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Subject: Obit lookup, please - Alonzo James Madison Hudson, d, 4 Oct 1898
Date: 17 Dec 2004 13:36:32 -0700
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That isn't a typo. Mr. Hudson died before the turn of the last century. I'm trying to find out his parents. I'm hoping that the library's collection goes back 106 years and some kind-hearted soul will look him up for me. I'm trying to find out his parents. This is what I've found so far, starting with the couple I think are his parents. Alonzo is in the last paragraph.
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History of Addison County
available on-line through Middlebury College,
http://cat.middlebury.edu/search/
Smith, Jacob, (Vergennes(, was born in Shaftsbury, Bennington county, Vt., in April, 1804. He was in early life a tanner and currier, but later a farmer. He has been alderman of his town, and also colonel of the State militia.
He was married in 1834 to Mary Hudson, who was born in Putney, Vt., in 1805. Mrs. Smith resided in the family of Deacon Bingham for many years in early life. They had a family of eight children born to them, six of whom are now [1886] living --
Eliza S.,
Mary G.,
Isaac H.,
George O.,
Helen L.,
Susan S., and Jane F.
One daughter died, leaving a widower and one daughter - Eliza S. Tuthill.
[Note there are just seven children in the list. I suspect one child died before it could be named, and "Jane F." there is Jannie / Jeanie / Jennie Frances, who marries Richard Stanley Tuthill in 1868 and dies in 1872. The IGI has a Jacob O. Smith born to this couple. He might be the child who died in infancy, or the IGI might be mistaken.]
Mary (Hudson) Smith's father, Joseph Hudson, was in the War of 1812, and died in 1815. Her mother, Abigail (Morse) Hudson, died in 1840.
She left a family of six children, four of who are now living --
Mary,
William,
Henry, and
Alonzo.
Henry and Alonzo are prominent clergymen of the Episcopal order, and William Hudson is a farmer. Mrs. Smith now resides with her daughters Helen L. and Susan S.
Jacob Smith was a son of Isaac and Mary (Galusha) Smith.
[End of Article on Joseph and Abigail]
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The $64 question: Are this pair the same as the Henry and Alonzo above, "prominent clergymen of the Episcopal order" ?
Volume V
Johnson, Rossiter, ed.
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904.
Volume V
page 406
HUDSON, Henry Norman, Shaksperian scholar, was born in Cornwall, Vt., Jan. 28, 1814. He was a baker, and subsequently a wheelright, and was graduated from Middlebury college, Vt., in 1840. He taught school in Kentucky, 1840-41, and in Huntsville, Ala., l841-43. He became a Shaksperian student first while in Huntsville, Ala., and delivered a course of lectures in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Boston, 1844-45. He then studied theology, was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1849, and was ordained priest in 1850.
In December, 1852, he was married to Emily S. Bright, of Northampton, Mass.
He was rector of St. Michael's church, Litchfield, Conn., 1858-60, and chaplain in the U.S. army 1862-65. He lectured on Shakspere at Wesleyan university, 1868-69, and engaged in literary work and teaching in Boston, Mass., and vicinity, 1865-82. He was editor of the Churchman, 1852-55; founded the Church Monthly, which he edited, 1856-58, and was editor of the Saturday Evening Gazette, 1867-70. He was engaged in preparing the Harvard edition of Shakspere and twenty-three of Shakspere's plays, 1873-82. Trinity college conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1847, and Middlebury college, that of LL.D. in 1881.
Henry Norman Hudson is the author of: Lectures on Shakspeare (2 vols.. 1848); The Works of Shakespeare, with Notes, Introduction and Life (edited. 11 vols., 1851-56): A Chaplain's Campaign with General Butler (1865); Plays of [p.406] Shakespeare, prepared for the use in schools (1870-72-74); Shakespeare, his Life, Art, and Characters, with an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Drama in England (1872); Sermons (1874); Text Book of Poetry (1875); Text Book of Prose (1876); The Harvard Shakespeare (edited, 1880); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1880-81); Text Book of Prose (1881); General Butler's Campaign on the Hudson (2d ed., 1883); Essays on Education, English Studies and Shakespeare (1884); Studies in Wordsworth, and other Papers (1884); and numerous discourses and pamphlets. He died at Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 16, 1886.
His brother, Alonzo James Madison Hudson, born April 2, 1817, graduated at Franklin and Marshall college, 1844; was a clergyman in German Reformed church, 1844-60, and priest in the P.E. church 1860-98; was married, March 28, 1848, to Mary Theresa, daughter of Dr. James B. Finley, of South Bend, Ind., and died in Denver, Colo., Oct. 4, 1898.
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