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LEVI LUDWICK (deceased) was born near Sardis, Westmoreland county, Pa., Feb. 27, 1829, son of Abraham and Mary Magdalena Ludwick, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. While he was young his parents moved to Jefferson county, where he assisted to clear a farm. At the age of twenty-one he left the farm and became a contractor and builder. He took the contract and built the first house in Irwin; also a great many others in same town. In 1856 he came to Allegheny county, and took the contract and built the inclined-plane trestles and houses at the Coleman mines, now in the city limits. In 1860 he purchased the Wilkinsburg mill, which he operated till his death, Sept. 21, 1887. He remodeled and rebuilt parts of the mill twice. He was a member, and many years a trustee and steward, of the M. E. Church, and was a school director while Wilkins borough formed part of the city. In his political sentiments Mr. Ludwick was a republican. He is survived by a widow and two daughters — Mary Letitia and Blanche. His widow, Mrs. Nancy Jane Ludwick, is a daughter of John and Letitia (Morrow) Anderson, and was born in Wilkins township, this county. Her father was a native of Westmoreland county, of Irish descent, and her mother was a daughter of James Morrow, an Irishman, who settled in Pennsylvania.