Jay William Hudson

Background

Hudson, Jay William was born on March 12, 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Son of William Ingersoll and Emma (Pratt) Hudson.

Education

Student Hiram College, 1893-1895. Oberlin College, 1895. Bachelor of Arts, University of California, 1905.

A.M., 1906; A.M., Harvard, 1907, Doctor of Philosophy, 1908.

Career

Assistant in philosophy, University of California, 1904-1906, Harvard, 1907-1908. Assistant professor philosophy, University of Missouri, 1908-1911, associate professor, 1912-1913, professor, 1913-1944, John Hiram Lathrop professor, 1930-1944, professor emeritus since 1944. Lecturer, Institutions of International Understanding for Rotary International, 1944-1945.

Professor Washington University, St. Louis, summer 1945. Visiting professor, University of Kansas City, 2d semester and summer, 1945-1946. Visiting professor, Stephens College, 1945-1951, sabbatical year of philosophical research in Europe, 1930-1931.

Director education department Massachusetts Peace Society. Special lecturer American School Peace League, 1914-1915. Professor philosophy, George Peabody College for Teachers, various summer quarters.

Speaker for National Committee on Public Information and Missouri Council of Defense, 1917-1918. Commissioned captain, American Red Cross in France, 1918.

Membership

Member National advisory board, World Court League. Member National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies, National Committee Friends of Democracy. Member American Philosophical Association (chairman board of officers, 1939), Western Philosophical Association (president 1939), Missouri Academy of Science, American Association University professors, Phi Mu Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Pi Zeta, Phi Beta Kappa (president Alpha of Missouri chapter, 1940.

Member 20th Triennial Council, united chapters, San Francisco, 1940). Mason (grand orator, grand Lodge of Missouri, 1929, 44, 45). Clubs: Faculty, Rotary.

Connections

Married May Bernard Small, August 11, 1909 (died 1915). Married second, Germaine Sansot, April 14, 1918.

Father:

William Ingersoll Hudson

Mother:

Emma (Pratt) Hudson

Spouse:

Germaine Sansot

Spouse:

May Bernard Small