New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-10
ADMIRAL LUDLOW
DIES; END SUDDEN
Veteran of Two Wars i'll
at Rotel-Stricken Sew
eral Days Ago.
WIFE DIED RECENTLY;
THEY LIVED APART
Navy Man Came of Old Long
Island Family-Won RecOg-
milton by Gunnery.

Rear Admiral Nicoll Ludlow, L. S.
y. (retired). died suddenly last night
at the Hotel Gotham. He was stricken
with apoplexy on Monday and next day
pneumonia developed. He was not con-
scious at $3.50 last night when death
came. Only his nurse was at his bed
side His brother. GGwln Ludlow, Of
Lancaster, Penn, was in the hotel,
where he had been since Monday.
Although there was but little hope
that Rear Admiral Ludlow would re-
cover, it was believed that the end
would not COM for several days.
Three weeks ago Rear Admiral Lud-
lows wife. Mrs. Mary Mclean Bugher
Ludlow, died at Washington. Their
welded life was unhappy and they sep
arated several years ago.
Rear Admiral Ludlow was a native OF
Islip, Long Island, being born on Sep
TENDER IL, 1912, and spending practical
ly all his time in or near that village on
his ancestral estate when his duties did
not require his presence elsewhere.
His father preceded him in the ser
vice of the United States, being a vet
eran of the Mexican War and general
in the army. His son, Nicoll, chose
the naval branch of the service, and in
October, 1853, entered the Naval Acad
envy at Annapolis, being appointed
from New York State. Upon being
graduated he saw service In the Civil
War, serving in 1868 81 4as ensign on
the steam sloop Massachusetts,, which
captured the Confederate cruiser Flor
ida in the harbor at Bahia, Brazil.
At the conclusion of the war the
young ensign was assigned to various
ships and stations, and within few
years his proficiency as a gunner was
so widely recognized that he became
an instructor In that branch at the
Naval Academy. He served in that ca
pacity from 1870 TO 1873, with the rank
Of Lieutenant commander
In 1881 Mr.. Ludlow won the grade Of
commander, and fifteen years later he
became q captain. At the beginning
of the war with Spain he commanded
the Terror, converted cruiser, in the
North Atlantic feet, and again in 1898
was transferred to the command Of the
battleship Massachusetts,. On Novem-
Der !, 1899, he was retired, shortly
after being reprimanded by Secretary
Long of the Navy for allowing the
Massachusetts, to run aground. He was
ranked as rear admiral, however,
when he left the service.
At the time Of his appointment as
instructor in gunnery at the Naval
Academy, Admiral Ludlow married
Frances Mary Thomas. She died sew
eral years later, and in February, 1897
he was married again 20 Mrs. Mary
Mclean Bugher. His second matri-
mOnial venture was not altogether
happy, and in 1908 he announced that
he and his wife had agreed to live
separately. He left Oakdale, the Lud
low family estate, in his wife's pos
session, having previously sold the
property TO her, and went to Mexico
Later he returned to New York, 70
make his home at the University CLUB
The Ludlow estate originally comprised
100 square miles of territory on Lone
Island and was granted TO the first oil
that family to come to this country by
Charles ii.
After the rear admiral and his wife
separated Long Island society contln-
ued its interest in the couple, which
was kept alive by Mrs. Ludlow's deter
mination TO be declared owner of the
old cemetery on the estate. After tour
years litigation the courts decided
that it was the property OF st. johns
Episcopal Church, of Oakdale.
Mrs. Ludlow was the mother of former
Police Commissioner Bugher, of New
York. and a sister Of John r. Mclean
of Washington, and of the wife of
Admiral Dewey.
Rear Admiral Ludlow was former
governor of the Naval Home. of Phila-
delphia, and member of the Loyal
Legion. the New York Geological So
ciety, the American Museum of Natural
History, the Century, University and
New York Yacht clubs.