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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1946
Page
4
The article traces the Ludlow bank lineage from its 1856 founding to 1941, noting family presidencies and long service. It highlights key figures such as Ladiow and Etter, mergers with First National and Citizens banks, and the enduring influence of Ludlow in local banking policy and practice.
The old Ludiow desk once used for fur making in Monroe is now a historic specimen in the bank’s front room. It mainly served as an ornament as the banker did not work there and his barter was conducted outside on the sidewalk. Mrs May L Luchsinger plans to pass the home to the Green County Historical Society as she disposes of the property.
Report describes fattened steers and cows kept in sheds and at pasture, many shipped to market. Townspeople note each lot brings more money and prosperity to the community as the season extends.
The Arabut Ludlow portrait to be shown at The First National Bank of Monroe’s 90th anniversary open house is by Beloit portrait painter Edward M R Weiner. Weiner, born 1883 in New York, studied under Wayman Adams and has completed about 70 Beloit portraits, with 32 on display at the Beloit Commercial Club. He now has commissions dated far in advance and exhibits in Rockford and Milwaukee galleries.
The Ludlow barn dance of 1879 opened a palatial stable in a social milestone. Milwaukee and Mil waukee leaders, Janesville and Darlington guests, Chicago musicians and caterers attended. Harriet Corson recalled the woodwork, polish, and the phrase guests were in the manger.
A reminiscence notes a loyal buggy horse serving its master on daily trips between home and the square. The animal followed steady to the master’s commands as the driver urged with a cane and a giddyup.
Roy F. Burmeister, UW graduate and former Monroe attorney, serves as president and directing head of the near century old Monroe bank. He has built public confidence through two years of legal practice and his shift to banking underscores his readiness to guide the institution.
Arabat Ludlow invested early in Denver city property that grew with the downtown area. His 99 year lease on the Brown Palace site, now on Broadway and Lincoln, pays 20 000 dollars a year from a 400 000 valuation with 5 percent interest after notes. The current building houses Sears Roebuck and mortgage notes guarantee a 10 story future structure.
New England settlers and later arrivals shaped Monroe's early population but many of the once prominent families have faded. Among the oldest names lingering are Abbott Adams Austin Ball Baker Banta Bintliff Blakely Broom Bolender Booth Bowers Bridge Brown Byers Campbell Chandler Cheney Chadwick Chenoweth Chryst Churchill Clawson Clemmer Confer Copeland Carson Craven Davenport Dodge Dunwiddie Eilert Emerson Foster Gardner Glascott Goddard Green Halil Hawthorn Hill Hurlbut Hyde King Lewis Loofbourow Ludlow Mack Meeker Manchester Monroe Mosher McCracken McLean North Parlin Patterson Pike Pinney Puffer Randall Robinson Bean Rote Rood Rust Soseman Spangler Stearns Stewart Stone Strawser Studley Summeril Symonds Tallman Thorp Treat Twining Van Dyke Van Wagenen Wagner Whitney Witter Wolcott Wright West Woodworth Wadsworth Young.
The Arabat Ludlow library was erected as a memorial by his three sons Henry Willis and Edwin now deceased whose offer to donate it to Union school district was accepted by the city of Monroe after rejecting a Carnegie library proposal.
The life of Arabat Ludlow spans Vermont birth in 1818 to a trail of ventures in Michigan Illinois and Wisconsin. He endured orphanhood early, traveled by canal lakes and wagon delivering goods then founded successful mercantile banking and farming enterprises in Monroe Wisconsin and beyond.
This article recalls Arabut Ludlow a Monroe banker farmer and public figure. It recounts his role in easing mortgaged debts his town leadership during war years and his push for Cheese Day starting in 1873 to promote limburger cheese attracting farmers and merchants.
The obituary recalls Arabut Ludlow who died in 1896 in Monroe at 78, after fifty years of marriage to Caroline Sanders. It notes their 1846 move to Monroe, Ludlow’s peddler days, Hotel Ludlow built in 1884, and his role in early Green County development. It mentions his family and their burial plot in Greenwood cemetery.
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