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Shakespeare, prepared for tiie use in schools (1870-73-74); 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 Educa- tion, English Studies and Shakespeare (1884); Studies in Wordsivorth, and other Papers (1884); and numerous discourses and pamphlets. He died at Cambridge. Mass., Jan. 16, 1886.

HUDSON, John Elbridge, lawyer, was born in Lynn, Mass., Aug. 3, 1839; son of Jolin and Eliza- beth C. (Hilliard) Hudson, and a descendant of Thomas Hudson, who came from England to the Massachusetts Bay colony about 1630. Upon the farm of Thomas Hvidson, in Saugus, Mass., the first iron works in the United States were estab- lished in 1642. His maternal great-grandfather, the Rev. Samuel Hilliard, was a Universalist minister, and was a soldier of the Revolution, serving at Bunker Hill and Bennington. His other maternal great-grandfather, the Rev. Dr. Hall, a Congregational minister at Sutton for sixty years, married Elizabetli Prescott, daughter of John and Rebecca Prescott, of Concord, Mass. John Elbridge Hudson was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1862 (valedictorian); LL.B., 1865, and was tutor in Greek at Harvard, 1862-65. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1866, and entered the law oflfice of Chandler, Shattuck & Tliayer of Boston. In 1870 he became a partner in the firm, under the style of Chandler, Thayer & Hudson, after- ward Cliandler, Ware & Hudson. In 1878 the firm was dissolved, and he went into practice for himself. In 1880 he became office counsel for the American Bell Telephone comjiany in Boston; on June 25, 1885, he was chosen solicitor and general manager; on November 29, 1886, he was chosen a director of the company and made its vice-president, and on April 1, 1889, he was chosen its president, and held this office until his death. He was also i^resident of the American Telephone and Telegraph company. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Antiquarian society, the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Britisli Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, the New Erigland Historic Genealogical society, of which he was vice-presi- dent, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Bostonian society, the Lynn Historical society, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Bar Association of the City of Boston, and the Virginia Historical society. He contributed to law reviews, and with George Fred Williams.

edited Vol. 10 of the Ihiited States Digest (1879). The analysis of the law as first made m this volume was followed in a large number of the digests and indexes iu general use throughout the United States and became the basis of the classification adopted for the Century edition of the American Digest. He was married, Aug. 23, 1871, to Eunice W., daughter of AVells and Eliza- beth (Pickering) Healey, of Hampton Falls, N.H. He died at Beverly, Mass., Oct. 1, 1900.

HUDSON, Joseph Kennedy, journalist, was born in Carroll county, Ohio, May 4, 1840; son of John and Rebecca (Rothacker) Hudson. His mother's family, the Rothackers, were Pennsyl- vania Dutch. His father, of English descent, was publisher of the Western Anti-Slavery Bugle, in Salem, Ohio, and in 1860 the son became a member of the "John Brown League"' and in 1861 went to Kansas to join the brigade of General Lane. Wlien he reached Leavenworth he enlisted in the 3d Kansas volunteers and was successively promoted sergeant, second and first lieutenant in the company, and served as assistant adjutant- general of the 2d brigade and of the 1st division, Army of the Frontier. He subsequently served on the staffs of General Davies and General Scho- field, was promoted major and assigned to the 1st Missouri colored infantry, serving until July, 1865. After the war he became an extensive farmer and stock raiser in Wyandotte county, Kan. He was appointed a regent of the Kansas State Agricultural college; was appointed secre- tary of the state board of agriculture in 1870; was a representative in the state legislature, 1871; received in January, 1874, twenty-four votes for U.S. senator in the election by the legislature for a successor to Senator Caldwell, resigned; founded the Topeka Capital in 1879 and was editor-in- chief for upwards of twenty years. He was com- missioned brigadier-general of volunteers, May 27, 1898, in the war with S^jain, being attached to the 4th array corps and stationed at Tampa, Florida, and was honoi-ably discharged, Oct. 31, 1898.

HUDSON, Mary Clemmer Ames. See Ames, Mary Clemmer.

HUDSON, Thomson Jay, author and lecturer, was born in Windham, Oliio, Feb, 23, 1834; son of John and Ruth (Pulsifer) Hudson and grand- son of Matthew and Sarah (Cook) Hudson and of Jonathan and Susanna (Bradford) Pulsifer. He descended on his father's side from Edward Hud- son, who emigrated to America, and settled at Jamestown, Va., with Capt. John Smith; and on his mother's side from Gov. William Bradford, who came over in the Mayflower. Thomson at- tended the public schools of Windham, and took a college course of training under private tutors, but never entered college. He studied law. was