HUDSON, HENRY W., son of Joseph T. and Lydia, (FARNHAM) HUDSON,
was born in Concord, Vermont, in 1844. His father was a carpenter and farmer,
and a lifelong and respected citizen of Concord. Henry’s education was
obtained at the common and select schools of his native town. During his
minority he taught successfully four terms of school in Concord and Waterford,
and learned the carpenter's trade of his father. For several years after
attaining his majority he was engaged in mechanical pursuits, for two years
conducting the sash and blind business, meanwhile building the M. E. church
at West Concord. After clerking a few months in a general store, Mr. HUDSON
bought the merchant tailor business of C. P. DAY at West Concord, in 1872,
which he conducted there until 1876, and which has become his life-work,
and in which his success has determined his fitness. Mr. HUDSON removed
from West Concord to Brookfield, Massachusetts, where he remained in trade
four years.
An accomplished vocalist, he was chorister of church choirs both
at West Concord and Brookfield. He settled in Providence, Rhode Island,
in 1880, and there applied his natural mechanical ingenuity and his experience
of years as a merchant tailor in the invention and introduction of the
well-known Hudson system of cutting garments. In 1893 he closed out his
business at Providence and gave his entire time to teaching his system
to the trade, traveling extensively in the West, with headquarters for
four years at San Francisco. He returned east in 1898, and after spending
a year in Boston, located at St. Johnsbury in March, 1899.
He occupies a fine suite of rooms in Avenue House block, employs
seven assistants, and gives his constant and careful personal attention
to the details of the business. He devotes his exclusive attention to high
class tailoring, in which line he has a high and well-merited reputation
as an expert, and is doing the leading business in town.
Mr. HUDSON married in 1867 Hannah A., daughter of Jonathan and Roxana
(LADD) ADAMS of Waterford, Vermont. Three children have been born to them;
Charles E., a successful music teacher in South Framingham, Massachusetts,
Gertrude (deceased) and Nina Pearl, who is a teacher in the commercial
college of New Britain, Connecticut.
Mr. HUDSON is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a Knight Templar
of Palestine commandery.
Source: Successful Vermonters,
William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical Publishing Company,
1904, page 85-86.
Prepared
by Tom Dunn April 2005
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