Everett Eugene Hudson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 603-604 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				EVERETT EUGENE HUDSON. 

	Everett Eugene Hudson, active in the real-estate and loan 
business and banking circles, making his home in the city of Yankton, 
was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, December 15, 1838, his parents being 
Henry and Lydia Arnold (Fenner) Hudson. He supplemented his early 
educational training by a high-school course in Chicago, Illinois, and 
on the 4th of January, 1859, was graduated from the Bryant & Stratton 
Commercial College of that city. Early in his business career he became 
connected with mercantile pursuits and was also known as a trader, 
contractor and sutler at the Crow Creek and Brule Sioux Indian 
agencies. He was also at Fort Thompson on the Missouri river in South 
Dakota from 1865 until 1878 inclusive and then, settling in Yankton, 
engaged in the real-estate and loan business, in which he continued 
from 1879 until 1883. In the latter year he became a partner in the 
banking firm of Edmunds, Hudson & Company and so remained until 1886. 
In 1887 he resumed activity in the field of real estate and farm loans 
and so continues to the present time. He has had the reverses of the 
average business man, but on the whole has been successful, winning a 
fair measure of prosperity. He has negotiated a number of prominent 
real-estate deals and made extensive loans, which have contributed to 
the upbuilding of the county. In a business and financial way he has 
largely furthered enterprises that have tended toward the uplift and 
benefit of the city and his cooperation has been a factor in Yankton's 
moral and educational progress and civic standing. In addition to his 
real-estate and loan business he was a director of the Yankton Artesian 
Well & Mining Company from 1882 until 1886, during which time they 
developed the first flowing well in the two Dakotas. He was also a 
member of the Yankton Ferry Company. 

	At the time of the Civil war Mr. Hudson became a private in 
Chicago Mercantile Battery of light artillery and was active during 
three years' service, or until the close of the war, participating in 
the engagements at Chickasaw Bayou, Haines Bluff, Arkansas Post, Port 
Gibson, Raymond, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, the sieges of 
Vicksburg and Jackson all of which occurred in Mississippi in 1863, and 
the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, Louisiana, in 1864, his "soldier's 
discharge" bearing evidence of his active participation in eleven 
battles. At different periods in his life he has filled public offices 
and again has demonstrated his loyalty and fidelity to public duty. At 
the age of twenty-tug years he was made city clerk of Wilmington, 
Illinois, and was postmaster of the Crow Creek agency, then in Dakota 
territory, from 1870 until 1878, during which period he also served as 
notary public. He was a delegate to the republican territorial 
convention, which met at Grand Forks, now in North Dakota, in 1883. 
Something of the nature and breadth of his interests is indicated in 
the feet that he was made a delegate to the Lakes to Gulf Deep Water 
Convention in 1909 and to the conservation congress at Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, in 1910. He served as a member of the Yankton city board of 
education from 1886 until 1911, or for a period of twenty-five 
consecutive years, and for three years was its president. He was also 
on the county board in 1882 and 1883 and thus along various lines and 
in many effective ways has supported those projects and measures which 
are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride. He is now a member of the 
Yankton College board of trustees and early became a member of the 
Yankton Board of Trade, later merged into the Commercial Club. being 
identified with that organization for thirty-five years, or from 1878 
until 1914. In politics all independent republican, Mr. Hudson has 
always supported the candidates who have promised most for economy, 
efficiency and the best interests of the people. 

	On the 8th of October, 1874, at Rockford, Illinois, was 
celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hudson and Miss Clara Elizabeth Warner, 
a daughter of Alfred and Rachel (Sampson) Warner. She passed away July 
31, 1896. Mr. Hudson has long been a valued representative of the 
Protestant Episcopal faith and has acted as vestryman of Christ church 
of Yankton from 1879 until the present time, or for thirty-six 
consecutive years. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and 
of the Union Veterans Union, and thus maintains friendly relations with 
his old army comrades. He is a member of the Yankton County Fair 
Association, of which he was for several years a director, and thus 
along various lines have his efforts been put forth for the benefit and 
upbuilding of the district in which he lives. From an early period in 
its development he has borne his part in all the work of public 
progress and has maintained an unassailable reputation for business 
integrity as well as enterprise, while in public office he has ever 
placed the general welfare before partisanship and the public good 
before personal aggrandizement.