Charles Bradford Hudson - NMFS Scientific Publications Office

Figure 9.—Members, in part, of Evermann and Jordan’s expedition to the Hawaiian Islands, Nuuanu Pali, 12 June 1901. Back row
from left: Charles Bradford Hudson, Edmund Lee Goldsborough (USFC, Evermann’s assistant), Michitaro Sindo (Jordan’s assistant).
Front row from left: Albertus Hutchinson Baldwin (artist), Barton Warren Evermann (USFC), Grace Barnhisel (CBH’s future
wife, recent Stanford University graduate, not an expedition member), Knight Jordan (age 13, Jordan’s son), David Starr Jordan,
Alvin Seale (curator of fishes, Bishop Museum), John Treadwell Nichols (age 18, volunteer, future curator of fishes, American
Museum of Natural History). Photograph by John N. Cobb (USFC statistician, in charge of expedition arrangements) (DULS, E.
L. Goldsborough file).
CBH had taken specimens with him,
which he was illustrating as time
permitted, and Jordan repeatedly
importuned him to finish them so
that he could submit his papers for
publication. CBH remained in Detroit,
and on 26 May 1903, his father
died. CBH would stay on in Detroit
until at least November to help settle
his father’s estate and also to write a
biography of his father and preface
for his father’s posthumous book,
“The Evolution of the Soul and Other
Essays,” 1904.
By early Dec. 1903, CBH was back in
California, and on 9 Dec. 1903, he and
Claire Grace Barnhisel were married
in San Jose. 47 They would make their
permanent home in Pacific Grove, building
a house in 1910 at 317 Alder Street
47 His first wife, Christine, was granted a divorce
in 1902 and she would remarry in 1903 (Washington
Post, 4 Aug. 1903, p. 3), to Guy N.
Collins (1872–1938), prominent chief botanist
for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau
of Plant Industry (New York Times, 16 Aug.
1938, p. 19). They would remain married until
he died. Information from ProQuest Historical
Newspapers.
and, with occasional extended absences
would live there until CBH died in 1939
and his wife moved away in 1941 (in
litt., 6 Jan. 1941, Grace B. Hudson to
DVA). It was in the Alder Street home
that they would raise their two children,
Bradford Benedict and Claire Barnhisel,
and Lester, son of CBH’s first marriage.
By 1926, CBH would build or acquire a
separate studio at 440 Asilomar Avenue
(from the Spanish, asilo, a refuge + mar,
sea, hence, refuge by the sea), less than
a mile (1.61 km) from their home, near
to, and with an unimpeded view of, the
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