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Rh apprentice in the Baldwin Locomotive Works until he became the General Manager and a partner—on physician's order retiring in middle life, with a fortune.

William C. Ludwig, as already noted, had been closely associated with Williamson for many years in charitable work; also in business in former years, and on the corporation boards of various railroads. He began life as a compositor on a newspaper in Reading, where he was born. Like Williamson, on attaining his majority, he went to Philadelphia, started in drygoods on Third Street, and retired with a fortune at about the end of the Civil War. Later he busied himself in various banking, insurance and railroad enterprises. In social intercourse, or summer outings at Bryn Mawr and elsewhere, they had often talked over the scheme of the industrial school, Ludwig making many valuable suggestions.

The only lawyer on the board was Henry C. Townsend. His brother, E. Y. Townsend, of the Cambria Iron Company, was one of Williamson's longest and closet friends, and