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Judd, David Wright

soldier, journalist, state legislator, author, was born Sept. 1, 1838, in Lockport, N. Y. During the civil war he enlisted as a private, and received a captain's commission before he resigned. He was elected as a republican to the New York legislature in 1871. He was the author of Two Years' Campaigning in Virginia and Maryland, and edited The Educational Cyclopædia; and The Life and Writings of Frank Forester, in ten volumes. He died Feb. 6, 1860, in New York city.

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