Kenneth Gridley Judson (d. 1970) was a Navy veteran and commodity broker whose family was one of the founders of Forest Hills Gardens.
Judson was born in Stratford, CT and graduated from the United States Naval Academy just before World War I. In 1918 he received his commission as Ensign in the War, at which point his home was listed as Slocum Crescent in Forest Hills.
Following the war, he returned to Queens and joined his uncle William H. Judson's cotton brokerage firm, Judson & Co., through which he also later served the New York Cotton Exchange.
Judson called Forest Hills home for 65 years. He was president of the Forest Hills Gardens Corporation for several years, and was a member of the West Side Tennis Club, the Sons of the Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the American Revolution.
On May 27, 1970, Judson passed away at the age of 75 at his home at 61 Olive Place (now Fleet Street). He was survived by his wife, Carolyn, and two sons and three grandchildren.
"Kenneth Judson, 75, Commodity Broker," The New York Times, May 28, 1970
"Dowdell Heads Cotton Exchange," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 7, 1932, via Brooklyn Newsstand
"Kenneth Judson, An Ensign," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 7, 1918, via Brooklyn Newsstand