The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-18

tion. He stood twelfth in a class of 84 upon graduation.
 Honorcd by Williams College He was graduated by Princeton
 Theological Seminary in 1864. In 1872 Williams college conferred up-
 on him the honorary degree of
 Doctor of Divinity and in 1888
 Princeton made him an honorary Doctor of Letters.
 Dr Ludlow was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1864. His first pastorate was the First Pres byterian church of Albany, where
 he served from 1865 until 1869. In the latter year he was called to the
 Collegiate church in New York city and was it's pastor until 1877. Dur
 ing the following eight years he served the Westminster church in Brooklyn. In 1886 he was called to the Mum Avenue Presbyterian
 church in East Orange, pastorate
 he filled until 1909 when he became
 pastor emeritus.
 In 1865 he married Miss Emma
 J. Orr of Albany. They had four
 daughters and three sons. One of the latter, Frederick Orr Ludlow,
 now residing in St Joseph, Michigan is a member of the Princeton class of 1902. Dr Ludlow had a grandson
 in the Class of 1880 and two other
 grandsons are members of the present freshman class.
 Offered College Presidency Dr Ludlow's most recent book is
 Along the Friendly Way" publish
 ed in 1919, which he describes as
 'an attempt to gather up the wind
 strewn leaves of recollection" Dur ing his long ministerial career he
 acted as moderator of the Presby-
 tery and presiding officer at the
 trial of the Reverend T. Dewitt
 Talmage. He was offered the presi-
 dency of Marietta college in 1885. Through coincidence, the cur
 rent issue of the Princeton Alumni
 Weekly contains an, article on the Civil war days at Princeton contrib
 uted by Dr Ludlow. The Class of 1861 had an equal number of stu dents from the north and south, he
 writes. Political opinions or preju-
 dices went off at hair-trigger touch; and, from the excited tones
 of the self-appointed protagonists in the melee, one might have thought that the Civil war began
 on the Princeton campus instead of Charleston harbor.
 But underneath the surface eX-
 citement ran a happier sentiment that of the fraternity of our college
 spirit. The bond of personal friend
 ships had too many strands for easy
 sundering. When war actually came political fury became almost a fu-
 nereal calm. There was closer
 grip of the arms as we sauntered
 to Jug Town or Rocky Hill. There
 were many sad scenes at the rail- road station down by the canal, as our northern groups gave the fare well-generally a hug as the nov ing platform of the train creaked
 it's fatal echo of goodbye"
 Princeton's Host Battalion" "The Class of '61 may be said to
 have never had an annual meeting.
 It is practically The Lost Battalion
 in the Princeton roster." he writes.
 Fort Sumter was attacked on April 19, 1861. The news reached Prince ton the following day which was, Dr Ludlow recalls, "the most eXcit- ing day in our college experience. In a recent letter to the editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Dr Ludlow, informing him that the article was being prepared. wrote:
 "I am writing chiefly to keep my mind from stagnation, a state in which I observe that so many who have retired from active work fall into unless they keep the foot on the accelerator."