Smith, Judson

Born: 1810-03-13 Connecticut

Died: 1883-03-27 Binghamton, New York

Flourished: 1852 to 1883 Binghamton, New York

Judson Smith, trader and shoe manufacturer, was born in Union, Connecticut. By 1837 he was engaged in the shoe business. Smith lived variously in Sturbridge, Warren, and Fiskdale, Massachusetts, before he settled in Binghamton, New York in 1852. There he continued the manufacture of boots and shoes. Smith was a director of the newly-organized Bank of Binghamton in 1852, and when the Chenango Valley Savings Bank was incorporated in 1855, he was named as a trustee but withdrew due to a delay in the bank’s organization. Smith married Cynthia Hammond in 1838 and the pair had six children.

Harvey M. Lawson, comp., The History of Union, Conn. (New Haven, CT: Price, Lee & Adkins, 1893), 465; William S. Lawyer, ed., Binghamton Its Settlement, Growth and Development ([Boston]: Century Memorial, 1900), 303, 310, 477; Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), 17 January 1838, Union City (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2006); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Sturbridge, Worcester County, MA, 217; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 3, Binghamton, Broome County, NY, 70; The Congregationalist (Boston), 12 April 1883, 8:4; Gravestone, Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, NY.