Jesus is waiting, dear sinner

Author: R. E. Hudson

Ralph Erskine Hudson, 1843-1901 Born: Ju­ly 12, 1843, Na­po­le­on, Ohio. Died: June 14, 1901, Cleve­land, Ohio. Buried: Al­li­ance, Ohio. Hudson’s par­ents, Hen­ry and Sar­ah Hud­son, moved to Penn­syl­van­ia when Ralph was a boy. Soon af­ter the out­break of the Amer­i­can ci­vil war, Ralph en­list­ed in the 10th Penn­syl­van­ia Vol­un­teers, and served over three years. Af­ter dis­charge from the ar­my, he be­came a suc­cess­ful mu­sic teach­er. From 1872-4, he was Pro­fes­sor of Vo­cal Mu­sic at Mount Un­ion Coll­ege, and for the next quar­ter cen­tu­ry lived in the Mt. Un­ion-Alliance, Ohio, area. For a while, he was in a real es­tate par­tner­ship with Rev. D. D. Waugh. How­ev­… Go to person page >