Judson, Clay. Clay Judson papers, 1800-1966. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Judson, William V. (William Voorhees), 1865-1923

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Army officer, military engineer, and diplomat. A graduate of West Point and the U.S. Engineer School, Judson's career with the Army Corps of Engineers included working on river, harbor, and canal improvements in Chicago and the Great Lakes region, Puerto Rico, N.Y., and Texas, consulting on the Panama Canal, and serving as engineer commissioner for the District of Columbia. Judson's military and diplomatic posts included military attaché to the Russian army during the R...

Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978

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Shaw, a sculptor, was the daughter of prominent architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. She studied with Albin Polasek at the Art Institute of Chicago and went to Paris in 1920 to continue her studies under Antoine Bourdelle at the Academy Grande Chaumiere. She authored THE QUIET EYE and GARDENS AND OTHER PLACES and taught sculpture at the American University in Cairo in 1963. As an adult, she joined the Society of Friends and became an active participant in the church. Died 1978. From the ...

America First Committee

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Private organization to promote United States nonintervention in World War II. From the description of America First Committee records, 1940-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868195 ...

Judson, Clay.

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Born Sidney Clay Judson at Lexington, Kentucky, on February 6, 1892 to Alice Clay Judson and General William Voorhees Judson, Clay Judson earned his A.B. at Harvard and his law degree at University of Chicago. In 1917, he enlisted in the United States Army and served as a captain during World War I. He served in France and Germany for 17 months during 1918-1919, but saw very little combat. Instead, he took a law course at the Faculte de Droit at the Universite de Paris. ...