The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-06

family with the exception of one
brother. Samuel Hudson, of Orlando,
Fla. Those present at the death bed
were the generals wife; his two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Dell Keizer and Mrs. William
c. Smith; his son, Paul Hudson, of the
City of Mexico. and a brother, Franklin
Hudson. of Kansas City Melville Hud-
son, a third brother of the generals,
died a short time ago at his home in
Kansas City, Mo.
General Hudson's illness dates back to
the middle of last December when he
was taken sick suddenly at a hotel at
Versailles, Mo At this place General
Hudson was engaged in the mining and
real estate business. His ailment at the
time he was taken i'll was diagnosed as
acute Indigestion. 1t developed rapidly
into angina pectoris, or neuralgia of the
heart. After being sick for a week at
Versailles, General Hudson was brought
to Topeka and for some time after
reaching home his recovery seemed
doubtful. His strong constitution brught
him through however, and he was able
to be about on the streets within a few
days after he had been at his worst.
He returned to Versailles a few days
after he was able to be out. After
few weeks there he closed out such bus
mess interests as he had there and re-
turned to Topeka intending to make
his permanent home here again. He was
in a debilitated condition when he re-
turned home and dropsy, induced by the
Since that time when there was a gen
eral breakdown General Hudson began
to fail rapidly but it was not until the
middle of last week that his family
gave up hope.
General Hudson died one day after
he was 81 years old.
Sketch of His Life.
Joseph Kennedy Hudson was born in
Carrollton, Carroll county, Ohio, 81
years ago. Soon after his birth the
family moved to Salem, where the faith
er believed there was a greater open
ing for a printing establishment and
for a newspaper. His father was the
editor and owner of the Anti-Slavery
Bugle for many years, and after he
was II years of age Joseph Hudson
spent most of his time in his fathers
printing office, learning the trade thor
oughly.
The young man was always radical
abolitionist and his early training was
in the hotbed of the anti-slavery forces.
In school, in church and in his fathers
office about all he heard was of the ini-
quities of the slave traffic, and in the
later sos the young man himself Joined
the John Brown league and determined
to do all that he could to stamp out
slavery With few friends from
Salem he came to Kansas with Jim"
Lane, and in 1861 he enlisted in Com
pany c, Third regiment of Kansas vol
unteers at Fort Leavenworth. year
later the Third and Fourth regiments
were consolidated into the Tenth Kan
sas and Hudson was made first lieu
tenant in Company G of the new or
ganization.
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.
Decem ber 21, 1863 he was made ma
jor of the Sixty-second United States
negro infantry, the appointment being
made for excellent service as an aid
and staff officer in the frontier army.
When the promotion came with it was
an order to proceed with his regiment
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