long-pedigreed

Updated: May 11, 2025

And the man who was finally chosen to replace Vail was in many respects the appropriate leader for such a preparatory period. Hudson John Elbridge Hudson was the name of the new head of the telephone people. He was a man of middle age, born in Lynn and bred in Boston; a long-pedigreed New Englander, whose ancestors had smelted iron ore in Lynn when Charles the First was King.

Herbert Newton Casson - The History of the Telephone