THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 29. NOVEMBER, 1901. No. 11. 



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CAPT. JUDSON N. CROSS, 



MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 

 Died Aug 31, 1901, Aged 63 Years. 



Judson Newell Cross was born Jan. 16, 1838, at Pogueland, 

 Jefferson county, New York, on a farm bought by his grandfather, 

 Theodore Cross, in 1818, from the agent of Joseph Bonaparte, whose 

 American estate was in that region. Mr. Cross was the son of Rev. 

 Gorham Cross, who was called the father of Congressionalism in 

 northern New York, and of Sophia Murdock Cross. On his father's 

 side he was descended from a long line of sturdy New England men, 

 the family easily tracing its ancestors back to 1640, when the first 

 member of the same name settled on the Merrimac river, near Law- 

 rence, Mass. The old Cross homestead still belongs to and is oc- 

 cupied by a member of the family. Among the members of the 

 Cross family were several revolutionary soldiers. Judson's mother 

 belonged to the Murdock family of Townsend, Vt. Her grand- 

 fathers were revolutionary soldiers, and among her relatives were 

 John Read of Boston, said to be the greatest lawyer that America 

 produced before the revolutionary war, and Rev. Hollis Read, of 

 Townsend, Vt., who was the first missionary to India and first trans- 

 lated the Bible into the Indian language. 



Mr. Cross left home for Oberlin, Ohio, the day he was seven- 

 teen years old. After a few months at Oberlin college, on account 

 of lack of means he went to Booneville, N. Y., to work in a store 

 for his uncle. He taught school the next fall near Sandusky, and 

 alternately studied at Oberlin and taught school until 1861, when 

 he enlisted in the army. He was the second man to get his name 

 on the roll of the first company enlisted at Oberlin. This was Com- 

 pany C of the Seventh Ohio Infantry, and Cross was made its first 



