Known by some friends as "Daft" Hudson.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9807E0DA1539E632A25755C2A96F9C946897D6CF

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~randall/html/fam02199.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lcowen/HUDSON/HUDSON%20SCRAPBOOK/Hudson%20Scrapbook.htm

Other Sources: "Starr Family Diary" (unpublished;, The Hudson Library and Historical Society (Oviatt Archives)

David Hudson was a direct descendant of Hendrick Hudson, who discovered the Hudson River in 1609. Hendrick named his youngest son, David, and he was the sixth David in that line.

"Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes"; by Henry Howe; II:631; Laning Printing Company; Norwalk, Ohio; 1896 (977.1OH SCGS)