page_title: Charles Townsend Ludington
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Townsend Ludington / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - "Technique" - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA) - Class of 1922
context_page_description: Charles Townsend Ludington, was a businessman and socialite of Philadelphia. He was an aviation pioneer who helped establish an every-hour-on-the-hour air service between New York and Washington.
context_section_description: Ludington was the first child of Charles Henry Ludington and Ethel Mildred (Saltus) Ludington. He was born in New York City on January 16, 1896. His parents were married in Brooklyn, New York, in April 1895. He had two brothers; Wright S. Ludington who was born in New York City in 1900, and Nicholas who was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1904.
  Ludington went to public schools in New York City while a young boy. He was sent to Adirondack School of northeastern New York state for private secondary education for grades 7 through 10 and Haverford School to finish high school. After he graduated from high school, he went to Yale University and graduated from there in 1919. He went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) part-time and received a degree in 1922. He was the secretary of the Aeronautical Engineering Society at MIT.  He considered himself an aerodynamicist.
caption: MIT 1922 Yearbook – "Technique"
   C T Ludington (bottom row, far right)
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