Sarah Louise Judd

Sarah Louise Judd
Born (1802-06-29)June 29, 1802 June 26, 1802
Farmington, Connecticut
Died October 11, 1881(1881-10-11) (aged 79)
Stillwater, Minnesota
Resting place Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater[1]
Nationality American
Known for Photography
Spouse(s)
Ariel Eldridge (m. 1849)

Sarah Louise Judd (June 26, 1802 – October 11, 1881) was the first commercial photographer in Minnesota.[1] She also established the first schools in the area of Stillwater, Minnesota.

Biography

Born in Farmington, Connecticut,[1] she moved first to Marine, Illinois, (c. 1832) before settling in Stillwater, Minnesota in 1845. She founded the first schools at Point Douglas, Minnesota (1845) and Stillwater (1846). A county history from 1881 states that she made "daguerrotypes first in the spring of 1848 and continued in Stillwater two years." In January 1849 she married Ariel Eldridge (1816–1896). She also taught at the first school in Marine Mills, Minnesota in 1849. She died in her home in Stillwater. Sources list her death date as either October 11, 1881[2] or 1886.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Peterson, Brent - March 24, 2015. "Minnesota's First Commercial Photographer". Washington County Historical Society. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  2. ↑ Peterson, Brent - May 3, 2013. "Sarah Louise Judd: Minnesota's first photographer". St. Croix Area Lowdown. Press Publications. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  3. ↑ Palmquist, Peter E.; Kailbourn, Thomas R. (2005). Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford University Press. pp. 366–. ISBN 978-0-8047-4057-9. Retrieved 22 March 2013.


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