Edward Hunter Ludlow

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. and Ann Eliza Gabriella Ludlow (wife of Horatio Gates Lewis).

His paternal grandparents were Gabriel George Ludlow and Anne (née Verplanck) Ludlow (sister of Gulian Verplanck, the Federalist Speaker of the New York State Assembly). His maternal grandparents were Robert Hunter and Ruth (née Brick) Hunter. His paternal grandfather was "one of the three Ludlows who were members of the Committee of One Hundred which was organized in 1775 to support the cause of the American patriots."

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. until Mattlett's retirement in 1856. In 1856, Ludlow entered into a partnership with Morris Wilkins under the same name as the predecessor firm, E. H. Ludlow & Co., with principal offices located on Pine Street in lower Manhattan. offered to lease Edgewood, the former estate of Frederick Prime (youngest son of banker Nathaniel Prime) on the Long Island Sound.

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." The Ludlow country estate called "Pine Lawn" had a quarter mile front on the Hudson River. Situated next to Northwood (her brother Robert Edward Livingston's estate), Pine Lawn was the furthest north of the five subdivisions his father-in-law made to his children. Together, they were the parents of:

Elizabeth Livingston Ludlow, who died young. Edward Philip Livingston Ludlow (1835–1915), who married Margaret Tonnelé Hall, daughter of Valentine Gill Hall and Susan (née Tonnelé) Hall, in 1863. who married Margaret's brother Valentine Gill Hall Jr., a nephew of John Tonnelé Jr., the farmer and politician who was a member of the New Jersey State Legislature. was part of and just south of Ludlow's Pine Lawn estate. After a funeral conducted by the Rev. Dr. Charles Comfort Tiffany was held at the Zion Church at Madison Avenue and 38th Street, his remains were interred in the family vault at Tivoli.

Descendants Through his son Edward, he was a grandfather of two: Susan Livingston Ludlow, who married Henry Parrish Jr. in 1884, and Edward Hunter Ludlow II, named after him.