Excerpt from Memorial Volume, Commemorative of the Life and Life-Work of Charles Benjamin Dudley, Ph.D: Late President of the International Association for Testing Materials and of the American Society for Testing Materials<br><br>Charles Benjamin Dudley, Son of Daniel and Miranda (bemis) Dudley, was born at Oxford, Chenango County, New York, July 14, 1842. He was descended on both sides from sturdy New England stock, his father being a native of New Hampshire and his mother of Connecticut. In the trend of the westward movement of that period, his parents had come to join the host of New England settlers in New York state.<br><br>By the contemporaries of his boyhood boyhood and days, Dr. Dudley is remembered as a boy full school days. Of life and fun, fond of sports, and a general favorite. His early youth was given over largely to rugged labor in field and shop, with such educational advantages as the country school, and later the Oxford Academy and Collegiate Institute, afforded. His parents, to whom his allegiance through life was one of absolute, childlike devotion, were staunch Methodists, and it was in that faith that he was reared. In later years, in the remodeling of the Oxford Metho dist Church, he had a memorial window installed in honor of his father and mother, who had worshipped there for many years. The pastor at that time, Rev. A. W. Cooper, had been his classmate at Yale.<br><br>Dr. Dudley's pronounced literary tastes - which were to him a never-failing source of enjoyment and inspiration, and to which his breadth Of view was doubtless largely due stood out clearly in his early youth. To attend the meetings of a literary society to which he belonged, he was wont to trudge a mile and a half from his home to the village. On one occasion, remem bered by his family to this day, he braved a fierce blizzard on his homeward trip despite the protestations of his friends, for fear that his sick mother might worry over his absence over night.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.