Manning Force Stires
The Scudder Association Bulletin XXI summarizes that Manning Stires “was a Yale graduate and member of the New York and New Jersey Bars. He devoted much of his time to the practice of corporate law and study of government.
Activities & Events
It’s official! Sign-up information is here see below and plan to celebrate with us in October.
2024 Reunion Details Announced
It’s official! Scudders will gather October 18-20 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for the 2024 Scudder Association Reunion and Annual Meeting.
We’ll headquarter at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Newtown, PA, a short jumping off point from the New Jersey sites which have so much Scudder history. The hotel is giving us a special rate of $185 a night and has set up a special code ‘SCUDDER GROUP’. Call (888) 755-9880 to make a reservation.
Scudders have a long history in the Trenton, New Jersey, area since settling there in the 18th century to take advantage of its great farmland. For example, during the American Revolution Amos Scudder’s family sheltered and fed Washington’s troops after they crossed the freezing Delaware River from Pennsylvania, and he helped guide them to Trenton where they surprised and defeated Britain’s mercenary Hessian troops in December 1776. It was a turning point in the war that gave new life to the nearly defeated revolutionary movement. We’ll be visiting the site of his crossing with 2,400 troops and the scene of his attack on the startled Hessians.
The reunion is going to be packed with fun activities for the whole family including a Meet and Greet party on Friday evening, October 18th, and a bus tour to Washington Crossing National Historic Park and the Olde Barracks Museum in Trenton on Saturday. The annual meeting of the membership will be held Saturday afternoon followed by the reunion dinner in the evening. An informal breakfast gathering Sunday morning will cap off the weekend. Â
Invite your family and cousins to attend this wonderful weekend. Make the Scudder Reunion your personal family reunion and come meet cousins from around the country.  The Foundation is underwriting many of the costs to keep the reunion affordable for everyone. Â
You can register here: scudder.org/reunion-registration
Please plan to attend! Come and introduce your family to 400 years of wonderful accomplishments of Scudders and the work of the Scudder Foundation. Â
Click here to see the complete program and costs: SCUDDER-FALLS-REUNION INFO
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Theodore Townsend Scudder, Sr.
During his long term of presidency of the Scudder Association of America, Theodore10 Townsend Scudder guided the Association through the lean years that followed the completion of the Scudder Memorial Hospital and the Great Depression. In 1936 he revived interest the family gathering again and in Scudder family history by beginning publication of the Bulletin, carrying most expenses out of his own pocket.
Rita Lord Scudder, Served 1926
First Female President of the Scudder Association of America
The Scudder Association was rather progressive when it elected its first female president less than six years after women in the United States of America were given the right to vote.
The Rev. Charles Judson Scudder President of Scudder Association of America in 1925, 1947, 1948
The Rev. Charles J. Scudder’s youth was spent in a most remarkable family as this brief history of his parents’ family illustrates. His father, Dr. John8 Scudder II served thirty-nine years in India until his death in 1900. His mother, Sophia (Weld) Scudder remained in India for another twenty-five years after her husband’s death to make her service in India longer than any of the other Scudder missionaries, sixty-four years, at her death in 1925
Four Other Scudders Who Served as Presidents of the Scudder Association in the Second and Third Decades, 1925–1946
These photos of presidents of the Scudder Association from 1912–1946 were featured in the Golden Anniversary of the Association. The family reunion to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the Scudder Association was held on June 23, 1962, at Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth
John Montgomery Scudder
The 9th president of the Scudder Association of America was John10 Montgomery Scudder, who served in part of 1922 and 1923, pictured here cutting the ribbon for the Scudder Falls Bridge near where he grew up on the property purchased by his 4th great grandfather, Richard4 Betts Scudder.
Isabelle Scudder Farrington Who Generously Gave an Endowment
Isabelle, the youngest of the seven children of Dr. Ezekiel Carman and Sarah Tracy Scudder, was born in Arni, India, but when she was fairly young, her parents came to America to…make a home for their own children and those of their brothers who were still in India.
Theodore Townsend Scudder, Sr. Completes the Reboot of the Scudder Association, Inc. in 1938
For over ten years, from late 1928 to 1939, Theodore10 Townsend Scudder, Sr. was president of the Scudder Association “and it was he who made possible and carried through the amalgamation of the Scudder Association of America,
History of the Scudder Association of America, 1922–1946
History of the Scudder Association of America, 1922–1946,
Continued from Volume 5, no. 3, (Fall 2023)
Featuring: Theodore Townsend Scudder, Sr., Isabelle Scudder Farrington, John Montgomery Scudder,
Rev. Charles Judson Scudder, Rita Lord Scudder, bio of Theodore T. Scudder, Manning Stires