Hudson is a city in Summit County

Summit County, Ohio

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, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

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. The population was 22,262 at the 2010 census. It is an affluent exurban

Commuter town

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 community and is part of the Akron, Ohio

Akron, Ohio

Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...

 Metropolitan Statistical Area

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. It is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria

Greater Cleveland

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 Combined Statistical Area

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The city is named after its founder, David Hudson, who settled there from Goshen, Connecticut

Goshen, Connecticut

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 in 1799, when it was part of the Connecticut Western Reserve

Connecticut Western Reserve

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The Underground Railroad

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 passed through Hudson, and the town was the childhood home of John Brown

John Brown (abolitionist)

John Brown was an American revolutionary abolitionist, who in the 1850s advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery in the United States. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre during which five men were killed, in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas, and made his name in the...

 after his family moved there in 1805.

James Ellsworth

James Ellsworth

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 and his wealth helped modernize Hudson in the early twentieth century.