Charles Townsend Ludington

Born: January 16, 1896

Died: January 18, 1968

Children: Ethel Saltus Ludington Anderson

Charles Townsend Ludington was vice president and treasurer of Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia

The Ethel Saltus Ludington Memorial Infirmary was erected at the Trudeau Sanatorium in 1926 in her memory by her husband, Charles Ludington. In a letter to Dr. Edward R. Baldwin dated March 7, 1923, regarding his gift of the infirmary in his wife's memory, Charles Ludington described the building as "designed to help others win a fight which she herself had to meet and which she maintained with such gallantry and such victorious self-forgetfulness and cheer to the end." Also given in her memory were an addition to the Saranac Lake Free Library for a children's library (1924), where a large bronze plaque memorializes Mrs. Ludington; two other libraries elsewhere, and a substantial gift to the Henry Phipps Institute for Tuberculosis at the University of Pennsylvania.