grasp of his hand, were but the natural expression of his character, which made him many friends.

As I have said, Dr. Hudson was one of the younger members of our college class, and while he attained to a fair standard of scholarship, yet he did not appear to aspire to the highest rank. He was always interested in out-door exercises, and I recall our expeditions during many a half holiday about the neighborhood of the city, to East and West Rocks, the shores of the bay, and in winter to Saltonstall Lake, when there was ice enough for skating there.

He was also much interested in boating, and he has often since referred to the fact that the contests between Harvard and Yale were instituted while we were students, (I think during our senior year), and that he had the pleasure of being present at the first one.

In my view these practices on his part were of special service to him, as they tended to invigorate a physical system which at that time was not mature, and did not appear to be very robust. His face was that of one who had not yet entirely passed from the period of adoles

cence.

I cannot refrain from referring to my last meeting with my beloved classmate. We had arranged beforehand to attend the Bi-centennial of Yale, and if possible to march together in the great procession. As it happened I did not go down on the train with him, but when I arrived by a later train he was at the station to greet me, and never relinquished his grasp until we had reached the Campus. He had been there before me and knew where to find what we specially desired to have. It is pleasant now to recall the enthusiasm so conspicuous in his face on that occasion, and his exclamation, when I suggested that I might not be equal to the torchlight parade in the evening, that he should go if he were the only one of the class there. He seemed transformed again into the eager and enthusiastic boy of our college days,

"When hope was young, and life itself were new."

He never became a prophet of evil. Hopes deferred, disappointments and trouble, which sooner or later come to all men, did not sour him.

I have ventured so far in referring to some of the habits and experiences of Dr. Hudson when a student which came under my own observation, as they may serve, perhaps, to foreshadow the nature and real character of the man more accurately than anything else I could say.

"The child is father of the man.”

And after all, this is what every one desires to know about those who have gone before us. We care very little about how many public offices one may have held, except as this may indicate character. The supreme question relates to this. One may have had legions of patients, and yet have been nothing better than a quack or a deceiver. We look for higher elements of personality, honesty, manliness, love of truth for its own sake, benevolence and integrity. These are the possessions which, after all, make true wealth and are those which we prize most in our friends, living or dead, and we rejoice to believe that they characterized our departed confrere.

Dr. Hudson was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 14th, 1833, and died at his residence on Elm Street, October 31st, 1901. He was the son of William and Anna (Miller) Hudson. His father was a brother of Barzillai Hudson, with whom he was associated many years in business on Main Street. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. William Fowler Miller, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1786, and the pastor of the Congregational Church in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

Dr. Hudson was an only son, and spent his early years in Hartford. He was one of the first class of students, numbering ten members, who completed a full course in the Public High School, in 1849. The High School building at that time was a comparatively small and unat

tractive affair, and was located at the corner of Ann and Asylum Streets. No such formalities attended the graduation then as exist at the present time. The late Henry C. Robinson, of Hartford, and Julius Catlin, of New York, whose parents were at that time residents of Hartford, were of the class, and entered Yale College at the same time with Dr. Hudson in 1849, all of them graduating in 1853.

It appears that he had already decided upon his profession, as he went soon afterward to Philadelphia and entered the Jefferson Medical College, graduating as M.D., in 1855. He then went to Paris where he spent a part of two years, in the meantime taking private courses in surgery by such eminent instructors as Nelaton and Trousseau. Subsequently he spent some time in London in visiting hospitals and attending lectures.

Having thus laid broadly the foundation of his professional preparation, he returned home and began practice in New York City. He remained there until 1862, being connected during some portion of this period with the Northern Dispensary. By that time the Civil War was absorbing the attention of everybody; the army had become greatly increased, and there was a call for many surgeons. Dr. Hudson was appointed as an Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., and was soon assigned to hospital duty. His family in the meantime removed to Hartford. After the termination of his period of service in the army, the doctor himself returned to Hartford, making it a place of permanent residence. He remained in general practice until 1869. At this time, as he was quite independent of an income from this form of professional labor, he sought other and less exacting kinds of employment. This came to him by his appointment as Fish Commissioner, and soon after he entered the service of the State in this capacity. He occupied this position for twenty-five years, and during ten years of this period he was a member of the Shell Fish Commission.

During twenty years he was Stockholders' Auditor of the Consolidated Road. He was at one period Treasurer of the Colonial Club, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Cercle Francaise. He served two years on the Board of Aldermen, and five years in the Common Council, of which he was for a time the President.

He was also a member of the City, County and State Medical Societies; and at the time of his death was VicePresident of the Hartford Medical Society.

Dr. Hudson had rarely, if ever, been seriously ill during his student and professional life, and had been in his usual health up to the commencement of the illness of which he died. He attended the exercises of the Bicentennial of Yale, to which he had looked forward with much interest, during three days, and was one of three members of his class who marched in the great parade.

Within a day or two after his return home from New Haven he began to complain of illness, and very soon took to his bed. But his disorder was not regarded as of a serious nature, and his family were not anxious in reference to its issue during the first few days. A change for the worse then occurred. The symptoms which had before been rather obscure, became more pronounced. The indications of peritonitis or appendicitis, which had existed only in a sub-acute form, if at all, became more evident; his strength began to fail, and his recovery be came doubtful. Still his mind remained clear, and he continued cheerful and hopeful. Only a few hours before his death occurred he had taken food with a relish, and expressed his thought that the worst was passed and that he should be up and about again in a few days. He, however, gave no indications of returning strength, and about half an hour before death, observing that his daughter who was sitting beside him, seemed to be anx ious, he looked at her for a moment, and then turning away, said: "Well, I may as well go now as at any time." This was his last word, and very shortly he quietly

ceased to breathe. The same calm, trustful, and hopeful spirit which had so characterized his life, remained to the close.

He "hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have."

Dr. Hudson became a member of the First Church in Hartford in May, 1849, and his membership extended over more than half a century. He became a member of the Prudential Committee first in 1875; was re-elected and served till 1886. He was again elected in February, 1900, to serve the period of three years. His father, William Hudson, joined the church, April, 1829, and was a member at the time of his death in 1875. His uncle, Barzillai Hudson, was a member of the Prudential Committee from March, 1838, to the time of his death in March, 1871.

Dr. Hudson was married in May, 1858, to Miss Ellen Heiskell Bryan of Philadelphia. He leaves a widow and three children, one son and two daughters.