By: Stan Jordan
Please read all the information about the first house in Paulding County.
Although it wasn’t stated in the article, this picture was in the book with the Robert Murphy Inn so we ran it in the paper along with it. We did not mean for anyone to mistake it for the Robert Murphy Inn.
FIRST LOG CABIN BUILT IN PAULDING COUNTY
Shadrach Hudson built the first cabin in Paulding County in the 1819. It was a large structure for those days, measuring twenty by thirty feet, and was two “stories” high. It was made of hewn logs and had two rooms on the ground floor with a huge fire place on each end of the cabin. It was erected on the right bank of the Auglaize River about one-half mile east of the present site of Junction in Section 19 of what was to be Auglaize Township. Mr. Hudson emigrated from Miami County, Ohio. Seeing the territory that was to be Paulding County as a soldier of the War of 1812, he was so impressed with the natural fertility of the soil and the beauty of this particular site he decided to make it his home. The Hudson’s were pious people, worshiping daily around the family altar and exercising hospitality toward all who passed their way. Isaac Carey, a son-in-law of Mr. Hudson also from Miami County, settled in the same general location as his father-in-law in 1819. This photograph of the Hudson cabin was taken about 1890 and was distributed as a pioneer souvenir item.
