LUDLOW, Fitz Hugh, author, was born in New York City, Sept. 11, 1836; son of the Rev. Henry G. Ludlow. He was prepared for college at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and was graduated at Union college in 1856. He studied law in the office of William Curtis Noyes, New York city, 1858-60, and supported himself by editing Vanity Fair. He was admitted to the bar in 1859 but after 1860 devoted himself entirely to literature. He was employed on the editorial staffs of the World and Commercial Advertiser, 1860-61; was dramatic and musical critic of the Evening Post and of the Home Journal, 1861-62, and visited California and Oregon in 1863, making his journey over the course subsequently adopted by the Pacific railroad. He dramatized "Cinderella" and coached a troop of children to act it for the benefit of the U.S. Sanitary Fair in 1864 and visited Europe for his health in 1870. He is the author of: Apocalypse of Hasheesh (1856); The Hasheesh Eater (1837); Due South (1861), being a series of letters front Florida published in the Commercial Advertiser; Biographical Sketch of John Nelson Pattison (1863); Through Ticket to San-Francisco: A Prophecy (1864); Little Brother and other Genre Pictures (1867); What shall they do to be Saved? (1867), published as The Opium Habit (1868); the Heart of the Continent (1870), and a number of poems and stories. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 12, 1870.
Johnson, Rossiter, ed., Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904)
Johnson, Rossiter, ed., Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904)
LUDLOW, Fitz Hugh, author, was born in New York City, Sept. 11, 1836; son of the Rev. Henry G. Ludlow. He was prepared for college at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and was graduated at Union college in 1856. He studied law in the office of William Curtis Noyes, New York city, 1858-60, and supported himself by editing Vanity Fair. He was admitted to the bar in 1859 but after 1860 devoted himself entirely to literature. He was employed on the editorial staffs of the World and Commercial Advertiser, 1860-61; was dramatic and musical critic of the Evening Post and of the Home Journal, 1861-62, and visited California and Oregon in 1863, making his journey over the course subsequently adopted by the Pacific railroad. He dramatized "Cinderella" and coached a troop of children to act it for the benefit of the U.S. Sanitary Fair in 1864 and visited Europe for his health in 1870. He is the author of: Apocalypse of Hasheesh (1856); The Hasheesh Eater (1837); Due South (1861), being a series of letters front Florida published in the Commercial Advertiser; Biographical Sketch of John Nelson Pattison (1863); Through Ticket to San-Francisco: A Prophecy (1864); Little Brother and other Genre Pictures (1867); What shall they do to be Saved? (1867), published as The Opium Habit (1868); the Heart of the Continent (1870), and a number of poems and stories. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 12, 1870.
Johnson, Rossiter, ed., Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904)
Johnson, Rossiter, ed., Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904)
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