Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Luwick, Edgar L. 1885 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 185-186
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     EDGAR L. LUDWICK, the capable and efficient assistant manager of the 
Pacific Cooperative Wool Growers, at Portland, has had wide and varied 
experience in agricultural affairs, in relation to both production and 
marketing, and in his present position has contributed in large measure to the 
successful operation of the organization which he represents. Mr. Ludwick was 
born in Arkansas in 1885 and is a son of William and Nettie (Brown) Ludwick. 
His father, who was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, went to 
Puyallup, Washington, in 1887, and is now deceased but is survived by his 
widow, who resides in Tacoma, Washington.

     Edgar L. Ludwick received his elementary education in the public schools, 
was employed for awhile on Columbia river steamboats, and then entered 
Washington State Agricultural College, at Pullman, where he pursued the 
mechanical and electrical engineering courses, being graduated with the degree 
of Bachelor of Science in 1910. For a few years thereafter he followed the 
engineering profession, and then turned his attention to practical 
agriculture, operating several farms which he had bought. During this period 
he also served as principal of the high school at Richland, Washington. He 
then became connected with the bureau of markets of the United States 
department of agriculture, his special work being grain standardization in the 
Pacific northwest. Later he became agricultural agent for Boner county, Idaho, 
during which time, in association with H. F. Shedler, he sponsored the first 
state seed potato show in the northwest. During that period he also organized 
the first cow testing association in the west to include scientific feeding in 
connection with the tests; he brought thirty-five head of pure bred Shorthorn 
cattle into that county, and also organized three community bull clubs, which 
brought into that county a number of pure bred bulls. He likewise organized 
several community cattle shipping associations, through which he taught the 
farmers the value of good cattle to them. In 1921 Mr. Ludwick became secretary 
of the Oregon Cooperative Grain Growers, in which capacity he served until 
1924, when he resigned and went to Denver, Colorado, as sales manager for the 
Colorado Wheat Growers Association, which position he filled until May, 1926, 
when he came to Portland as assistant manager of the Pacific Cooperative Wool 
Growers. Here he has full charge of the membership and is the editor of the 
monthly paper issued by this association for the information and benefit of 
its members.

     In 1911 Mr. Ludwick was united in marriage to Miss Leah Lampson, of 
Yakima, Washington, and they are the parents of a son, Ernest. The republican 
party receives Mr. Ludwick's support, and he is a Knight Templar Mason and a 
Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is secretary and a director of the Pacific 
Operating Company and the Idaho Operating Company, and has extensive farming 
interests. He has proven a wide-awake, progressive man and is discharging his 
official duties to the entire satisfaction of the association. 

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