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HON. JOSEPH H. BUDD
HON. JOSEPH H. BUDD, Judge of
the Superior Court of San
Joaquin County, was born in Duchess
County, New York, January 13, 1822, son of James and Ellen Budd, natives also of the Empire State, who passed the remainder of their lives there. After
graduation at Williams (Massachusetts) College in 1843, he studied law at
Poughkeepsie, New York, was admitted to the bar, and in 1847 removed to
Janesville, Wisconsin, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession,
having for his partners, in succession, Lorenzo Sawyer, now Judge of the United
States Circuit Court, and John R. Bennett, who is now Judge of the District
Court in Wisconsin. In 1857 he came to California, and the next year settled in Stockton, where he has ever since been a resident. Mr. Budd
has now practiced law in this city and State thirty-two years, having been
connected with so many prominent cases that we have not space here for their
enumeration. His connection with the Moquelemos grant litigation is given at
length elsewhere in this work. For two terms he was City Attorney here, and in
the fall of 1887 he was elected to his present position. Politically he has
always been a Democrat.
He married Miss L. M. Ash, in Wisconsin, in 1849, and they have two sons: James H., one of
the most prominent citizens of the county, whose sketch appears elsewhere in
this volume, and John E., at present Receiver of the United States Land Office.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 358. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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