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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           W. J. LUDINGTON, farmer, section 22, Rubicon Township, was born
        April 5, 1847, in Geauga Co., Ohio. His parents, WILLIAM and BETSEY
        (TEMPLE) LUDINGTON, reside in Huron County. The former was born in
        Vermont, the latter in Ohio.  They came to Michigan in 1855, and
        have lived in the township of Rubicon since their removal to the
        State.
           MR. LUDINGTON has been engaged chiefly in lumbering until about
        1880, when he turned his attention exclusively to the development
        of his agricultural interests.  He owns 230 acres of land, and has
        100 cleared and improved.  He has been successful in all his busi-
        ness ventures, but has suffered heavy losses in both the fires that
        have devastated the "little peninsula" of Michigan. In that of 1871
        his saw-mill, buildings and lumber were consumed, inflicting a loss
        of $5,000.  The mill was situated at Forest Bay.  His loss in the
        second fire was $1,400.
           He is a Republican in political affiliation and has served his
        township two years as Supervisor, and as School Director six years.
           The first school in the township was taught by THOMAS NICHOL
        (afterward a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church), and MR.
        LUDINGTON was a pupil therein.
           MRS. LUDINGTON was born Oct. 1, 1852, in Canada, and is the
        daughter of JOHN ATKINSON.  Her father is living in Lexington
        Township, Sanilac County.  Her mother died when the daughter was a
        young girl. She was married in October, 1869, to MR. LUDINGTON, and
        they have had four children, as follows: W. BERTIE, April 11, 1871;
        JOHN P., July 15, 1873; LOTTIE, March 17, 1875; ARTHUR, March 27,
        1883. They were born in Rubicon Township.

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