California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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C. H. JUDD has had a long and varied experience of nearly thirty years in the citrus industry in 
Southern California and has been a decided factor in the development of that branch of 
horticulture in Ventura County. His name is well and favorably known in this section and his 
own success has been a valuable influence in promoting the general prosperity of a large 
community.
Mr. Judd was born in the State of Minnesota but in early manhood chose sunny California as the 
scene of his adventures in life. He was born at Northfield April 16, 1869, a son of Silas and 
Margaret A. Judd, was reared in his native town, where he attended grammar and high schools, 
finishing his course at the age of seventeen, and then completed his education in that fine old 
institution known as Carlton College at Northfield, from which he graduated in 1886.
With this liberal foundation of literary training he at once came out to California, and in the 
vicinity of the present Town of Azusa in Los Angeles County bought a tract of fifteen acres. His 
first cropping here was in potatoes, a line of agriculture with which he had some familiarity and 
which under his management proved profitable. In 1889 he turned to the citrus fruit industry, 
planting ten acres of his land in oranges. He also bought twenty acres more, and planted that in 
oranges and lemons, and soon became successful both as a grower and producer and in the 
citrus nursery business.
In 1907 Mr. Judd sold his twenty acre ranch in Los Angeles County and in 1911 the remainder of 
his original fifteen acre tract. Coming to Ventura County, he bought a half interest in a hundred 
acres from Mrs. Emma G. Baker near Saticoy. Another purchase shortly followed of a half 
interest with Mrs. Baker in fifty acres just across the road from the hundred acre ranch. Thirty-
five acres of the hundred' acre ranch and the entire fifty acres across the road have since been 
planted in lemons, and this constitutes one of the finest lemon groves now being developed in 
Ventura County. Mr. Judd also owns a half interest with Mrs. Baker in a thirteen acre orange 
grove near Ventura. They are also associated in the ownership of considerable business 
property at Ventura City.
Mr. Judd is a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles and in politics is a republican. At Los 
Angeles in November, 1887, he married Miss Ona D. Hoxsey. Roy W., the older of their two 
children, now twenty-six, is managing his father's ranch in Ventura County. Mrs. Fay Stockman, 
the younger child, lives at home with her father.