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supreme court of "Wisconsin from Aug. 28, 1848, to June 18, 1851, and chief justice to June 1, 1853, when articles of impeachment were preferred on charges of acts of corrupt conduct and malfeas- ance in office. The legislature convened June 6, 1853, that the senate might sit as a court of im- peachment, and the assembly presented the charges and the trial continued till July 13, 1853, when the senate decided that the charges had not been sustained and the chief justice was acquit- ted. He resigned his seat on the bench in 1856, and was succeeded by Alexander W. Randall. He was elected as a War Democrat a member of the state assembly in 1864, and was U.S. district attorney, 1871-75, by appointment of President Grant. He died in Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 8, 1876.

HUDE, James, jurist, was born in Woodbridge, Middlesex county, N.J., Aug. 14, 1695; son of Adam and Marion Hude. Adam Hude was born in Scotland in 1661, sailed from Leith for America with two hundred of his banished and oppressed countrymen, Sept. 5, 1685, on the Henry and Francis, which was fever-stricken on the voyage and lost by death seventy of its passengers and crew. They landed at Perth Amboy, N.J., and Adam Hude resided on Staten Island until 1695, when he purchased land at Woodbridge, two miles north of Perth Amboy, N.J. He was a member of the provincial assembly of New Jersey, 1701; judge of the court of common pleas 1718-33 and presiding judge of tiie court and master in chancery. He was married in 1686 to a fellow passenger on the Henry and Francis, and they had two sons: Robert, member of the provincial assembly, 1740-42, judge of the court of common pleas, died, July 30, 1748; and James, who was a merchant in New Brunswick, 1726; first recorder of the city of New Brunswick; judge of the court of common pleas, 1732-48; member of the provincial assembly, 1738; mem- ber of the governor's council, 1738-46, 1761-63; trustee of Rutgers college; master in chancery, and mayor of New Brunswick. James Hude was married to Mary Johnson and their son James was a trustee of Rutgers college. Of their daughters: Mary married Robert Livingston, Catharine married Cornelius Lowe, Anne mar- ried Ravand, son of Philip Kearny and Lad^' Barney Dexter, and Susannah married AYilliam Neilson, a shipi:)ing merchant. James Hude died in New Brunswick, N.J., Nov. 1, 1762.

HUDSON, Charles, representative, was born in Marlborough, Mass., Nov. 14, 1795; son of Stephen and Louisa (Williams) Hudson: grand- son of John and Elizabeth (McAllister) Hudson, and of Larkin and Anna (Warren) Williams, and a descendant of Daniel Hudson, who came from England to New England about 1639. His father entered the Continental army at the age

of sixteen, and after three j-ears' service, shipped on board a privateer which crviised on the coast of Great Britain, Spain and Portugal, and was captux'ed by the British. He was imprisoned for a time in Philadelphia. Charles Hudson was given a good education, taught school, studied theology, and was a Universalist preacher at Westminster, Mass., 1819-39. He was a state representative, 1828-33; a state senator, 1833-39; a member of the executive council, 1839-41; a member of the state board of education, 1837-45; a representative in the 27th, 28th, 29tli and 30th congresses, 1841-49, where he opposed the war with Mexico, and all appropriations to carry it on. He was naval officer of the port of Boston, 1849-53; editor of the Boston Daily Atlas, and U.S. assessor of internal revenue, 1864-68. He pre- sided at the centennial celebration of the battle of Lexington in 1875. He is the author of: Letters to Rev. Hosea Ballon (1827); Reply to Walter Balfour (1829); History of Westminster (1832); Doubts Concerning the Battle of Bunker Hill (1857); Historical Address at the Centennial at Westminster (1859); History of Marlborough (1802); History of Lexington (1868). He died in Lexington, Mass., May 4, 1881.

HUDSON, Erasmus Darwin, surgeon, was born in Torringford. Conn., Dec. 15, 1805. He was graduated at Berkshire Medical college in 1827, and jsractised in Bloomfield, Conn., 1827-50, and in New York city, 1850-80. He was a tem- perance lecturer, 1828-37, and lecturing agent of the Connecticut Anti-Slavery societj-, and general agent of the American Anti-slavery society, 1837- 49. He was a specialist surgeon in the "ff.S. army, 1861-65, in the treatment of gun-shot wounds affecting the bone. He was a contribu- tor to the Liberator, the Anti-Slavei~y Standard Tlie Char-ter OaJc, and to the 3Iedical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-72). He published: Artificial Limbs for the U.S. Army and Navy (1862); Mechanical Surgery (1871), and monographs on Resections (1870), Syme's Amputations (1871), Immobile Apparatus for Ununited Fractures (1872). He died at River- side, Conn., Dec. 31. 1880.

HUDSON, Erasmus Darwin, physician, was born in Nortliampton, Mass., Nov. 10, 1843; son of Dr. Erasmus Darwin Hudson. He was grad- uated at the College of the City of New York in 1864, and at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons in 1867. He was house-surgeon at the Bellevue hospital, 1867-68; health inspector of New Y'ork, 1869-70, and attending physician to the Northwestern dispensary, 1870-72, and to Trinity Chapel parish and Trinitj' Home, 1870-87. He was professor of the principles and practice of medicine in the Woman's Medical college of New Y^'ork Infirmary, 1872-82, and professor of gen-