First Officers of Hudson Township

Elected April 5, 1802 (From The Founding of Hudson)

ORGANIZATION OF TOWNSHIP. Aside from the judicial authority of Justice Hudson, by appointment of Governor St. Clair, early in 1801, Hudson was without legal organization until the Spring of 1802, when, by the action of the commissioners of Trumbull county, in connection with Stow, Boston, Twinsburg, Aurora and Mantua, it was set off as a township under the general name of Hudson.

The first election was held at the house of 'Squire Hudson, April 5, twenty electors being present, Mr. Hudson being chairman. The officers then elected were as follows: Trustees, Heman Oviatt and Abraham Thompson, of Hudson, and Ebenezer Sheldon, of Aurora; clerk, Thaddeus Lacey, of Hudson; poormasters, Elias Harmon, of Aurora, and Samuel Bishop, of Hudson; fence viewers, Aaron Norton, John Oviatt and Jotham Atwater; appraisers s of houses, John Gaylord and Elias Harmon; supervisors of highways, George Kilbourn, Moses Pond and Moses Thompson; constables, Ebenezer Lester, Aaron Norton and Rufus Edwards.

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Fifty Years and over of Akron and Summit County
By Samuel A. Lane
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