Margery Boyden, Scudder Association Foundation Historian

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.

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Rec Charles Judson Scudder

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

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Four Scudder Assoc. Presidents

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

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Scudder Memorial Association and Scudder Association of America Combined

When the Scudder Memorial Association with address of 1 Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey filed its certificate of incorporation on 19 June 1911, its sole purpose was to raise funds to complete the construction of the new Scudder Memorial Hospital facility. Within ten years, members of the Scudder Association of America, that was formed in 1912 to include social and family history purposes, also were contributing substantially to the building of the hospital through a part of the association’s dues and personal donations.

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