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COREY, JUDSON ALBERT (1870-1952)

COREY, JUDSON ALBERT, Baptist minister, Doaktown field, 1935-42; b. Hodgdon, Me, 1 Aug 1870, s/o Alfred E. Corey and Lucretia Kierstead, both natives of Kings Co., N.B.; m. 1900, Eliza Alice Howlett, a native of London, England; d. St Stephen, N.B., 22 Nov 1952.

Judson A. Corey grew up at Knowlesville, Carleton Co., N.B., where his parents settled when he was a child. As a young man he went to New Hampshire, and then to Maine, where he entered the ministry. After conducting a mission for two years in Auburn and Lewiston, Me, he came back to New Brunswick in 1910. He was ordained the next year and held pastorates in six rural fields in the province over a period of thirty-seven years. In 1933-34 he was honored with the presidency of the Maritime United Baptist Convention.

Corey came to Doaktown from Keswick Ridge in 1935 and stayed for seven years. His preaching was characterized by "a genuine naturalness of manner," and "not the least among his virtues was his humor." He was always mentally alert and eager to engage in the discussion of important issues. People found him to be both a good minister and a genial companion. In 1942 he was called to Rusagonis for a second time.

In 1946 Corey's wife, Eliza A. Howlett, was made the recipient of an honorary MA by Acadia University, in recognition of the ministerial support given by her and the wives of other rural pastors. Corey's last church was on Campobello Island, and he retired at Wilson's Beach in 1948. When he died in hospital in St Stephen in 1952, at age eighty-two, his survivors were his wife, five daughters, and three sons.

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[b/m/d] Courier 18 Dec 1952 / Acadia archives; Maritime Baptist 24 Jul 1946, 11 Sep 1946, 20 Oct 1948, 3 Dec 1952, 17 Dec 1952


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