John Ludlow

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John Ludlow, the seventh provost of the University of Pennsylvania, was born in Acquackanonk, New Jersey, in 1793. He attended the Columbian Academy in Bergen, New Jersey, and later Reverend Samuel Whelpley’s school in Newark, New Jersey. He performed so well at Whelpley’s school that he was named head of the Department of English there while in his late teens. When he left Whelpley’s school at the age of nineteen, he joined the junior class at Union College. Ludlow graduated as the Class of 1814’s valedictorian two years later.