Biographical Sketch of Benjamin F. Hudson, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Benjamin F. Hudson, collector of Wright County, Mo., was born in Shelby
County, Illinois, in November, 1847.  He is a son of Franklin and
Margaret (Perryman) Hudson, and the maternal grandson of Allen Perryman
who was a native of Tennessee, but who immigrated to Illinois, and
afterward to Missouri, where he died in Wright County, at the age of 
eighty-six years.  Franklin Hudson was born and reared in South Caro-
lina, and when a young man immigrated to Illinois, where he married 
Miss Perryman, who is yet living, and who resides in Wright County. 
Franklin Hudson was one of the popular educators of South Carolina 
before he left that state, and followed that avocation after coming to
Illinois for about fourteen years.  He then turned his attention to
farming, which he carried on until his death, which occurred in the
last named state.  Benjamin F. Hudson was the second of seven children,
six now living.  He attained his growth in Shelby County, Ill., and
received a good practical education in the common schools.  In 1866 he
immigrated to Missouri, and after one year in Pulaski County located 
in Wright County, and there he has since resided.  He followed school 
teaching for eight years, and, like his father, was a very popular
educator.  At the end of the above mentioned time, or in 1880, he was
elected county assessor, and was re-elected two years later, serving
altogether four years.  In 1884 he was elected county collector, and
received the unanimous nomination of his party.  He was re-elected 
collector in 1886, and because of having filled the period denominated
by law, retired, and was no longer a candidate.  In March, 1869, he was
married to Miss Matilda Williams, a native of Missouri, and the daugh-
ter of Benjamin and Mary Williams, natives of Indiana, who came to
Missouri at an early date, and located in Wright County.  Mr. Williams
was a Federal soldier, and died at Marshfield, while serving during the
Civil War.  Mrs. Williams is still alive.  Benjamin F. Hudson is the 
father of five children living: Benjamin, Elizabeth, Minnie, Mary and
John.  One child, unnamed, died in infancy.  Mr. Hudson is a member of
the Missionary Baptist Church, and is a Republican in his political
principles.

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