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Levin W. Gudgel
was a young and rising attorney in Gibson County and an ardent Republican. He was elected as the second
Mayor of Princeton, Indiana to a two-year term from 1886 to 1888.
Levin Gudgel was the son of Andrew and Elvira (Wallace) Gudgel. He was born July 26, 1854 and raised on the old Gudgel Family Homestead, 2 ½ miles south of Oakland City. After high school he attended Ashbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he studied science.
In 1879 he began the study of law in the office of William M. Land and was admitted to the bar in 1880, formed a law partnership with James B. Gamble and shortly after
opened his own law practice. In 1882 he married Miss Josephine Van Nada and they had one son together. Josephine died in 1915 and Levin married a second time in 1917 to Eliza Farmer.
Levin Gudgel was a successful lawyer practicing in Princeton for a period of 25 years, before reluctantly retiring due to a loss of his hearing. Levin retired to the family homestead where he spent his remaining years farming. Levin was a member of the Princeton Presbyterian Church, the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland City and a member of the Masonic order for over 50 years. Levin Gudgel died after a short illness in April 1935.
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