Gerrit P. Judd

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Gerrit Parmele Judd (1803–1873) was an American physician and missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii who later became a trusted advisor and cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III.

Life

Judd was born April 23, 1803 in Paris, Oneida County, New York, the son of Elnathan Judd and his wife Betsey Hastings. On his mother's side, he was descended from Thomas Hastings, who came from the East Anglian area of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.

He was educated as a physician at the medical college in Fairfield, New York. He married Laura Fish (1804–1872) on September 20, 1827 in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. The couple sailed to Hawaii (then known as the 'Sandwich Islands') that same year, on the ship Parthian, the third company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was assigned to the mission at Honolulu on the island of Oahu, as a missionary physician, and continued in that employment fifteen years.

Work

In 1842 he resigned from the mission and became an advisor and translator to King Kamehameha III. He also became involved in the civil concerns of the islands, and was the King’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 1843 to March 1845, Minister of Interior from March 1845 to February 1846, Minister of Finance from April 1846 to September 1953, and in the house of representatives from 1858 to 1859. He was commissioned in 1849 as Minister Plenipotentiary to England, France and the United States.

He was one of the founders of the Punahou School for children of the missionaries in 1841. He founded Hawaii's first medical school in 1870, and was the author of one of the first medical texts written in Hawaiian, Anatomia : he palapala ia e hoike ai i ke ano o ko ke kanaka kino, in 1838.

Judd died July 12, 1873 in Honolulu and was buried in the Oahu Cemetery.

Legacy

They had nine children:

1.Gerrit Parmele II born March 8, 1829, died November 13, 1839, buried in Oahu Cemetery.

2.Elizabeth Kinaʻu born July 5, 1831 died August 9, 1918. Married September 29, 1857 to Samuel Gardner Wilder (1831–1888) from Leominster, Massachusetts, six children.

3.Helen Seymour born August 27, 1833 and died April 2, 1911.

4.Charles Hastings born September 8, 1835 (twin) died April 18, 1890. Married November 1, 1859 to Emily Catherine Cutts (1840–1921), four children. Worked in the Guano and farming businesses, and held several posts in the Kingdom.

5.Laura Fish born September 8, 1835 (twin) died November 22, 1888 at San Francisco, California. Married February 22, 1861 to Joshua Gill Dickson (1830–1880), four children.

6.Albert Francis born January 7, 1838 died May 20, 1900. Married April 4, 1872 to Agnes Hall Boyd (1844–?) nine children. Last child Lawrence M. Judd became Governor of the Territory of Hawaii in 1929–1934.

7.Alan Wilkes born April 20, 1840 and died March 26, 1875.

8.Sybil Augusta born March 16, 1843 and died September 10, 1906. Married February 27, 1862 to Henry Alpheus Peirce Carter (1837–1891), seven children. Son Charles Lunt was a member of the Committee of Safety, and son George Robert was Governor of the Territory of Hawaii (1903–1907).

9.Juliet Isabelle born March 28, 1846 and died June 27, 1857.

Judd's life was the basis of the novel The White King. A biography, Dr. Judd, Hawaii’s Friend which was written by his great-grandson Gerrit P. Judd IV (1915–1971) and published in 1960. His papers were kept under restricted access at the Bishop Museum until his great-grandson Albert Francis Judd III died in 2006.

Publications

Gerrit P. Judd (1838). Anatomia. Lahainaluna. http://www.ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?c=anatomia01&l=en.

Dr. Gerrit Parmele Judd Birth: 23 APR 1803 in Paris, Oneida County, NY Death: 12 Jul 1873 in Honolulu,Hawaii

Message rec'd: "Born August 23, 1803 and d. July 12, 1873. This was confirmed with the Mission House Museum Library in Honolulu." (It's also what the tombstone says.)

Immigration: 15 OCT 1827 Kingdom of Hawaii

Event: Graduated EDUC Hamilton College, Clinton, Oneida County, NY

Father: Elnathan Judd b: 3 DEC 1773 in Farmington, Ontario County, NY Mother: Betsey Hastings b: 28 AUG 1782 in Washington (formerly Judeah and New Preston), Litchfield, CT

Married: Laura Fish b: 2 APR 1804 in Plainfield,Otsego,NY Married:

Children Gerrit Parmele Judd b: 8 MAR 1829 Elizabeth Kinau Judd b: 5 JUL 1831 Helen Seymour Judd b: 27 AUG 1833 Charles Hastings Judd b: 8 SEP 1835 Laura Fish Judd b: 8 SEP 1835 Albert Francis Judd b: 7 JAN 1838 Allan Wilkes Judd b: 10 APR 1841 Sybil Augusta Judd b: 16 MAR 1843 Juliett Isabelle Judd b: 27 MAR 1845

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More info about the portrait photo:

Dr. Gerrit Judd with Lot Kamehameha and Alexander Liholiho, 1850 l/4 plate daguerreotype courtesy of the Hawaii State Archives. 15-year-old heir to the throne of the Hawaiian Islands, Alexander Liholiho (Right) kept a detailed diary of his year of travel to the United States and Europe. Accompanied by his older brother and their tutor, Protestant missionary and government minister Gerrit P. Judd, he arrived at the Genesee Falls on Tuesday, June 25, 1850, after a visit to Dr. Judd’s family in Detroit. An uncle of Dr. Judd, Orlando Hastings, lived in Rochester and was director of the Western House of Refuge reform school there. Daguerreotype portraits of the brothers with their teacher had been previously made in the prestigious Boston Studio of Southworth and Hawes. Although the teenaged prince makes no mention in the diary of a portrait sitting in Rochester, the Whitney stamp on the brass mat framing the image is unmistakable. Whitney intentionally posed the group in a pyramidical arrangement. Dr.Judd’s presence and gesture is an avuncular one. Besides his concerns for the princes’ education, he had lofty responsibilities as the “Special Commissioner and Plenipotentiary Extraordinaire” of the Hawaiian Islands. After Alscander’s (King Kamehameha IV) marriage in an Anglican ceremony in 1861, Dr. Judd Lamented on the behavior of his former charge: “The King, educated by the Mission, most of all dislikes the Mission. Having been compelled to be good when a boy, he is determined not to be good as a man. Driven out to morning prayer meeting, monthly concert, Sabbath School, long sermons and daily exhortations, his heart is hardened to a degree unknown to the heathen...the picture is dark”

"Some sources that say he was educated at the Medical College in Fairfield, NY."