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Luckey, Samuel – Ludlow, Noah Miller

Luckey, Samuel

clergyman, journalist, author, was born April 4, 1791, in Rensselaerville, N. Y. From 1842 till his death he was a presiding elder in the Rochester, N. Y., circuit, and for nine years chaplain of the Monroe county penitentiary. He published a Treatise on the Sacrament. He died Oct. 11, 1869, in Rochester, N. Y.

Luders, Charles Henry

poet, was born in 1858 in Pennsylvania. He was a poet of Philadelphia; and the author of The Dead Nymph, and Other Poems; and Hallo, My Fancy, a collection of poems.

He died in 1891.

Ludington, Harrison

governor, was born in Putnam county, N. Y. He moved to Milwaukee in 1838, and was three times mayor of that city, in 1871-72 and 1875. He resigned before the close of his last term to accept the office of governor of Wisconsin.

Ludlam, Reuben

physician, author, was born Oct. 7, 1831, in Camden, N. J.

He is a Chicago physician, dean of the Hahnemann Medical college, and the author of Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria; and Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women.

Ludlow, Fitzhugh

journalist, author, was born Sept. 11, 1836, in New York city. He was a littérateur and journalist of New York city, and the author of The Hasheesh-Eater; The Opium Habit; The Heart of the Continent; Little Brother, and Other Genre Pictures; and Augustus Jones. He died Sept. 12, 1870, in Geneva, Wis.

Ludlow, George Craig

state senator, governor, was born April 6, 1830, in Milford, N. J. In 1876 he was elected a state senator, and in the second year of his term was made president of the senate.

He declined a renomination, and in 1880 was elected governor of New Jersey for the term of three years from 1881.

Ludlow, George Duncan

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1734 on Long Island, N. Y. He settled in New Brunswick, where he was a member of the first colonial council; administered the government as senior councilor, and in 1784 became the first chief justice of the supreme court. He died Nov. 13, 1808, in Fredericton, N. B.

Ludlow, Henry Gilbert

inventor, manufacturer, was born March 28, 1823, in Troy, N. Y. In 1866, the Ludlow Valve Manufacturing company was incorporated and began operations in a shop in Second street in Waterford, N. Y. As the valve became known, there gradually grew up a demand for it, with the result of creating a large and to this day an increasing business. The Ludlow company are now the largest manufacturers of these specialties and of hydrants in the world.

Ludlow, James Meeker

clergyman, author, was born in 1841 in New Jersey. He is a presbyterian clergyman of East Orange, N. J., from 1886, and the author of My Saint John; Concentric Chart of History; The Captain of the Janizaries, a tale of the times of Scanderbeg; A King of Tyre, a tale of the times of Ezra and Nehemiah; and That Angelic Woman, a novel.

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Ludlow, James Reilly

lawyer, jurist, was born May 3, 1825, in Albany, N.

In 1857 he was chosen judge of the court of common pleas in Philadelphia.

He filled this office until 1875, when, under the new constitution of the state, he was transferred to the president judgeship of the court of common pleas, which place he held at the time of his death.

He died Sept. 20, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Ludlow, Noah Miller

actor, author, was born July 4, 1795, in New York city.

He was an actor and theatrical manager in the southern states; and the author of Dramatic Life as I Found It. He died Jan. 9, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo.