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Members of the Scudder family have worked as
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in
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.


First generation

John Scudder Sr., born in
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, on September 3, 1793, was India's first medical missionary. He graduated from
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in 1811 and the
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, and practiced medicine in
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. Scudder became committed to serving as a medical missionary of the American Board, and later of the Dutch Reformed Board. He went to
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(now
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) in 1819, and founded Asia's first Western medical mission in
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,
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. Scudder served there for nineteen years as a clergyman and physician, establishing a hospital at which he was the chief physician; he was especially successful in treating
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and yellow fever, and founded several native schools and churches. He was
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's first American medical missionary, beginning more than 1,100 combined years of missionary service there by 42 members of five generations of the family. Scudder and his wife, Harriet, had six surviving sons and two daughters; all became medical missionaries and worked in South India. In 1836, Scudder and another clergyman began a mission in
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to establish a printing press to publish the
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and
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in the
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. Settling in Chintadrepettah, he returned to the United States from 1842 to 1846. Scudder returned to India in 1847, spending two years providing medical aid in
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. He returned to his Madras mission in 1849, where he worked until his death on January 13, 1855. David Coit Scudder, born on October 27, 1835, in
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, was the son of Charles and Sarah Lathrop (Coit) Scudder. He was not descended from John Scudder, but from a Scudder of the early
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. On February 25, 1861, David was ordained as a missionary; two days later, he married Harriet Dutton. Their only child,
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, was born in India.full text David Coit Scudder, ed. Horace Elisha Scudder, ''Life and Letters of David Coit Scudder: Missionary in Southern India''
/ref> David, influenced in boyhood to go to India by the work of John Scudder Sr., arrived in Madras on June 26, 1861. He was in charge of the large mission in
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, but drowned in the
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between
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and Periyakulam on November 19, 1862 (20 months after arriving in
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) and is buried in the Anglican churchyard in Kodikanal. A small book entitled ''Letters to Sabbath School Children'' by J. Scudder, with "Master David Scudder, from his affectionate friend, J. Scudder, New York, August 8, 1843" written across the flyleaf, was found in his library., The Clancy and Scudder Scholarship, founded with a legacy of $300, was transferred by Mrs. Washburn to the Pasumalai institution. In January 1885, the mission accepted it as the Clancy Scholarship. Four hundred dollars in memory of David Coit Scudder from David's brother,
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, was added in June of that year. The 1,500 scholarship continued until 1906.


Second generation

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(1822–1895) was born in
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, Ceylon, and was John Scudder's oldest child. He graduated from the
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in 1840, and
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in 1843. The following year, Henry went to
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as a missionary. He went to Madras in 1846, organizing schools and churches in Madras,
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,
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and
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(Udhagamandalam). In 1850, Henry founded a mission at Arcot for the board of the
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; the following year, he opened the Wallajapet
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. Henry practiced medicine, and moved the dispensary to
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in 1853 because of its better location. The dispensary closed the following year due to his illness, and he went to the hills to recuperate. In 1856, Madurai joined the other American Tamil missions in appointing Henry their representative to a Madras convention to plan a new Tamil version of the
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. He prepared religious books and tracts in
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, and
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. Henry's publications include ''Liturgy of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church'' (Madras, 1862); ''The Bazaar Book, or the Vernacular Teacher's Companion'' (1865); ''Sweet Savors of Divine Truth'' (an 1868
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), and "Spiritual Teaching" (1870). All are in Tamil. In 1864, his health failing in India, he returned to the United States and performed pastoral work for nearly 20 years. Henry was pastor of the Howard Presbyterian Church in
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from 1865 to 1871, the Central Congregational Church in
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from 1872 to 1882, and the Plymouth Congregational Church in
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from 1882 to 1887; he resigned to resume missionary work in
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until 1889. William Scudder (born ) served in India for twenty-two years and was then a
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for eleven years in the United States. When he was sixty years old he went back to India for nine years, and died in 1895. Jared Waterbury Scudder, born in Panditeripo in 1830, graduated from Western Reserve College in 1850 and the
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in 1855. He was ordained a missionary to India for the
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, and joined the
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in 1855. He published Tamil translations of Henry M. Scudder's ''Spiritual Teaching'' (Madras, 1870), ''Bazaar Book'' (1870), and '' History of the Arcot Mission''. (1872). Jared was a member of the committee to revise the Tamil translation of the Bible. Silas Downer Scudder (born in Ceylon on November 6, 1833) graduated from
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in 1856, studied medicine, and was licensed to practice in New York City. Asked by the Arcot Mission and his brothers to begin medical work in Ranipet, in 1860 he went to India as a medical missionary and settled in Arcot. Silas founded a dispensary and hospital which were supported by English and native residents. With a large native outdoor practice, some of his patients were high-
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Hindu women who had been reluctant to see an American doctor. Ranipet Hospital opened on March 17, 1866. Due to its high medical standard, the Madras government closed its own dispensary and turned over its resources to Silas. All treatment and medicines were free of charge. In 1872, John Scudder II took over the Ranipet Hospital and its evangelistic work from his elder brother, Silas. After thirteen years he returned to New York because of illness, and died in Brooklyn on December 10, 1877. William Waterbury Scudder, born in 1835 in Panditeripo, joined the Arcot Mission in 1852, retired in 1894, and was buried in Kodaikanal in 1900.


Third generation

In 1877, Henry Martyn Scudder began a maternity clinic in Ranipet. Three years later, he resigned from the Arcot Mission and left for the United States. Ida S. Scudder (December 9, 1870 – May 24, 1960) dedicated her life to Indian women and the fight against plague,
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and
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. In 1918, she founded the
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. After seeing famine, poverty and disease in India as a girl, Ida intended to marry and live in the U.S. following her education at a Massachusetts
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. In her early 20s, however, she returned to India to help her ailing mother at her mission
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. Ida received an M.D. degree from
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in 1899, returning to India with a $10,000 gift from a Manhattan banker. She founded a small clinic for women in
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, from
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, and treated 5,000 patients in two years. Ida opened a medical school for women in Vellore 1918. Although skeptics said that she would be lucky to get three applicants, she had 151 the first year. Although the
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was originally the school's main funder, when Ida agreed to make it coeducational it obtained the support of 40 missions. Of its 242 students in 2005, 95 were men. In 1953, at age 82, Ida received
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' Hobart and William Smith Colleges#Elizabeth Blackwell Award as one of 1952's five outstanding women doctors. She died in 1960, at age 90, in Kodaikanal. A commemorative stamp was issued on August 12, 2000, as part of the Christian Medical College Vellore centennial. Its
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depicts Ida caring for pregnant women.


Fourth generation

Ida Belle Scudder was born in 1900, and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1925. She trained in
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before moving to Vellore for more than 30 years of service at the Christian Medical Colleges (CMC) and Hospital, founded by her aunt Ida S. Scudder. Ida B. founded the hospital's diagnostic radiology and radiotherapy departments, and was influential in CMC's transition to coeducation and its affiliation with the University of Madras for the first two years of its M.B. and B.Ss. courses for female students. She campaigned in the U.S. from 1941 to 1945 for funding for the coeducational program. The Dr. Ida B. Scudder Radiation Therapy Block at CMC was dedicated in 1991, and she died in 1995. An Ida B. Scudder essay competition was begun to perpetuate her ideals. Marilyn Scudder (born in 1939) graduated from
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in 1956 and
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in 1960. She received an M.D. degree from the
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in 1965, and was a medical missionary in
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for 35 years. Marilyn's work in Tanzania began in 1970, when she was head of the eye department at a hospital in Mvuni. She returned to Minnesota in 1971 for further study before joining the eye department of a medical center in
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near the village of Sanya Juu. She continued training nurses and conducting eye clinics there. She received an Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology on October 22, 2004, and the George Tani Humanitarian Service Award from the Minnesota Academy of Ophthalmology on December 10, 2004. Hope College presented Marilyn with a Distinguished Alumni Award on May 7, 1988, and profiled her in a story in the August 1985 issue of ''News from Hope College'' which had previously appeared in the Kodaikanal International School's alumni publication. Scudder was diagnosed with primary
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in 2002, and died on May 16, 2005, in
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. In 1920, Galen Fisher Scudder (a graduate of
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and
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) arrived in India. He was appointed medical superintendent of the
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hospital, with the responsibility of building the Scudder Memorial Hospital on $25,000. Galen went on a
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from 1933 to 1934 and was replaced by John Scudder, the great-grandson of John Scudder Sr. From 1940 to 1945, Galen performed war service. He went to
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and, after its fall, was the district medical officer in
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. Galen donated part of his government salary to the Ranipet hospital, where he returned in 1947 with surgical equipment and a large sterilizer. He added an X-ray machine, which was a gift of his Princeton University classmates and the
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Foundation, by 1953. A
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was added to the hospital for the X-ray machine, laboratory and blood bank, and four private male wards were built. Galen retired on June 1, 1954, after 35 years of service. With his departure, a century of his family's association with the Arcot Mission ended. Lewis R. Scudder III was a missionary in
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.RCA Profile in Mission for Lewis and Nancy Scudder
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References


External links


Correspondence and sermons
of Reverend William W. Scudder, as well as letters and personal writings of the Scudder family, are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at
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