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Henry Everett Judd, whose advancement in the business world is the direct outcome of persistent effort intelligently directed, is now the president of the Matthews Brothers Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee. He is a native son of New England, his birth having occurred in Waterbury, Connecticut, November 4, 1881. His father, Edson A. Judd, who died in the year 1917, was born in Watertown, Connecticut, and there followed merchandising. He was a son of Amos Judd, also a native of Watertown and the ancestry of the family dates back in New England to the year 1634. The mother of Henry Everett Judd bore the maiden name of Katherine Everett and she, too, was born in Watertown, Connecticut. Her death occurred in 1919. She was a daughter of E. B. Everett of Watertown and her people were among the first settlers of that place, so that Henry E. Judd is a representative of two of the oldest and best known families of the Charter Oak state.

Reared in Waterbury, Connecticut, Henry E. Judd attended the public schools until graduated from the high school with the class of 1898. Not content with the educational advantages he had thus far enjoyed he later became a student in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, where he completed a course in civil engineering, being graduated with the C. E. degree in 1902. He at once put his theoretical knowledge to the practical test, going to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where as an engineer he entered the employ of the W. G. Wilkins Company, doing work in West Virginia for a year. He next went to Sykesville, Pennsylvania, as engineer in charge of a coal and coke plant, the operation of which he directed for two years. He was next made assistant superintendent of the plant and still later went to New York, where he became associated with C. P. Perin, as consulting engineer. He represented Mr. Perin in Virginia in the development of large coal properties there, spending three years in that state. He afterward went to India for Mr. Perin as a mining engineer and had charge of development work in connection with iron and coal mines for the Tata Iron & Steel Company at Bombay, India, for two years. Following his return to the United States he did various jobs for Mr. Perin for a period of two years and then returned to India, where he again had charge of his old job for another two-year period. Once more he came to America and did work in various parts of the United States for Mr. Perin for two years. In 1917 he made a third voyage to India and became general manager of the Tata Company and carefully directed the business of that corporation for two years. In January, 1919, he came to Milwaukee and entered into active and financial relations with the Matthews Brothers Manufacturing Company as president. This company manufactures fine interior woodwork and its output goes to all parts of the United States, while some exports of the product have been made. The company has recently purchased a modern plant on the Port Washington road, which will constitute one of the best equipped cabinet shops in the country used for high-grade work. Mr. Judd is a man of marked energy, who quickly recognizes the possibilities of a situation and throughout his life he has made wise use of his time, talents and opportunity. Step by step, therefore, he has advanced and his success should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what can be accomplished through individual efforts.

On the 7th of August, 1917, Mr. Judd was married to Miss Jeannette Abbott of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a daughter of William L. Abbott, who was with the Carnegie Steel Company as an official. Mr. Abbott was born in Ohio and came of New England ancestry, one of his direct ancestors being numbered among the founders of Yale University. To Mr. and Mrs. Judd has been born one child, Pierrepont Abbott Judd, whose birth occurred April 8, 1920. Mr. Judd possesses literary taste and ability and is the author of a number of most interesting articles on engineering topics, which have been published in the press of today. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. He belongs to the Chi Phi and the Sigma Xi fraternities. He also has membership in the Milwaukee Club, in the University Club of New York, in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, in the Association of Commerce and in the Fox Point Club. These connections indicate the nature and breadth of his interests and activities outside of business. It is a pleasure to meet a man of such resourcefulness and capability as Mr. Judd possesses. He has always been ready for any emergency and for any opportunity and has labored effectively and earnestly not only in the upbuilding of his own fortunes but in the advancement of interests and projects which have had to do with the public welfare and with general progress and improvement.