The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
ments of mankind in all the departments of civ¬ ilized life, and to promote future progress by the fraternal co-operation of the enlightened minds of all countries. The organization and direction of this enterprise has been in his charge from the be¬ ginning. He was chairman of. the preliminary committee, to which the subject was first en¬ trusted, and when, to meet the growing necessi¬ ties of the work, the World's Congress Auxiliary was organized, Mr. Bonney was made president of that body, and its chief executive and manager. So much progress has been made, and so much distinguished co-operation has been secured, that there seems to be no reason to doubt that a very great success will crown the undertaking. In an¬ nouncing the project, Mr. Bonney said:
" To make the Exposition  complete and the celebration adequate, the wonderful achievements
of the new age in science, literature, education, government, jurisprudence, morals, charity, relig¬ ion, and other departments of human activity, should also be conspicuously displayed, as the most effective means of increasing the fraternity, progress, prosperity and peace of mankind ; and after setting forth the plan, that ' such congresses, convened under circumstances so auspicious, would doubtless surpass all previous efforts to bring about a real fraternity of nations, and unite the enlightened people of the whole earth in a general co-operation for the attainment of the great ends for which human society is organized.' " As organized in January, 1892, when this sketch was prepared, the World's Congress scheme em¬ braced fifteen great departments, and more than one hundred general divisions in which congresses are to be held.
REUBEN  LUDLAM, M.D.,
CHICAGO,   ILL.
IT is much to achieve success, it is infinitely more to win the gratitude of the suffering and affiicted. In our community there is, per¬ haps, no one who in this regard has greater reason for content than Dr. Reuben Ludlam.
Nearly forty years of most devoted labor have placed him among the few who may be said to be at the head of the medical profession in the Northwest, and such has been the cordial, kindly, generous manner of this ministration, that in the hearts of those who have received it, there is a sense of grateful recognition that words cannot express.
Reuben Ludlam was born in Camden, N. J., Oct. 7, 1831. His father was Dr. Jacob W. Lud¬ lam, an eminent physician, who died in 1858 at Evanston, Illinois, after a long life beneficently spent in the practice of his beloved profession. His widow, now in her eighty-third year, still re¬ sides at Evanston.
While still a child, Reuben Ludlam was accus¬ tomed to accompany his father on his daily round of visits, even then taking the greatest interest in the different cases, and, no doubt, gathering much of use in after life. Naturally studious, he made great progress in school, and when he graduated
from the old academy at Bridgeton, New Jersey, it was with the highest honors of his class.
At sixteen, under the supervision of his father, he commenced a systematic course in medicine. Continuing his studies at the University of Penn¬ sylvania, he received the degree of M. D. in that institution in 1852, whence his father had gradu¬ ated many years before, having spent six years of most earnest effort in preparation for his pro¬ fession.
Soon after graduation he came to Chicago. It was at this time that the doctrines of Hahnemann were causing such universal agitation in the breasts of disciples of the old school. It was with Spartan courage that the young physician, having become practically convinced of the truth of the new theory, by bedside experience, cast aside the dogmas so long cherished, and arrayed himself under the banner of homoeopathy. With the enthus:»iasm of youth, he was a hearty and im¬ petuous advocate of the new principle, and, in 1859, upon the organization of Hahnemann Medi¬ cal College, was chosen to'fill the chair of physi¬ ology, pathology and clinical medicine therein. After four years he was transferred to the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, in