[Anson Judd]. American educator and theologian, born in Philadelphia, on the 7th of November 1823. He was educated at Hamilton College and studied law at Utica, NY; became tutor in Hamilton College in 1845; adjunct professor of moral philosophy and rhetoric (1849); and professor of logic, elocution and rhetoric (1853–70). Between 1870 and 1880 he was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Albany; was professor of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology in Auburn Theological Seminary (1880–87); was elected vice-chancellor of the University of the State of New York (1890), and chancellor (1892). He continued to be a regent of the State University from 1874, and was a member of the Presbyterian General Assembly (1871, 1877 and 1884) and was a delegate to the Evangelical Alliance, Belfast, Ireland (1884).
