Bio: Smith, Ludolphus
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 222.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF LUDOLPHUS SMITH

LUDOLPHUS SMITH, P. O. Bloomer, came to Chippewa Falls. May 5, 1867, from Lexington, Mich., where he was born March 12,1843. His father, Edmund, and his mother, Almira, Smith, moved to Michigan from Vermont, and were both born near Burlington, in that State. Mr. Smith was married in Eau Claire, Dec. 2, 1 868, to Miss Alice Knopp, whose parents, Abijah and Jane Knopp, migrated from Pennsylvania to Illinois, and from there came to Chippewa Falls in 1861. Mr. Smith has one child, Eugene, born in Chippewa Falls, July 25, 1869. Mr. Smith has been successfully engaged in the manufacture of lumber for the past ten years, and is a joint owner in Smith's mill at Bloomer. He is also engaged in farming.