Edward Hunter Ludlow
Edward Hunter Ludlow | |
---|---|
E. H. Ludlow & Co. | |
Spouse |
Elizabeth Livingston
(m. 1833) |
Children | 4 |
Parent(s) | Gabriel Verplanck Ludlow Elizabeth A. Hunter Ludlow |
Relatives | Anna Hall Roosevelt (granddaughter) Valentine Hall III (grandson) Edward Ludlow Hall (grandson) |
Edward Hunter Ludlow (1810 – November 27, 1884) was an American physician and real estate broker. His granddaughter Anna Hall Roosevelt was the mother of First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt.[1]
Early life
A scion of a prominent
His paternal grandparents were Gabriel George Ludlow and Anne (née Verplanck) Ludlow (sister of
Career
Ludlow studied medicine and duly received his degrees and diploma from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1831 before becoming a medical doctor.[3] He later served as trustee of the Medical Department of Columbia College in 1872.[1]
After practicing medicine for a few years, he turned to business, relinquishing his practice and in 1836 opening a real estate office at 11 Broad Street. In 1845, after accumulating significant wealth, he retired to his country estate near Tivoli-on-the-Hudson.[3]
In 1850, however, he returned to New York and went into partnership with General Edward Jones Mallett (former
Around early 1884, he took an active interest in forming the New York Real Estate Exchange and Auction Room, becoming its president and continuing as one of the "controlling spirits in that organization up to the time of his death."[9]
Personal life
In 1833, Ludlow was married to Elizabeth Livingston (1813–1896) in New York City. Elizabeth was the second daughter of
- Elizabeth Livingston Ludlow, who died young.[13]
- Edward Philip Livingston Ludlow (1835–1915), who married Margaret Tonnelé Hall, daughter of Valentine Gill Hall and Susan (née Tonnelé) Hall, in 1863.[12]
- Gabriel Augustus Ludlow (1838–1844), who died young.[1]
- Mary "Molly" Livingston Ludlow (1843–1919),New Jersey State Legislature.[12] Their country estate, a Second Empire-style mansion known as "The Oaks",[14] was part of and just south of Ludlow's Pine Lawn estate.[12]
After a period of feeble health, Ludlow died on November 27, 1884, at 21
Descendants
Through his son Edward, he was a grandfather of two: Susan Livingston Ludlow, who married Henry Parrish Jr. in 1884,[16] and Edward Hunter Ludlow II, named after him.[6]
Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of seven, including: Anna Rebecca Hall (1863–1892), who married Elliott Roosevelt (brother of President Theodore Roosevelt); Valentine Hall III (1867–1934); and Edward Ludlow Hall (1872–1932).[2] Through his granddaughter Anna, he was a great-grandfather of Gracie Hall Roosevelt and First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of her fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 1880. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-30181-0. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d e NEW YORK'S GREAT INDUSTRIES. 1885. p. 88. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ Island, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Rhode (1908). The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. p. 280. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ "Mrs. Horatio Gates Lewis (b. 1805)". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ a b Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Mann, Conklin; Maynard, Arthur S. (1916). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. p. 193. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ Battle, Kemp Plummer (1912). History of the University of North Carolina: Vol II From 1868 to 1912. Edwards & Broughton Printing Company. p. 236. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ "Exchange Sales Friday, May 12.; NEW-YORK. By E.H. Ludlow & Co" (PDF). The New York Times. 13 May 1871. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ a b c "DEATH OF EDWARD H. LUDLOW" (PDF). The New York Times. November 28, 1884. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ Bell, Blake A. (May 15, 2014). "Edgewood, a Grand 19th Century Estate Owned by Frederick Prime Overlooking Long Island Sound". The Pelhams-PLUS. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
- ^ Livingston, Edwin Brockholst (1910). The Livingstons of Livingston Manor: Being the History of that Branch of the Scottish House of Callendar which Settled in the English Province of New York During the Reign of Charles the Second; and Also Including an Account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The Nephew," a Settler in the Same Province and His Principal Descendants. Knickerbocker Press. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- ^ a b c d Society, Dutchess County Historical (1928). Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society. The Dutchess County Historical Society. p. 65, 66. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ Assembly, New York (State) Legislature (1911). Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York. p. 335. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ Doxsey, Patricia (May 1, 2005). "Eleanor Roosevelt never lived in Tivoli but considered it her childhood home". Daily Freeman. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ^ "Funeral of E. H. Ludlow". Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide. C.W. Sweet & Company: 1223. December 6, 1884. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1198. Retrieved 21 November 2019.