Civil War Union Army Officer. Served as Captain and commander of Company A, 3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He received his commission on May 13, 1961 and was mustered in June 10, 1861. He was killed at the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia.
Married 1854 Clarissa/Clara Louise Smith (abt 1834-1922) daughter of Nelson and Rebekah Smith. Clara married second John E Kellogg. They had 2 children: Clara Luella and Raymond.
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Samuel Adolphus Judd was born on May 11 or 21, 1834, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, the son of Samuel 1806-1890) and Julia Ann Swain or Swaine (d. 1894).

Sometime around 1852 Samuel (elder) moved his family from South Hadley, where he had lived for 46 years, to Grand Rapids, and joined into partnership with one B. B. Church in the market business. ......

..... in the spring of 1860, Samuel A. entered into a co-partnership with one E. Powers "for the purpose of carrying on the business of the bakery and confectionery business." Their store was opposite R. E. Butterworth's block of buildings on Monroe Street. Samuel A. married South Hadley native Clarissa Louise Smith (1834-1922) October 25, 1854, at the Congregational church in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and they had two children: William Elliott (b. 1855) and Jennie Eugenia (b. 1858).

By 1860 Samuel was operating a flour and feed store and living with his wife and children in Grand Rapids, Third Ward. When the war broke out he was also serving as a volunteer fireman having been elected assistant foreman of Hook and Ladder company 1, and Treasurer of the Fireman's Association. During the late 1850s, Samuel A. and his brother George E. both became actively involved in the development of the Valley City Guards (VCG), a local militia company organized in Grand Rapids in 1855. Sam Judd was elected Second Lieutenant of the VCG on February 12, 1858, and elected First Lieutenant on April 24, 1859. According to one observer Samuel was a superb marksman......

.....He was elected as Captain on December 3, 1860, when Captain Byron Pierce resigned. Samuel was 27 years old when he enlisted as Captain of Company A on May 13, 1861, along with his younger brother George, and indeed the VCG would form the nucleus of Company A.....

.....At some point after the Regiment went into its winter quarters Clara Judd joined her husband. On January 15, 1862, Wright wrote home to his sister that "They live in a log house, close by, that I and the boys built for him."

Samuel was killed in action on May 31, 1862 at Fair Oaks, Virginia, at the same time that his brother George lost an arm. ......

The Grand Rapids Eagle wrote on June 13, 1863 that
a very appropriate and beautiful monument has just been completed and this day erected in the old City Cemetery, over the remains of our late esteemed fellow citizen, and lamented Captain Samuel A. Judd, who fell in the battle of Fair Oaks, bravely fighting under the Stars and Stripes, for Freedom and the Union. The monument is made of beautiful Italian marble, and is 11 feet high. Its base is made of 2 slabs of Ohio stone; its plinth is a square marble block 2 and a half feet high, with marble caps, on one side of which is chiseled the following inscription: 'Samuel A. Judd, Captain of Company A, 3d Michigan Infantry volunteers, in the war for the Suppression of the Rebellion, killed in the Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, May 31, 1862, aged 28 years, 10 days'; and on the other side: 'This monument was erected by members of his company, who loved him as a brother, obeyed with alacrity his commands, and will during life, cherish the remembrance of his courage and patriotism.' The spire is a pillar of plain white marble, square and tapering in form, 6 and a half feet in height, and upon which is chiseled a sabre, and upon the other a double triangle, square and compass. The monument is the work of Wm. Laraway & company, and it speaks for itself in praise of the good taste and skill displayed on it, by this accomplished artist.

In August of 1862 Clarissa applied for and received a widow's pension (no. 415). In 1868 she married John Kellogg of Massachusetts.....

.....Following the death of her second husband in 1887, Clarissa, who was living in Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, applied for a renewal of her former widow's pension in 1901 which was granted, drawing $20 per month, and $30 per month by 1922. By 1922 she was living at 102 Elm Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Excerpts from "Samuel Adolphus Judd UPDATE 13 July 2018
Steve Soper," 3rd Michigan Infantry Research Project, oldthirdmichiga.org
(Submitted Source): By John Allen Stanton & Peter Lawyer
Contributor: Rebecca ECKARD Wilson (47113005)