SOURCE: Commemorative biographical record of the west shore of Green Bay, Wisconsin 
Microfilm of original published: Chicago : J.H. Beers, 1896. 718 p. : ports.
LDS Microfilm #0924759     Pages 624

William JUDGE is one of the representative citizens of the city of Florence, where he has resided since May 1880, at which time he came to this locality, and engaged in the lumbering, by the month.  In 1887 he embarked in the business for himself, and since that time has been remarkably successful. In the logging season he gives employment to from thirty to seventy-five men.  He is a native of Milwaukee, Wis.,  born December 23, 1857, and is a son of Dennis and Margaret (Dawson) Judge, both of whom were natives of Ireland, and who in an early day left their native land, first locating in Canada, where they were married.   From Canada they came to Wisconsin, and located in Milwaukee, from which place, in 1859, they went to the town of Franklin, Manitowoc Co., Wis., where they settled in the woods, and opened up a farm. They there continued to reside until their death, the father dying in 1872, the mother in 1891. They reared a family of five children:  James, who died in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1887; John, who resides in the city of Manitowoc, Wis.; William, our subject; Margaret, now Mrs. Dougherty, of Omaha, Neb.; and Arthur, who resides in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life, spent his boyhood and youth in Manitowoc county, Wis;, and received his education in the schools of the town of Franklin, in that county.  While yet in his "'teens" he assisted in chopping out the right of way through the heavy timber, on the Chicago and North Western railroad from Menominee, Mich., to Escanaba, Mich.  In 1880 he permanently located in Florence, being one of the first settlers of the place, has here since continued to reside, and has assisted in the organization of the county. He was sheriff of the county from 1890 to 1892.

Mr. Judge was married in 1883, at Florence, Wis., to Miss Margaret Sullivan, a widow, who is a native of Scotland.  In politics Mr. Judge is thoroughly independent, voting for such men and measures as he thinks will best advance the interests of his city and country. For fifteen years he has been prominently identified with the interests of Florence county, and to him, as much as any other one man, is due the present thriving city of Florence, and the great improvement made in the county in wealth and population. He stands well in the community, never shirks duty or responsibility, but will give of his money and time to the best interests of his adopted city and county.