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Rh ter wrote a series of letters from Florida, entitled " Due South," that greatly added to his reputation. He was for a time dramatic, art, and musical critic of the " Evening Post," and long a contributor to it, occupied a similar place on the " Home Jour- nal " in 1862, and in 1863 made a journey across the plains to California and Oregon, the results of which appeared in a succession of articles, one of which, " Through Tickets to San Francisco, A Prophecy," projected a course for the Pacific rail- road that was identical in its pinncipal particulars with that which was finally adopted. Upon the establishment of the " Northern Lights" magazine in Boston, he became a contributor, and wrote for it his two most popular stories, " Little Briggs and I " and " Fleeing to Tarshish." He dramatized " Cinderella," and trained the amateur company of children that acted it, for the benefit of the New York sanitary fair in 1864. His subsequent writ- ings included a wide range of subjects, and in 1867 he published a magazine article called " What shall they do to be Saved ? " which was a scientific state- ment of the nature of the opium-habit, a warning of its dangers, and suggestions for its treatment, which he enlarged and published in book-form, " The Opium-Habit " (New York, 1868). He went to Europe in .June, 1870, for relief from pulmonary disease, but died in a few months. His numerous poems have not been collected. His " Hymn of Forbearance " was widely copied. His " Bessie's School " is included in " Whittier's Poems of Child Life," and that on Thomas Starr King in the me- morial volume to that clergyman. His other works include " Little Brother, and Other Genre Pictures " (Boston, 1867), and " The Heart of the Continent " (New York and London, 1870).

LUDLOW, George Duncan, jurist, b. on Long Island, N. Y., in 1734; d. in Fredericton, N. B., 13 Nov., 1808. He was an apothecary in early life, but studied law, and, notwithstanding a serious im- pediment of speech, became eminent as an advo- cate. Previous to the Revolution he exercised much influence in the colony, and was councillor and a judge of the supreme court in 1769 ; and to compensate him for the loss of the office of chief justice, to which he was entitled by the law of succession, public opinion induced Lieut.-Gov. An- drew Elliott in 1778 to appoint him master of the rolls and superintendent of police on Long Island, "with powers and principles of equity to hear and to determine controversies until civil government can be declared." Ludlow was a strong loyalist, and the previous year his house at Hempstead had been plundered, and it is said that he escaped im- prisonment by climbing on the roof through the scuttle and hiding behind the chimney. The Whigs had organized a government as early as 1777, but Ludlow was sustained in office by the loyalists until the peace, when he was compelled to leave the country, and his seat at Hyde Park and his other property were confiscated. After a visit to England he settled in New Brunswick, where he was a member of the first colonial coun- cil, administered the government as senior coun- cillor, and in 1784 became the first chief justice of the supreme court. — His brother. G-abriel G., b. in New York city. 16 April, 1736; d. in Carle- ton, N. B., 13 Feb., 1808, entered the military ser- vice of the crown at the beginning of the Revo- lution, and was colonel and commandant of De Lancey's 3d battalion in 1782. At the close of the war his estate of 140 acres in Hyde Park was con- fiscated, and he was banished. After a short resi- dence in England, he removed to New Brunswick with his brother, Judge Ludlow, and drew three lots at Carleton. He was a member of the first council of St. John, its first mayor, and on the or- ganization of the court of vice-admiralty in 1787, although not a meml)er of the bar. was appointed judge. In 1803, on the embarkation of Gov. Thomas Carleton for England, Ludlow, being sen- ior councillor, became president and commander- in-chief. His residence in Carleton is still standing, and is known as the " old government house." — His great-nephew, John, clergvman. b. in Acquacka- nonck, N. J.. 13 Dec, 1793 • d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 8 Sept., 1857, was the grandson of Richard, who adhered to the patriot cause during the Revolution. John was graduated at Union college in 1814, at New Brunswick theological seminary in 1817, and on his ordination became pastor of the Reformed Dutch church there. He was professor of biblical literature and ecclesiastical history in New Bruns- wick seminary in 1819-'23, and at the latter date accepted the charge of the 1st Reformed Dutch church of Albany, N. Y. He was provost of the University of Pennsylvania in 1834, delivered sev- eral courses of lectures before the Smithsonian institution and other scientific and literary bodies, and in 1854 returned to New Bninswick theologi- cal seminary, as professor of ecclesiastical history and church government. Union college gave him the degree of D. D. in 1827, and subsequently that of LL. D. — John's son, James Reily, jurist, b. in Albany, N. Y., 3 May, 1825 ; d. in Philadel- phia, Pa.. 20 Sept., 1886, was graduated in 1843 at the University of Pennsylvania, which in 1870 conferred on him the degree of LL. D. In 1846 he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, and in 1857 he was chosen judge of the court of common pleas in that city. 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. Although he was a Democrat of well-known partisan conviction, on two occa- sions he was elected to the office by the votes of all parties. He was a member of the American philosophical society and of the Historical society of Pennsylvania, and for a long period of time one of the trustees of Jefferson medical college. With John M. Collins he edited an American edition of "Adams on Equity" (Philadelphia, 1852).

LUDLOW, Noah Miller, actor, b. in New York city, 4 July, 1795 ; d. in St. Louis, Mo.. 9 Jan., 1886. He began his theatrical career in the melodrama of " The Two Thieves," shortly afterward joining, at Albany, N. Y., under Alexander Drake, the first company that undertook a tour of the western states. Their first performance was at Clean, N. Y., where they acted by candle-light in a barn, and afterward, descending the Alleghany in a flat- boat, they played in the small settlements on the bank of Mississippi river as far as New Orleans, where they arrived in 1817. He took the first regular dramatic company to St. Louis in 1819, and, merging a rival company into his own the next year, presented a series of standard dramas. He associated himself with Sol Smith and the Field brothers in 1834. and after a partnership of twenty years retired, appearing subsequently only in benefit performances. He published his me- moirs under the title of " Dramatic Life as I found It " (St. Louis, 1880).

LUDLOW, Roger, statesman, b. in Dorchester, England, 7 March, 1590; d. in Virginia about 1665. He was a lawyer of good family, and, on his appointment as assistant by the general court of Massachusetts in 1630, removed to Boston, and occupied that office for four years. He became