 1824, just one week after their wedding. She was widowed in 1831...

. He graduated in 1863 at Brown University

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, in 1868 was appointed professor

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 of Latin and modern languages in Madison (now Colgate

Colgate University

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) University, in 1874-75 traveled abroad, and after being ordained to the Baptist ministry in the latter year was pastor of a church at Orange

Orange, New Jersey

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, N. J.

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, until 1881. Thereafter to the time of his death he occupied the pulpit of a New York City

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 church, first known as the Berean Church, later as the Memorial Baptist, and finally as the Judson Memorial

Judson Memorial Church

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, Dr. Judson having erected a large building on Washington Square

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 to house the congregation, equipped with the facilities of an "institutional" church. He lectured on theology

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 at the University of Chicago

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 (1904-06) and on Baptist principles and polity

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 at Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

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(1906-08) and was made professor of pastoral polity at Colgate. In 1899 he published a Life of his father, and he wrote also The Institutional Church.




Judson, Edward. The Life of Adoniram Judson. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1883.