Eighty-seven years ago, a young boy named Bob became interested in autographs — mainly from Big League baseball players. Over the years, his interests broadened and he began collecting autographs from astronauts, political leaders and historical figures. Starting in 1979, he began to add letters and documents from figures influential to Baptist history.
It was these collected documents that became the basis for the Robert R. Hudson Collection, which now resides at the American Baptist Historical Society at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Bob Hudson is now 97 years young and a longtime member of Olney Baptist Church.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Brian Tubbs and originally published by the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.