Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Henry HUDSON, farmer, P. O. Wilmington; was born in Huntingdon Co., Penn., and is the son of 
Mathew and Sarah (COOK) HUDSON; Mr. HUDSON, when he was but 3 years old, with his parents, 
moved to Trumbull Co., Ohio; his father was a farmer; here he set out in farming, and, when 
17 years of age, he commenced to learn the carpenter and joiner trade; this he followed while 
in Ohio; in 1846, he came to Illinois, and settled in Wilmington, Will Co.; here, in this 
vicinity, he has remained ever since; Mr. HUDSON, before there was a railroad in the vicinity, 
was engaged in carrying the U. S. mail from Wilmington, Will Co., to Pontiac, Livingston Co., 
for nine years. Married twice; first wife Lydia A. FENNER, of New York; second wife, Mariah 
BELL, of Ohio; six children. Mr. HUDSON had three sons in the late war, who participated in 
some of the hard-fought battles, and were honorably discharged.