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Parents: Joseph & Abigail G. (Knowles) Judkins
Children: 3: John Roby Judkins, Edith, Etta Hazle (oldest 2 d. young; Hazle m. Miles F. Weaver and they operated Weaver Photo Service in Los Angeles. It continued by 2 sons into the 1960s. Commercial photographers.
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FamilyInPhotography: 3 brothers, sister, brother-in-law, daughter
OriginalNotes: Judkins Journal, "The Judkins Photographers," by Polly S. Weaver, Mar. and June 1991, p. 35-53: long and complete biography of David Roby Judkins, including photographs of his floating gallery and Alaska studio. Timeline:
1836 - b. in Chesterville, ME
1850 - in Chesterville Census
1850-64 - location unknown
1858 - about time he started in photography
1864 - San Francisco studio with A. B. Hamor, partner
1866 - 6 mos. in Downieville, CA, photographer
1868 - succeeded to studio of W. H. Lane, Fitchburg, MA; m. Ellen Gill
1870 - living in Rockford, IL, set up housekeeping with Ellen's mother & brother; had Judkins' Tintype and Ferrotype Gallery (by 1871 the gallery was in another name)
? - Mendocino, CA where he made series of stereographs
1877-Feb. 1878 - Logansport, IN took over Fetter's Old Stand
1878 - without wife moved to Puget Sound area of Washington Territory and had floating gallery with living quarters and studio, the building was moved onto land as a portable outfit. Often mentioned in Seattle newspapers, seen at: Port Gamble, Utsalady, Snohomish City, Tulalip, Stanwood, LaConner, & San Juan Islands.
1879 - Dec. filed for divorce; his wife left him while in Logansport "she had a bad disposition, was cross and ugly" and "never had any children by me." Granted March 1880
1880 - Dec. 25 m. Ida Bangs, she was 20, he was nearly 45.
1882 - floating gallery ventured to British Columbia, along Fraser River, stayed 7 mos.
1884 - Mar. floating gallery advertised for sale.
1885 - Denver, CO assisting bro.-in-law C. C. Wright.
1895 - Ida d. leaving him with 3 children; 1900 and 1903 2 older children d.
1899 - Skaguay, Alaska operating Pullman Photographic Gallery.
1903 - DRJ and surviving daughter, Hazle, moved to Oakland CA
1906 - Santa Maria, CA first in parnership with E. K. Shull, later set up own gallery in Exchange Hotel which burned to ground in 1908.
1908? - opened Santa Maria Studio
1909 - Dec. 11 d. of "general senile debility"
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OriginalSource: Judkins Journal, "The Judkins Photographers," by Polly S. Weaver, March and June 1991, p. 50-53: DRJ worked in Ftichburg, MA succeeding to studio of W. H. Lane in 1868.   There is a gap in his career 1850-1864 - perhaps he was in Mass. during this period because his family lived in Lawrence.
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OriginalSource: Judkins Journal, "The Judkins Photographers," by Polly S. Weaver, March and June 1991, p. 50-53: in 1864 DRJ was in San Francisco studio with A. B. Hamor as partner; next in Downieville for 6 mos. of 1866, an ad there stated that he had over 8 yrs. experience taking pictures, Hamor joined him in Downieville for several months and tended studio while DRJ photographed in Gibsonville and Saw Pit Flat taking "Sun pearl, porcelain and ambrotype pictures."
In 1868 worked in Fitchburg MA; 1870 in Illinois.
Sometime during career perhaps during this next period, he worked out of Mendocino, CA making stereographs.
1903 - Oakland, CA: conducted studio on Market St. for several yrs.
1906 - by end of 1906 studio in Santa Maria, CA first in partnership with E. D. Shull; soon set up own gallery in Exchange Hotel which burned to ground in 1908; reopened business calling it "The Santa Maria Studio" continuing there until death on 11 Dec. 1909.
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OriginalSource: Judkins Journal, "The Judkins Photographers," by Polly S. Weaver, March and June 1991, p. 36: operated Judkins' Tintype and Ferrotype Gallery in Rockford, IL, set up housekeeping with his wife's mother & brother. This arrangement lasted short time for by 1871 Atchley's Tintype and Ferrotype Gallery was advertised as "formerly Judkins."
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OriginalSource: Judkins Journal, "The Judkins Photographers," by Polly S. Weaver, March and June 1991, p. 50-51: a gap appears between 1870 when he was in Rockford, IL and when he was Logansport, IN. Possibly came to Indiana because brother Lorenzo was in Indy and sister and brother-in-law Charles C. and Sarah Wright were in Lafayette DRJ, describing himself as "of California" began advertising in Logansport newspapers that he had taken over "Fetter's Old Stand." By Feb. 1878 DRJ was becoming restless again and Harry Fetter returned to take possession of his "old stand". In divorce papers he claimed that his wife had left him while they were living in Logansport to return to her folks in Rockford, IL.
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OriginalSource: Judkins Journal, "The Judkins Photographers," by Polly S. Weaver, March and June 1991, p. 50-53: In about 187 or 1879 DRJ moved to Puget Sound area of Washington Territory and somewhere bought or had made a lfloating photographic gallery. It was small studio and darkroom plus living quarters built on a scow which was towed from port to port around the Sound. Once it reached its destination is was tied alongside a wharf or hauled onto land or the building itself could be removed from the scow and set up nearby. It was called "The Floating Sunbeam Gallery" or Judkins' Floating Photographic Gallery," but newspaper notices also referred to it as "The Cottage Gallery."   It was reported at such places as Port Gamble, Utsalady, Snohomish City, Tulalip, Stanwood, LaConner and the SAn Juan Islands. A photo of rig appears in the article and the article states that several photographs of the gallery, taken over the years, show it in different configurations. "I suspect that it's size increased with the needs of the growing family." In March 1884 the floating gallery was advertised for sale. It's ultimate fate unknown.
1880s-90s worked in Seattle, building a home there.
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OriginalSource: Judkins Journal, "The Judkins Photographers," by Polly S. Weaver, March and June 1991, p. 50-53: In 1885 the Denver, CO CD shows that DRJ was there assisting his brother-in-law, C. C. Wright
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OriginalSource: Judkins Journal, "The Judkins Photographers," by Polly S. Weaver, March and June 1991, p. 50-53 In 1899 worked briefly in Skaguay [now spelled Skagway], Alaska operating the Pullman Photographic Gallery. Photo of DRJ in this studio p. 52.
Biographies of Western Photographers, p. 30: David Roby Judkins, Active in Skagway, AK, ca. 1880-1909.
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