Santa Clara County
Biographies
JUDSON WALDO PAUL, M. D.
JUDSON WALDO PAUL, M. D. The ancestry of Dr. Paul of
Santa Clara is traced back to one Paul, a Virginian by birth and lineage and a
soldier in the Revolutionary war. His son, Jacob Paul, accompanied by his
family, removed to Ohio about 1830, and later established the family home in Monon, Ind., where he died. At the time the family left the
Old Dominion, his son, Joseph M., was a small child. In Ohio he learned
the trade of a carpenter and builder, which he followed until the beginning of
the Civil war. Ambitious to serve his country, he enlisted in Company I,
Sixty-second Ohio Infantry, and served as captain at the front with his
regiment until he was killed in the attack on Fort Wagner at Charleston,
S. C. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Lucinda Walls, was born in
Virginia and died in Morgan county, Ohio, at the age
of about thirty-nine years.
Among the two sons and two daughters comprising the
family of Joseph M. and Lucinda Paul, the youngest was Judson Waldo Paul,
born in Morgan county, Ohio, May 17, 1861.
He was educated in the common schools of his home neighborhood until the
completion of the elementary studies, after which he took a course of three
years in DePauw University at Greencastle, Ind., where he availed himself of
the excellent advantages offered by this old established institution of
learning. Having decided to enter the medical profession, in 1888 he took up
his medical studies in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which in 1891 he
received the degree of M. D. Later, while holding the
position of house surgeon in the Orange (N. J.) Memorial Hospital,
he had the advantage of practical experience along varied lines of the
profession, and the knowledge thus acquired was of even greater value to him
than that gained by attendance upon lectures in the college. Afterward for a
term he was engaged as clinical physician in the Brooklyn Central Dispensary,
where again he had the advantage of varied experiences in the treatment of
disease. Fortified with the practical knowledge thus acquired, he prepared to
establish himself in practice, and with that purpose in view, came to
California in 1894, since which time he has become a well-known physician of
Santa Clara.
In Alameda county, Cal., Dr.
Paul married Marion Louise Powell, who was born in Vallejo, Cal., and is now
the mother of one son, Waldo Henry Paul. Her father, James Henry Powell, was
born in Philadelphia, Pa., and came to California in 1854, settling in Vallejo,
where he engaged in the lumber business. Though he is now interested in the
Puget Sound Lumber Company, he still retains his residence in Alameda. He is a
son of Abraham Powell, a native of Pennsylvania and a pioneer of 1849 in
California. Being pleased with the country, he returned to the east and brought
his family back with him in 1854, settling in Vallejo and embarking in the
lumber business, continuing the same and kindred enterprises until his death.
By a former marriage Dr. Paul became the father of two daughters,
Elizabeth B. and Lillian Paul.
Though not active in politics, Dr. Paul has always been a
stanch believer in Republican principles. Fraternally
he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order
of Red Men and the Independent Order of Foresters, while along the line of
professional organizations he holds membership in the American Medical
Association, the California State Medical Society, and the Santa Clara County
Medical Society, of which latter he has been president and a leading member.
Through his skill in the diagnosis of disease and the accuracy with which he
prescribes remedial agencies, he has gained a position among the leading
physicians of his home city and county.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard 03 July 2016.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Page
1238. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
ฉ 2016 Marie Hassard.