From Michigan Place Names
Lenawee County: with his wife and family, Hiram Kidder, from Yates County, N.Y., became the first settler here in 1833. It was called Bean Creek from its location by a stream which had been so named from the quality of bean timber that w on its banks. With the appointment of principal landowner Beriah H. Lane as postmaster on April 19, 1836, the settlement was renamed Lanesville. In 1840, by common consent, it took the name of its township which Mr. Kidder had named for Dr. Daniel Hudson, from Geneva, N.Y., one of the first landowners in the town. Its post office was renamed Hudson on April 27, 1840. A station on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. Incorporated as a village in 1853 and as a city in 1893 [Bonner; Whitney]