
Ray Edward Chapin
1866-1967
The Hudson Library & Historical Society maintains the only comprehensive manuscript, genealogy, and artifact collection that documents Hudson, Ohio’s founding, history, and ongoing activities and functions.

One of the nation’s largest research collections on abolitionist John Brown and the Brown family.

Extensive manuscript holdings, newspapers, books, photographs, and artifacts documenting Hudson.

Vast collection of genealogy materials with an emphasis on sources for the Eastern U.S. and especially Ohio.

1866-1967

One of the earliest institutions of higher learning in the region, once called “The Yale of the West.”

Writer and journalist, perhaps best known for her weekly long-running column in the Plain Dealer Magazine
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