Judd Lesser Learns Conservative Values

The Republican Party was born in North America’s Midwest in opposition to the expansion of slavery. Republicanism emerged as the dominant force throughout the North of the United States. The Party is one of the two major political parties of the United States, and reflects traditional Midwestern values of thrift, a hard work ethic, self-reliance, democratic decision making, and religious tolerance. Judd Lesser grew up amid the conservatism of the area.

In the 1850’s, the notion of popular sovereignty resulted in stiff abolitionist sentiment which pitted itself stubbornly against any possibility of another state entering the Union as pro-slavery. The dividing line of the Ohio River between North and South became a battleground between abolitionists and pro-slavery elements. Meanwhile, European immigrants poured into the predominantly rural Midwest, which perched on the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, which would see manufacturing, retail, printing, publishing, food processing and finance dominate in the Midwest, a dominance which continued in the youth of Judd Lesser.

The regional characteristics of the original old Northwest Territories are still evident as the legacy of the Midwest’s beginnings. Northwestern University in Illinois is a historical homage to the origins of the Midwest. The promise of the rich soil of the Midwestern Lowlands continues to drive the economy of the region, with billions of dollars in exports and generating thousands of jobs. The Midwest produces the richest farming land in the world, with consistent abundance of corn, wheat, soybeans, oats and barley, continually earning its nickname of the Nation’s Breadbasket. Judd Lesser would have felt the endless fertility of the region of his boyhood.

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Judd Lesser Inherits Rich Legacy from Ancient Midwestern Tribes

The Mississippian cultures of the ancient Midwest of Judd Lesser were farmers who concentrated along the flat floodplains of Midwestern rivers.  Cultivation consisted primarily of maize, beans and squash.  Seeds, nuts, berries, fishing and hunting helped support large populous centers of Indian culture. A population decline coincided with global climate change in the Little Ice Age around 1400.

 The Great Lakes tribes of pre-colonial times were primarily the Hurons, Ottawa, Chippewas, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, Winnebago, Menominees, Sacs, Neutrals, Fox and Miami, and the names of numerous landmarks and towns known to Judd Lesser reflect those ancient cultures.  Most of the tribes spoke variations of Algonquian.  The Oneida and the Ho-Chunk are the only tribes which spoke Iroquois le, regarded as Siouan.  There was no written language among the tribes.  Canoes were used for fishing, and projectiles and tools were created of stone, bone and wood.  Most tribes lived in wigwams which were easily moved.  Most tribes were inclined to engage in communal hunts for buffalo on the prairies, and tribes formed trade networks which extended east to the Atlantic, South to the Gulf of Mexico, North to the Great Lakes and West as far as the Rockies.

Midwestern tribes varied in methods of descent.  The Hurons descended through the female line, while others were patrilineal.  Some tribes’ social and political lives were simpler than that of others.  Religious beliefs varied widely.  Hurons adhered to a supernatural being, Yoscaha, who lived in the sky.  Chippewas believed in the Great Spirit and regarded religion as highly individual.  Judd Lesser would have known of the Great Spirit beliefs from school history classes.

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Modern ‘Operator for the Teeth’ Judd Lesser

Dentistry was not an established profession in the Middle Ages or well into the 19th century, when work with human oral issues and teeth was often a sideline of barbers or physicians.  The instruments used were the pelican for extractions, and then the dental key, which was eventually replaced by forceps.  The first dental textbook was not written until 1685, called ‘Operator for the Teeth’, of historical interest to dentists like Judd Lesser today.


The father of modern dentistry, French surgeon Pierre Fauchard, innovated the first surgical instruments in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, adapting dental tools from those used by watch makers, jewelers and barbers.  Fauchard pioneered the use of fillings for cavities, and pinpointed sugar derivatives as the source of dental decay.  Fouchard also asserted that tumors appeared on teeth and gums as a result of advanced tooth decay.  Methods of replacing lost teeth included carved blocks of ivory or bone and the first dental braces were included in Fauchard’s dental experiments.  Fauchard’s book, ‘The Surgeon Dentist’ of 1728, recorded his successful dental inventions and procedures, still quite recognizable, effective instruction today by dental specialists like Dr. Judd Lesser.

British surgeon John Hunter experimented with tooth transplants in the 1760’s, with mixed results.  Although meeting with no long term success, Hunter established the beginnings of implants, a specialty of Dr. Judd Lesser today.  Dentistry evolved into a profession in the 19th century, and the Dentist Act of 1878 regulated the industry.   Dentistry experienced a major elevation when the President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Francis Brodie Imlach, a dentist, was elected in 1879.

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