HUDSON, J. E.
HUDSON, J. E. (1798–?). J. E. Hudson, Grayson County planter, was born in South Carolina in 1798. The 1860 census reported that he owned 105 slaves, making him one of the largest slave owners of the time. He raised corn and cotton on 250 acres of improved land.
Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Art Leatherwood, "HUDSON, J. E.," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhu58), accessed August 28, 2014. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on October 24, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.