The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1907-05-10

on GENERAL HUDSON
CLOSED WEDNESDAY.
Lived IA Kansas Almost Han q Cen
fWy and Soldier q Two
Wars

Topeka, Nay 5.-GeneraI Joseph K
Hudson, soldier, farmer, editor, with
an illustrious career beginnig IN slaT-
cry days, died at his home in Topeka
at 1880 o'clock this morning Of drop
sy. His wife, son and two daughters
were with him at the end. The fun
eraI services viii be Tuesday after
noon
General Hudson was a worker In
the Methodist church and in the G. A
R. He had held several high offices
in the order In this state.
General Hudson was III more than
four months In the greater part OF
his time ne was confined to his home
here and for a week he was in a com
atose condition. He rallied at times
but owing TO the great pain II was
necessary TO keep him under the In
huence OF Opiates He died one day
after he was 81 years old.
To Kansas With "Jim" Lane.
Joseph Kennedy Hudson was born
IN CarrOlltOn, Carroll county, Ohio,
sixty-seven years ago. Soon after his
birth the family moved to Salem,
where the father believed there was
a greater opening for a printing estab-
lishment and Tor a newspaper. bis
father was the editor and owner Of
the Antf-Slavery Bugle for many years
and after he was II years Of age JO-
seph Hudson spent most OF his time
in his fathers printing office, learning
the trade thoroughly
The young man was always a radical
abOlitiOnist and his early training was
in the hOtbed Of the anti-slayery
forces In school, IN church and in
his fathers Office about all he heard
was Of the injustice Of the slave traf-
nc, and in the later SOS the young
league and determined to do all that
he could to stamp out slavery. With
a few friends from Salem he came to
Kansas with Jim" Lane, and in 1861
he enlisted in Company Q, Third regi-
menI OF Kansas volunteers at Fort
LeayenwOrth. A year later the Third
and Fourth regiments were cOnsOli-
dated into the Tenth Kansas and Hud-
son was made q first lieutenant in
Company Q Of the new organization
In the same year he was appointed
acting assistant adjutant general Of
the Second brigade OF the frontier
army, and in the following year he
received the same position in the first
division December q, 1863, he was
a major OF the SiXty-second United
States negro infantry, the appoint
ment being made for excellent seTY-
ice as an aid and staff officer In the
frontier army. When the promotion
came with it was an order to proceed
with his regiment down the Missis-
sippi river and pOin General Banks on
the Red river. Major Hudson served
throughout that campaign, most Of
the time as the commander Of de-
tached squads making detOurs through
the country ahead Of the main troops
He was in the last battle OF the war in
Louisiana and Immediately after mis-
discharge he returned to Kansas, in
tending to practice law in Kansas
City, but he found that there were
already too many lawyers in that
town, so he moved to a farm in the
western part Of WyandOtte county and
lived there eight years The printing
bee began buzzing again and he finally
determined to return to his former
trade He purchased in 1873 the Kan
sas Farmer, then a semi-mOnthly,
moved the office from LeavenWOrth to
Topeka and with his wife took active
charge Of the editorial and business
management Of the paper.
While q farmer in WyandOtte
county, Major General Hudson was
appointed a regent Of the State Agri-
cultural college at Manhattan by Gov
ernOr Osborne and was active in the
management OF the Institution during
the days OF its infancy. In 1871 he
was elected a member OF the house
OF representatives from the Thirty
Seventh Kansas district In 1874 he
was a candidate for United states SEN
atOr, receiving tWenty-fOur votes. The
fall following he was nominated for
congress in the Third Kansas district
by the Reform party, and made a
hard campaign, being defeated BY only
a few hundred votes.
In 1879 he sold the Farmer, then an
enlarged weekly farm paper, and in
March OF that year he started the To-
peka Capital and continued in active
control OF this paper until 1885, when
his interests were purchased by the I
Capital Publishing company.
Nay %, 1898. Major Hudson was
appointed a brigadier general OF vol
unteers by President Mckinley and
was stationed with the Fourth army
corps at Tampa, Ella, being in active /
charge Of the provisions taken to pre-
vent the decentralization OF the corps
OF the army on account OF the sick
ness which broke out in the camp.
On account Of financial matters, Ma
jOr Hudson had been compelled to sur
render the Capital TO his creditors some !
years before his appointment as a bri- 1
gadier general. On his return from |
the south after the war he was again /
placed in charge OF the editorial de-
partment and continued in charge IN
til late in 1900, when he withdrew
with his sOn-in-law, Dell Kizer, and /
two years later they formed a new
corporation which now owns and con-
trolls the TOnel-a Herald