Super fine Model 1852 Navy officer inscribed with a family inscription on the guard.  Manufactured: Chicopee, Mass  Maker: Ames Mfg. Co.  Year: 1852 dated  Model: model 1852 Size: 29 inch blade, 1.132 wide, .36 thick  Condition: VG

1852 inspected Navy of A.B. Judson MD & passed on. Super fine Model 1852 Navy officer inscribed with a family inscription on the guard. The inscription reads: A. B. Judson, MD / 1861 - 1865. There is a second inscription presenting his sword to: “To Adoniram Judson Hanna” with a 1910 date. The obverse of the blade has the 1852 date stamped on the ricasso. It is etched with Ames Mfg. Co. / Chicopee / Mass. It follows with decorative geometric and foliate, an anchor with federal shield overlay, a ring of stars and a stand of arms with trident and flag with U.S.N.  The reverse has P / R.B.H. on the ricasso, An eagle on a cannon, a fouled anchor, U.S.N. ribbon and a rope - knot with acorns and oak leaves. The hilt is heavy gilt with fine sharkskin wrap and bound with gilt wire. The black leather scabbard is a wrapped seam with gilt mounts with naval knot ring bands. The drag and the quillon are dolphins as is the top of the knuckle bow. The pommel top is an eagle surrounded by 13 stars.

Adoniram Brown Judson (1837-1916) was born in Burma where his father was an American missionary. He studied medicine at Harvard and at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1865.

Judson enlisted as an Asst. Surgeon on 7/30/61 and was commissioned into the US Navy on that date. Promoted to Surgeon on 12/26/66. Resigned on 5/11/68.  Served on the following ships:  Mortar Flotilla, New Ironsides, USS Nantucket, the Muscoota, and the Michigan; and in the West Gulf and South Atlantic Squadrons.

After his service in the Navy during the Civil War, he settled in practice in New York, devoting himself to orthopedics. From 1878 to 1908 he was orthopedic surgeon to the out-patient department at New York Hospital. In 1887 he helped to found the American Orthopaedic Association, of which he was vice president in 1889 and president in 1890. From 1886 until his death he was statistical secretary to the New York Academy of Medicine. He was chairman of the Section of Orthopedic Surgery. Judson died Sept. 20, 1916 in New York City.

The second individual whose name is engraved on the guard, Adoniram Judson Hanna, may be an author/journalist/poet found listed variously as Judson Adoniram Hann, A. Judson Hanna, Judson A. Hanna, and Judson Hanna. Hanna was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1875, son of Tomas H. J. and Emily (Hudson) Hanna, born in British India and Burma respectively. He appears to be related in some fashion to Dr. Judson, perhaps a nephew. Hanna, a resident of Pennsylvania, served as a Sgt. in the 30^th Infantry (Private at Discharge) with Detachment, PA 3^rd Division during WWI, from 11/3/1917 – 8/29/1919. He died in Bucks County, PA in 1928 at the age of 52, never having married.  He is buried in Knights of Pythias Greenwood Cemetery in Philadelphia County. Further research on Hanna is certainly a possibility.

Accompanied by Judson’s military & pension records, and a brief amount of research material on Hanna.  [ss, ld]

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