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2021.034.0001Description
Elder Alexander Nicholson Hudson as an aged man. He was born on Dec. 18, 1814 in New York. He was converted when a very young man and was a circuit preacher in New York and Pennsylvania before coming to Michigan in 1853. He settled in Branch County and was ordained and became a member of the Southern Michigan Wesley Methodist Conference of which he was until his death in 1910. He enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 as a member of the First New York Mounted Rifles in the Civil War. He fill from his horse and was injured in 1863 so was transferred from active service to the contraband department on a plantation of 800 acres with 600 colored people to look after. After getting permission from the War Dept. Elder Hudson married 420 couples of colored people that year. He married 60 couples on his busiest day. Elder Hudson came to Lowell in 1866 and devoted the rest of his life to evangelistic work, conducting great revivals in the old fashioned way. He lived in Segwun near the Grand Trunk Depot.Materials
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Lowell, MI
(had as donor)