Transcribed from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Hudson, an incorporated town of Stafford county, is situated in Hayes township on the Missouri Pacific R. R., about 10 miles northeast of St. John, the county seat. It has a bank, a money order postoffice with one rural route, a weekly newspaper (the Patriot), grain elevators, a flour mill, a creamery, a cement stone works, telephone connections with the surrounding towns, telegraph and express offices and a large retail trade in all lines of merchandise. Hudson was incorporated in 1908 and in 1910 reported a population of 253.

Page 878 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.