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MC 00112 Guide to the Josephine Scott Hudson Papers, 1897 - 1978

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This collection is organized into six series; Cassius Rex Hudson Papers, Liberty Ship Cassius Hudson Papers, Scott Family Papers, Photographs, Newspaper Clippings, and Ephemera.

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Cassius Rex Hudson Papers,
                                             1897 - 1977
                                             (Series 1)
                                              
0.25 Linear feet
                                             (0.5 archival boxes)
                                             
This series contains research papers, correspondence, journals, photographs, postcards, and newspaper clippings belonging
                                       to North Carolina State Agricultural Extension agent, Cassius Rex Hudson.
                                    
Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Portions of this collection are being digitized
                                       and may not be immediately available; please contact Special Collection Research Center staff for more information.
                                    

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       1]
                                       ERA Dose Book and Reference Tables,
                                          1897
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       2]
                                       Record of Classes - List of Text Books,
                                          1901 - 1906
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       3]
                                       Harvesting Machinery,
                                          1904
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       4]
                                       Cotton Seed Germination - Thesis,
                                          1905
                                       Master's Thesis Written by C. R. Hudson

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       5]
                                       Correspondence Received by C. R. Hudson,
                                          1906 - 1924
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       6]
                                       Home and Farm Monthly,
                                          1906
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       7]
                                       Postcard and Calling Cards,
                                          1909
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       8]
                                       North Carolina Department of Agriculture - Seed Test Bulletin,
                                          1913
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       9]
                                       The Country Gentleman,
                                          1918
                                       Publication with a brief biography and photo of C. R. Hudson.

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       10]
                                       Cooperative Extension Papers - Cotton Culture and Farm Plans,
                                          1918 - 1924
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       11]
                                       Cooperative Extension Pamphlets - "The Cotton Boll Weevil,",
                                          1920 - 1924
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       12]
                                       Negro Farmers Cooperative Extension,
                                          1921 - 1922
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       13]
                                       Schedule of Events - Tuskeegee Negro Conference,
                                          1923
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       14]
                                       North Carolina State Fair Premium List,
                                          1925
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       15]
                                       North Carolina Extension News,
                                          1977
                                       C. R. Hudson Article

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       16]
                                       Receipts, Notes, and Prescriptions,
                                          undated
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       17]
                                       Insect and Crop Statistics - Alabama,
                                          undated
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       18]
                                       Seaman Knapp Pamphlets,
                                          undated
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       19]
                                       Farmer's Alliance - Farm Union Literature,
                                          undated
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       20]
                                       C. R. Hudson - Songwriter,
                                          undated
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       21]
                                       Recipe and Formula Notebooks,
                                          undated
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       22]
                                       Biography, Obituary, and Bronze Tablet Text,
                                          undated
                                       

Liberty Ship Cassius Hudson Papers, 1944 (Series 2)
0.125 Linear feet (0.25 archival boxes)

Correspondence and newspaper clippings documenting the dedication ceremony for the Liberty Ship Cassius Hudson, launched in 1944. Liberty Ships were cargo ships that were easily and quickly constructed. Almost three thousand of the vessels were built during World War II. The standard Liberty Ship was 442 feet long, and could carry 10,000 tons. It is estimated that the ships transported nearly seventy-five percent of the cargo that went to support the American war effort.

[Box 1, Folder 23] Correspondence, 1944

[Box 1, Folder 24] Newspaper clippings, 1944

Scott Family Papers,
                                             1958 - 1978
                                             (Series 3)
                                              
0.25 Linear feet
                                             (0.5 archival box)
                                             
Series contains a biography, correspondence and press clippings related to the Scott family of North Carolina.

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       25]
                                       Scott Family History,
                                          1958 - 1976
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       26]
                                       Governor Bob Scott - Inauguration Issue - Raleigh - News and Observer,
                                          1969
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       27]
                                       Governor Bob Scott - Inauguration - General Newspaper Coverage,
                                          1969
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       28]
                                       Governor Bob Scott - North Carolina Leader,
                                          1973 - 1974
                                       

                                       [Box
                                       1,
                                       Folder
                                       29]
                                       Governor Bob Scott - Book Debut,
                                          1978
                                       

Photographs, 1938 - 1944 (Series 4)
0.25 Linear feet (1 archival album)

Series contains photographs of the dedication ceremony for the Liberty Ship Cassius Hudson, Scott family photographs, and North Carolina Cooperative Extension photos.

[Album 2] Photographs, 1938 - 1944

Clippings, 1924 - 1972 (Series 5)
(1 archival folder)

Series contains newspaper clippings collected by Josephine Scott Hudson over a period of five decades.

[Half Box 3, Folder 1] Newspaper Clippings, 1924 - 1972

Ephemera (Series 6)
(1 archival folder)

Folder contains a button card and a prefabricated replacement shoe sole that belonged to C. R. Hudson.

[Half Box 3, Folder 2] Ephemera, undated

Quantity

1.0 Linear feet

General Physical Description note

1 archival box, 1 archival half box, and 1 album

Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff external link .

Language

English

Acquisitions Information

Material donated by Frances Griffin, 1978 (Accession no. 1978-0014) and 1986 (Accession no. 1986-0006) and by Francis McVay, 1976 (Accession no. 1976-0017).

Processing

Processed by: Michael Watts, Maurice Toler;machine-readable finding aid created by: Micheal Watts

Scope and Content Note

The Josephine Scott Hudson Papers include research papers, correspondence, photographs, information on the Cassius Hudson Liberty Ship, professional papers, publications, and news clippings relating to Cassius Rex Hudson's career with the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. There is also material related to Josephine Hudson, her brother, W. Kerr Scott, who was governor of North Carolina from 1949 to 1953 and United States Senator from 1954 to 1958, and her nephew, Robert W. Scott, governor of North Carolina from 1969 to 1973. Papers contained in this collection highlight the contributions made by her husband, Cassius Rex Hudson, and her father, Robert W. Scott, to North Carolina State University and to the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service.

Biographical Note

Josephine Scott Hudson was born on October 23, 1883 in Alamance County, North Carolina. Daughter of Robert W. Scott, and sister of United States Senator and governor of North Carolina W. Kerr Scott, Josephine Scott married North Carolina's first Cooperative Extension agent, Cassius Rex Hudson, in 1911. The couple had four children, C. R. Jr., Robert, Seaman, and Frances.

Josephine Scott Hudson's father, Robert Scott, was a state legislator and trustee for thirty-five years at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University). He was instrumental in securing state funding for some of the original structures used to house the Agricultural Extension Service on the North Carolina State University campus.

Both Josephine and her sister Margaret worked as agricultural extension home demonstration agents in Alamance County. Josephine met her husband while speaking on a farmer's institute train tour. The train tours were an early teaching device used by the Extension Service to reach farmers living in remote rural areas.

Josephine Scott married Cassius Rex Hudson in 1911. Hudson, a graduate of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, had been hired by Seaman Knapp in 1907 to serve as the Farmer's Cooperative Demonstration Work agent for the state of North Carolina. In the fall of 1904, Seaman Knapp had established the Farmer's Cooperative Demonstration Work, headquartered in Houston, Texas. Farmer's Cooperative Demonstration Work (later to become the Cooperative Extension Service) was organized to educate farmers, and to aid cotton growers in eradicating the boll weevil. The program evolved into a comprehensive educational and demonstration system that was implemented in cooperation with land grant universities and regional governments across the United States. The movement revolutionized American agriculture.

Cassius Rex Hudson traveled extensively throughout North Carolina, instructing farmers in modern agricultural techniques. By 1914, he was conducting farm demonstration work in thirty counties. He continued working in that capacity until 1922. In 1922, he was placed in charge of "Negro Demonstration Work" for the state of North Carolina and worked as the director of that program until his death in 1940. In 1944 the Liberty Ship Cassius Hudson was named in his honor.

Josephine Scott Hudson's brother, W. Kerr Scott, was Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of North Carolina, 1937-1948, and served a term as the state's governor, 1949-1953, He was then elected to the United States Senate and served from 1954 until he died in 1958. His son Robert Scott was elected governor in 1968 and served from 1969 to 1973.

Known affectionately as Miss Josie, Josephine Scott Hudson actively promoted the Scott family tradition, and was cited frequently in the regional press as a resource for information on North Carolina's rich agricultural history. She died in 1978, at the age of ninety-four.

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Access to Collection

This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice. Portions of this collection are being digitized and may not be immediately available; please contact Special Collection Research Center staff for more information.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Josephine Scott Hudson Papers, MC 112, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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