Below are resource guides to selected notable individuals, places, events and collections that have helped to shape and define Hudson. Hudson Library & Historical Society owns many of the papers and records on these various topics (linked in each resource guide where applicable). For additional information on our collections, see the manuscript collection page or contact us.
Abraham Lincoln visits Hudson
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) stopped in Hudson on his way to Washington, D.C. for his Presidential inauguration in 1861. The President-Elect’s whistlestop tour from Springfield to Washington, D.C. included
Dr. Moses Thompson’s Saddlebags
Once belonging to Dr. Moses Thompson, the first physician in the Western Reserve.
Grace Goulder Izant
Writer and journalist, perhaps best known for her weekly long-running column in the Plain Dealer Magazine
