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Charles H. Ludington

Full Name: Charles Henry Ludington

Merchant (Dry Goods)

Centurion, 1864–1910

Proposed by
Sanford R. Gifford
born February 1, 1825
Carmel, New York
died January 1, 1910
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected December 3, 1864
Age thirty-nine
Member portrait of Charles H. Ludington

Century Memorial

Charles Henry Ludington was born in this state, in a nearby county, and educated in a Connecticut school. He came early to this city and founded a mercantile house which finally became one of the foremost in its line. Retiring over forty years ago, he continued in the direction of many corporations until taken off at seventy-one years of age [sic: eighty-four], having been associated with us for forty-five. Throughout the Civil War he was an ardent patriot, a founder of the Union League, and busy in the raising and equipping of regiments. Besides membership in two social clubs he was an active supporter of three art associations, in all of which he took the keenest interest. His long period of comparative leisure was really one of activity in the things that make for spiritual and intellectual progress. To the manner of The Century he was distinctly native, and in it he had warm, stimulating friendships.

William Milligan Sloane
1910 Century Association Yearbook

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