LUCKEY
LUDLOW
of the Pacific squadron, and the Juniata of the
Mediterranean squadron, 1866-72 ; was equip-
ment officer at the Boston navy yard, 1872-75 ;
was commissioned captain, Dec. 28, 1872 ; com-
manded the Hartford, flagship of the North
Atlantic squadron, in November, 1875 ; was in-
spector of training ships, 1877-78 ; commanded
the U.S. training-sliip Minnesota, 1878-81 ; and
the U.S. naval training squadron, 1881-84 ; was
commissioned commodore, Nov. 25, 1881, and
served as president of the commission on the sale
of navy yards in 1882. He was ordered to the
command of the North Atlantic squadron as act-
ing rear-admiral, July 26, 1884, and was made
president of the U.S. Naval War college. Coaster's
Harbor Island, R.L, Sept. 20, 1884. He was pro-
moted rear-admiral, Oct. 5, 1885, commanded the
naval forces of the North Atlantic station, 1886-89,
and was placed on the retired list, March 25, 1889.
He was appointed commissioner-general to the
Columbian Historical exposition at Madrid in
1892. On March 1, 1893, the Queen Regent of
Spain conferred on him the Grand Cross of Naval
Merit with the white distinctive mark, for serv-
ices as delegate to the exjxjsition. On June 1,
1901, he was appointed a member of the board of
visitors to the U.S. Naval academy. He was an
associate editor of Johnson's Universal CyclopaB-
dia ; naval editor of the Standard Dictionary, and
is the author of Seamanship (1863), used as a
text-book at U.S. Naval academy, and editor of
Naval Songs (1883).
LUCKEY, Samuel, educator, was born in Rens- selaerville, N.Y., April 4, 1791. He became a Methodist itinerant preacher in Ottawa, Canada, 1811, and served the Oneida conference, N.Y., 1812-21. He was president of the Genesee Wes- leyan seminary, 1822-26 : was stationed at New Haven, Brooklyn and Albany, and served as presiding elder of the New Haven district. New York East conference, 1826-86 ; was editor of the publications of the Methodist publishing society, New York city, 1836-40 ; presiding elder of the Rochester, N.Y., circuit, 1842-69, during which time he was chaplain of the Monroe county peni- tentiary nine years and regent of the University of the State of New York, 1847-69. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Union in 1824. He is the author of : Treaties on the Sacra- ment (1859) ; Hymns and Lessons for Children, and sermons. He died in Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 11, 1869.
LUDDEN, Patrick Anthony, Roman Catholic bishop, was born near Castlebar, county Mayo, Ireland, Feb. 4, 1836. He was educated at St, Jarlath's college, Tuam, Ireland, and in 1854 came to the United States. He completed his education in the Grand seminary at Montreal, Canada, where he was ordained priest, May 21, 1864, by Mgr. Ignatius Bourget. He was rector
of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,
Albany, N.Y., and secretary and chancellor to
Bishop Conroy ; pastor of St. Joseph's church,
Malone, N.Y., and vicar -general of the diocese of
Albany, 1877-80; pastor of St. Peter's church,
Troy, N.Y., 1880-87, and was consecrated the
first bishop of the newly formed diocese of Syra-
cuse, N.Y., May 1, 1887, by Archbishop Corrigan,
assisted by Bishops Loughlin andMcNierny. He
held his first diocesan synod, Oct. 4, 1887. He
was present at the oecumenical council at Rome
in 1869, and was the theologian to the Bishop of
Albany at the plenary council of Baltimore. He
is the author of: Church Property (1882).
LUDINQTON, Harrison, governor of Wiscon- sin, was born in Kent, Putnam county, N.Y., July 31, 1812 ; son of Frederick and Susannah (Grif- feth) Ludington ; grandson of Col. Henry and Abigail (Ludington) Ludington, and of Joshua and Charity (Scofield) Griffeth ; and a descendant of William Ludington, who settled at Charles- town, Mass., 1632, and died at the East Havm Iron Works, Conn., 1662-3. He received a com- mon-school education, and in 1838 removed to- Milwaukee, Wis., where he engaged in general merchandising, and from 1841 in the lumber busi- ness. He was elected an alderman of the city of Milwaukee for two terms ; was mayor, 1872-74 and 1875-76, and governor of Wisconsin, 1876-78. He died in Milwaukee, Wis., June 17, 1891.
LUDLOW, Benjamin Chambers, soldier, was born at Ludlow Station, Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1831. He was a student at Carey's academy. College Hill, Ohio, and at Kenyon college, and was graduated from the University of Pennsyl- vania, M.D., in 1854. He practised in New York city in 1854, in California in 1855, in Mexico, 1856-59, and in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1859-61. He raised a troop of cavalry in 1861, and offered his mounted men to the government, but both Sec- retary Cameron and General Scott considered the four regular cavalry regiments all the mounted troops required and he went to St. Louis, Mo., and offered his services to General Fremont. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant and afterward captain of the " Fremont Hussiirs." They marched to southwestern Missouri under General Curtis in February, 1862, and the hussars were consolidated with the 5th Missouri cavalry in the autumn of 1862, and Ludlow was made major of the new organization. He was ordered to the army of the Potomac as aide-de-camp to Major- General Hooker in December, 1862, and was on his staff until Hooker was relieved by General Meade, when he became inspector of artillery on Meade's staff and served in the campaign of the Army of the Potomac from June, 1863, to Feb- ruary, 1864. He was appointed chief of cavalry of the Department of Virginia and North Caro-
