Essex

HUDSON, Solomon S.

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 214

Solomon S. HUDSON, of East Haven [Essex County, Vermont], was born 22 July 
1836 in Athens [Windham County, Vermont], son of Calvin and Philomelia 
(POWERS) HUDSON. He was an industrious pupil of the public schools, and 
made the best use of his limited opportunities to obtain an education. At 
the early age of nineteen he took himself a wife, and with this 
responsibility commenced to clear a farm in the unbroken wilderness, carrying 
his worldly possessions on his back. In this enterprise he was engaged five 
years, when he was summoned to the field by the outbreak of the Civil War. 
In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, Tenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers. He 
remained in the army about three years, most of the time on detached service, 
and was discharged when the regiment was mustered out. Returning to his farm 
at the close of the war, he remained there until 1886, when he moved to his 
present location in East Haven village, and has since been engaged in general 
trade.

Mr. HUDSON has held many responsible positions in town, having been for many 
years justice of the peace and selectman. He represented East Haven in 1880, 
and under a Republican administration received the appointment of postmaster, 
a position which he worthily filled for six years. He has received the first 
three degrees of the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of Island Pond 
Lodge, No. 44. He also belongs to Erastus Buck Post, Grand Army of the 
Republic, of that place. He stands prominently forth in the community as a 
moral, industrious, and energetic man of good judgment and ability. In 1855 
he [Solomon S. HUDSON] married Eunecia L., daughter of Russell and Almira 
HOSFORD. She died 29 January 1881. He contracted a second alliance with 
[Miss?] Lydia GERO, daughter of Holden and Viantha PARTLOW.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly