Zadok Knapp Judd was born on 15 October 1827 in Bostort, Canada, to Lucinda Adams and Arza Judd. He was baptized a member of the LDS Church in 1837 and a year later his family moved to Kirtland, Ohio. They, along with other LDS saints, were forced from Kirtland to Far West, then to Nauvoo. Judd was apprenticed as a tinker-tailor in Nauvoo. He joined the Mormon Battalion in 1846, worked in California for a short time, volunteered in the Provo War in 1849, served a mission with Jacob Hamblin, and helped build the St. George temple.
The Zadok Knapp Judd autobiography (1827-1909) details the life of Judd, an early convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Canada. Judd describes his experiences journeying from Canada to Kirtland, Far West, Nauvoo, and Salt Lake City. He also describes his experiences in the Mormon Battalion and at Sutter's Fort when gold was discovered. The biography details the lives of Zadok Knapp Judd and his wife Mary Minerva Dart Judd.
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Box 1, folder 2 donated by Frank F. Judd.
Processed by Linda Herrick in 1974.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2019.
This is a copy of a typewritten copy, written by Judd at the age of 75. The original is in the possession of Gertrude Judd Cottam. The first copy was completed under a ERA project in Southern Utah during 1934. This copy was completed in 1937, by Floyd L. Eisenhour, of the Historical Records Survey, of the Utah Works Progress Administration.