Background
Hudson was born in Lynn, Massachusetts to John and Elizabeth C. (nee Hilliard) Hudson.
Businessman lawyer solicitor Vice-President
Hudson was born in Lynn, Massachusetts to John and Elizabeth C. (nee Hilliard) Hudson.
He made Bachelor of Laws in 1865 and was admitted to the bar the following year.
He made Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College in 1862 as valedictorian. He then joined the Boston law firm Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer, where he became partner in 1870. In 1878 the firm dissolved, and he became counsel for the American Bell Telephone Company in 1880, later known as American Telephone & Telegraph Company. He became solicitor, vice president on November 29, 1886, and president on April 1, 1889.
Hudson married Eunice Healey, daughter of Wells and Elizabeth (nee Pickering) Healey, from Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, on August 23, 1871.
He was a fellow: the American Academy of the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the British Association for the Advancement of Science the New England Historic Genealogical Society (where he became vice-president) the Colonial Society of Massachusetts the Bostonian Society the Lynn Historical Society the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Boston Bar Association the Virginia Historical Society the American Antiquarian Society (since April 1894) Hudson died in Beverly, Massachusetts.