Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal
‘Dedicated to informing, preserving and promoting the Scudder family heritage of service and philanthropy’
Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal, volume 7 no. 1
History of the American Foreign Missions Movement that Began in New England, and Missionaries with New England Roots
Journal Vol 7 no 1 Summer 2025

Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal, volume 7 no. 1
History of the American Foreign Missions Movement that Began in New England, and Missionaries with New England Roots

Samuel Mills’ Struggle, a New England Haystack and America’s Foreign Missions Movement:
Samuel Mills’ Struggle, a New England Haystack and America’s Foreign Missions Movement

The Rev. William Waterbury Scudder I: His Family Heritage and Youth in India and America
Courage would be required of this eight-year-old lad to set sail to a foreign land nearly 9000 miles from home.

The Rev. William8 Waterbury Scudder I, Begins His Missionary Career with His First Wife
A Story that Portrays Uncommon Dedication and Sacrifice

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Oliver Knight Scudder
by © 2025 Gracie K. Bradford, Lizzie’s great grandniece, by permission to Scudder Association Foundation, 2025 Elizabeth was born 15 September 1830 in Boston, Massachusetts , her family having recently relocated there from Falmouth, Maine.

William8 W. Scudder I, Early Years of the Arcot Mission, Widower Again and a Third Marriage, And Glastonbury, Connecticut, the Years 1853–1895
The three Scudder brothers were hard at work their first year to establish the Arcot Mission, which was “about sixty miles from India’s eastern coast.
