Hudson, Joseph Lowthian

10/17/1846

Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

First public lighting commissioner
Vice president of Dime Savings Bank
Director American National Bank
President of the Detroit Board of Commerce;Harpar Hospital; Associated Charities of Detroit; Provident Loan Society; Florence Crittendent Home
Water Commissioner
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the McGregor Instittute

Public Schools of England and Hamilton, Ontario and Grand Rapids, Michigan

Died while traveling to Worthing, England due to pneumonia

1860: Living in Grand Rapids, went to school for a half of year and worked on a fruit farm the other half of the year.
1861: Worked for Christopher R. Mabley in Pontiac for 5 years and again in Detroit in 1877.
1866-1877: In business with his father, at Ionia, Michigan, R. Hudson & Son.
1878-1881: Formed partnership with Mabley and opened a store in Detroit Opera House.
Left Mabley and engaged in clothing business as the J.L. Hudson in 1881, which became a department store in 1891, when the present building was completed and occupied (company incorporated as the J.L. Hudson Co., 1897)

Left business, the J.L. Hudson Co., to his four nephews, the Webbers

Member of the Art Commission of Detroit
A trustee of Central Methodist Church
Member of the advisory board of YMCA and YWCA

Democrat
Methodist

Richard Hudson

Elizabeth Lowthian

never married

English