Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Ludlow, Joseph Burr 1876 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JOSEPH BURR LUDLOW, mayor of Rushmore, and interested in many of the principal

business enterprises of that village, is a native of Nobles county. He was born

in Worthington Aug. 28, 1876, the son of Horace J. and Mary E. (Barlow) Ludlow,

who still reside in the county seat town.



  Burr resided in Worthington with his parents until 1893, when he removed to

Rushmore, and that village has been his home since. During his boyhood days he

attended the Worthington public school and worked on his father's fruit farm,

within the corporate limits of Worthington. He went through every department of

the Worthington public school and was graduated from the high school in 1897. He

then took a term in Carleton college at Northfield, attending that institution

in 1898-99. In 1899-1900 he took a course in the Minnesota School of Business,

being graduated in the spring of 1900.



  When he came to Rushmore in 1893 he took a position in S. B. Bedford's store,

and while not attending school worked there for many years. In 1902 he began

work in the Bank of Rushmore, of which S. B. Bedford was the owner. In the

spring of the following year the institution was reorganized as the State Bank

of Rushmore; then Mr. Ludlow took an interest in the bank and became assistant

cashier, which position he still holds. He is also interested in many other

business enterprises in the village of Rushmore. He is a member of the Rushmore

Land Co., dealers in real estate; is manager and secretary of the Bedford Land &

Loan Co., which owns the handsome state bank building; is vice president of the

Farmers' Mutual Telephone Co. of Nobles County; is a member of the firm of

Ludlow & Christenson, stock buyers; and has stock in the Christenson Elevator

Co. Besides these for a number of years he found time to edit and manage the

Rushmore Enterprise.



  In village affairs he takes an active interest and has held a village office

ever since the town was incorporated in 1900. That year he was elected constable

and served a two years' term; in 1902 he was chosen assessor and served one

year; during the next four years he was village treasurer; then in the spring of

1907 he was chosen president of the council, which office he still holds.

Besides these village offices he has also held other offices of trust. In April,

1905, he was appointed one of the inspectors of materials in the construction of

the new house of representatives at the national capital, and several weeks were

 spent in Washington with these duties. In 1904 he was appointed by Secretary of

the Treasury Shaw a United States customs notary, which he still holds. Mr.

Ludlow was married at Rushmore on May 20, 1903, to Miss Bessie Bedford, daughter

of Senator and Mrs. S. B. Bedford. To them have been born two children, Horace

Bedford and Jean  Elizabeth.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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