Gerrit P. Judd

Gerrit Parmele Judd (April 23, 1803 - July 12, 1873) was an American missionary to Hawaii who later became a trusted advisor and finance minister to King Kamehameha III.

He was born in Paris, Oneida Co., New York, the son of Elnathan Judd and his wife Betsey Hastings, and educated a physician. He married Laura Fish (1804 - 1872) on September 20, 1827 in Clinton, New York. He went out to the Sandwich Islands in 1827, as a missionary physician, and continued in that employment fifteen years. He became conspicuous in the civil concerns of the Islands, and was the King’s Minister of Finance. He was commissioned in 1849 as Minister Plenipotentiary to England, France and the United States.

He was one of the founders of the Punahou School in 1841, the founder of Hawaii's first medical school in 1870, and was the author of one of the first medical texts written in Hawaiian, "Anatomia : he palapala ia e hoike ai i ke ano o ko ke kanaka kino", in 1838.

Judd died July 12, 1873 in Honolulu.

His life was the basis of the novel "The White King". A biography, "Dr. Judd, Hawaii’s Friend" [ "Judd, Garret P. IV. Doctor Judd, Hawaii's Friend: A Biography of Gerrit Parmele Judd, 1803-1873 Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1960." ] [ Special Collections, Garret P. Judd IV. Hofstra University [http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/WestCampus/SpecialCollections/sc_afc_gerrit_p_judd.cfm] ] was published in 1960.

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* [http://hml.org/mmhc/mdindex/gpjudd1.html Biography by the Mamiya Medical Heritage Center]
* [http://hml.org/mmhc/exhibits/anatomia/index.html The text of "Anatomia"]