Ludeling, John Theodore

Submitted by Beryl Bourgeois

Ludeling, John Theodore, jurist, was born in New Orleans, La., in 1824, a son of John Henry and Francoise Lorette Salure (do L'Ailleuse) Ludeling. His father was a Prussian officer who served under the celebrated Prussian general, Marshal Blucher, and later emigrated to Louisiana. He settled at Pointe Coupee, where he practiced law and became a judge of the district court. Subsequently he moved to Monroe, La., where John spent his boyhood.

Ile was educated in a Jesuit college at St. Louis, Mo., studied law after leaving college and was admitted to the bar in Louisiana. His law practice became unusually large and when Judge Hyman retired from the bench of the supreme court in 1868, succeeded him, serving from that time to 1877. He was a Republican, and though his two brothers served in the Confederate army during the Civil war, he refused to do so, remaining true to his principles.

Judge Ludeling married Maria, daughter of Enoch Copley, a descendant of the celebrated artist. They had four children, two daughters and two sons. He died on his plantation near Monroe, La., Jan. 21, 1890.

Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 2, p.105. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit. D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.