Whitcomb L. Judson He ultimately never saw much success in the "clasp-locker" as a fashion item during his lifetime. Judson made a "C-curity" clasp-locker fastener in 1905 which was an improved version of his previous patents. It tended to break open unexpectedly like the predecessors. Clothing manufacturers showed little interest in Judson's fastener perhaps because of this reason. An improved version of 1896 came with Judson made his invention to save people the trouble of buttoning and unbuttoning their shoes every day as shows in his wording in the patent application. He describes this in his patent U.S.P. 557,207 In 1913 the zipper
Alice Judson the last 30 years of her life she maintained a studio in New York City at West 37th Street. Judson was a member of the Society of Independent Artists and the National Academy of Woman Painters and Sculptors Alice Judson died on April 3, 1948, and is buried at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Cemetery in Beacon. Alice Judson Alice Judson (1876–1948) was an American painter who specialized in landscapes of Dutchess County and seascapes of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Judson was born in Beacon, New York. She, along with her follow artist Carolyn Mase studied with impressionist landscape painter John Henry Twachtman