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Scudder
Scudder, a surname, may refer to: People * Bernard Scudder, translator from Icelandic to English * Edward W. Scudder (1822-1893), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court * Horace Scudder, American editor * Henry Scudder (clergyman) (d. 1659?), English devotional writer * Henry Martyn Scudder, American missionary and minister * Ida S. Scudder, American missionary and physician * Janet Scudder, American sculptor * John Scudder, Sr., American medical missionary * John Scudder (physician), American blood researcher * John Milton Scudder, physician * Laura Scudder, snack food developer * Michael Y. Scudder, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit * Richard Scudder, publisher, ''Newark Evening News'' * Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1837–1911), American entomologist and paleontologist * Scott Scudder, American baseball player * Scudders in India, 42 members of 4 generations of a family devoted to Christian service * Thayer Scudder, American social anthr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scudders In India
Members of the Scudder family have worked as medical missionaries in South India. First generation John Scudder Sr., born in Freehold Township, New Jersey on September 3, 1793, was India's first medical missionary. He graduated from Princeton University in 1811 and the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, and practiced medicine in New York City. Scudder became committed to serving as a medical missionary of the American Board, and later of the Dutch Reformed Board. He went to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1819, and founded Asia's first Western medical mission in Panditeripo, Jaffna District. 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 cholera and yellow fever, and founded several native schools and churches. He was India's first American medical missionary, beginning more than 1,100 combined years of missionary service there by 42 members of five g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Scudder
Janet Scudder (October 27, 1869 – June 9, 1940), born Netta Deweze Frazee Scudder, was an American sculptor and painter from Terre Haute, Indiana, who is best known for her memorial sculptures, bas-relief portraiture, and portrait medallions, as well as her garden sculptures and fountains. Her first major commission was the design for the seal of the New York Bar Association around 1896. Scudder's ''Frog Fountain'' (1901) led to the series of sculptures and fountains for which she is best known. Later commissions included a Congressional Gold Medal honoring Domício da Gama ( Brazil's ambassador to the United States) and a commemorative medal for Indiana's centennial in 1916. Scudder also displayed her work at numerous national and international exhibitions in the United States and in Europe from the late 1890s to the late 1930s. Scudder's autobiography, ''Modeling My Life'', was published in 1925. Scudder received art training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1887–89 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Scudder
Laura Clough Scudder (July 19, 1881 – March 13, 1959) was an entrepreneur in Monterey Park, California, who made and sold potato chips and pioneered their packaging in sealed bags to extend freshness. Biography Born in 1881, in Philadelphia, as Laura Clough, she was a nursing student in Trenton, New Jersey. She worked as a nurse before moving to Ukiah in Northern California, after marrying Charles Scudder on July 4, 1908. She opened a restaurant across from the Mendocino County Courthouse, where lawyers encouraged her to study law. While there she became the first female attorney in Ukiah (but she never practiced law) before moving south in 1920, to Monterey Park, California, where Charles ran a gas station (a garage and attached brick building at the northeast corner of Atlantic and Garvey) until he was disabled repairing a car. They rented the brick building to a barber who turned out to be a bootlegger, and Laura, who was a Republican and Episcopalian, kicked out the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Scudder
Richard Betts Scudder (May 13, 1913 – July 11, 2012) was an American newspaper pioneer, newspaper publisher, journalist, and co-founder of the MediaNews Group, the second largest newspaper company in the United States. He served as MediaNews' chairman from 1985 until 2009. Scudder is also considered an innovator and pioneer of newspaper recycling. He founded the Garden State Paper Company, which later became one of the world's largest newspaper recycling companies. Biography Scudder was born to Edward Wallace Scudder and Katherine Hollifield Scudder, on May 13, 1913, in Newark, New Jersey. Scudder graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School Winter 2013 Loomis Chaffee Magazine before attaining a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Samuel Hubbard Scudder (April 13, 1837 – May 17, 1911) was an American entomologist and paleontologist. He was a leading figure in entomology during his lifetime and the founder of insect paleontology in America. In addition to fossil insects, he was an authority on butterflies (Lepidoptera) and grasshoppers (Orthoptera). Biography Scudder was born on April 13, 1837, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Charles Scudder and Sarah Lathrop (Coit) Scudder. His father was a successful merchant, and both parents had Puritan roots dating back to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1620s. He was raised in a strict Calvinist Congregational household.Leach (2013) One of his younger brothers, Horace Scudder, became a noted author and editor of the ''Atlantic Monthly'',Cockerell (1911) while his niece Vida Dutton Scudder was a writer and social activist. Scudder attended Boston Latin School, and then enrolled in Williams College in 1853 at the age of 16. He studied with na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vida Dutton Scudder
Julia Vida Dutton Scudder (1861–1954) was an American educator, writer, and welfare activist in the social gospel movement. Early life She was born in Madurai, India, on December 15, 1861, the only child of David Coit Scudder (of the Scudder family of missionaries in India) and Harriet Louise (Dutton) Scudder. After her father, a Congregationalist missionary, was accidentally drowned in 1862, she and her mother returned to the family home in Boston. Apart from travel in Europe, she attended private secondary schools in Boston, and was graduated from the Boston Girl's Latin School in 1880. Scudder then entered Smith College, where she received her BA degree in 1884.''Dictionary of American Biography'' (1977) Supplement 5, p. 616., Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. In 1885 she and Clara French were the first American women admitted to the graduate program at Oxford, where she was influenced by York Powell and John Ruskin. While in England she was also influenced by Leo Tolstoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Joel Scudder
Henry Joel Scudder (September 18, 1825 – February 10, 1886) was a United States House of Representatives, United States Representative from New York. Early life Born in Northport, New York, Northport. He was the son of Henry Scudder (1778–1863) and Elizabeth (née Hewlett) Scudder (1792–1870). His paternal grandparents were Henry Scudder (1743–1822), of Crab Meadow in Long Island, and Phebe Carll Scudder (1743–1821). His nephew, Townsend Scudder (July–1960), was a judge and also a U.S. Representative from New York. His maternal grandfather was Divine Hewlett. Scudder was descended from Thomas Scudder, who immigrated to Salem, Massachusetts, from Kent in 1630, and was related to fellow U.S. Congressmen Tredwell Scudder. He attended the district school and Huntington Academy. He graduated from Trinity College (Connecticut), Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1846. Career Following his graduation from Trinity, he studied law, was Admission to the bar i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Scudder
Horace Elisha Scudder (October 16, 1838 – January 11, 1902) was an American man of letters and editor. Biography He was born into a Boston family as the youngest of seven siblings—six brothers and one sister. His siblings included David Coit Scudder and Samuel Hubbard Scudder, and his niece was scholar and reformer Vida Dutton Scudder. He graduated from Boston Latin School alongside Henry Adams in 1854. His Congregationalist family made him attend Williams College due to its conservative orthodox religious values, though Scudder became more interested in studying literature rather than religion. After his graduation in 1858, he taught school in New York City, and subsequently, returned to Boston and devoted himself to literary work. He is best known for his children's books. He published the ''Bodley Books'' (1875–87) and was also an essayist, and produced large quantities of journalism that was printed anonymously. He was a correspondent of Hans Christian Andersen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townsend Scudder
Townsend Scudder (July 26, 1865 – February 22, 1960) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served two non-consecutive terms as a United States representative from New York around the turn of the 20th century Biography Born in Northport, Scudder was a nephew of Henry Joel Scudder, also a U.S. Representative from New York. Townsend attended preparatory schools in Europe and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1888. He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in New York City. Congress Scudder was corporation counsel for Queens County from 1893 to 1899, and was elected as a Democrat to the 56th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1901. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900 and resumed the practice of law. He was elected to the 58th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1905. Judicial career Scudder was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (2nd District) fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Martyn Scudder
Henry Martyn Scudder (5 February 1822 – 4 June 1895) was a missionary under American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America to Japan and South India—to ''American Madura Mission'' and ''American Madras Mission''. He established ''American Arcot Mission'', North Arcot of South India—then under Madras Presidency. Biography He was born at Panditeripo, Ceylon, on 5 February 1822. He was the eldest son of John Scudder, Sr., the first American medical missionary to India and second missionary to ''American Madras Mission'' at Madras—Sr.Scudder arrived at ''Madras Mission'' in September 1836, while Miron Winslow commenced it in August 1836 after East India Company opened India in 1833 to missionaries of all lands, including non-British missionaries. Henry joined his father as a missionary at Madras in 1844. He went to the United States in 1832, and graduated at the University of the City of New York in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice (film)
''Maurice'' is a 1987 British romantic drama film directed by James Ivory, based on the 1971 novel ''Maurice'' by E. M. Forster. The film stars James Wilby as Maurice, Hugh Grant as Clive and Rupert Graves as Alec. The supporting cast includes Denholm Elliott as Dr Barry, Simon Callow as Mr Ducie, Billie Whitelaw as Mrs Hall, and Ben Kingsley as Lasker-Jones. The film was produced by Ismail Merchant via Merchant Ivory Productions and Film Four International, and written by Ivory and Kit Hesketh-Harvey, with cinematography by Pierre Lhomme. It is a tale of gay love in the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England. The story follows its main character, Maurice Hall, through university, a tumultuous relationship, struggling to fit into society, and ultimately being united with his life partner. Plot During a trip to a windswept beach, Maurice Hall, an 11-year-old schoolboy, receives instructions about the "sacred mysteries" of sex from his teacher, who wants to expl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Scudder (clergyman)
Henry Scudder (d. 1659?) was an English minister of presbyterian views, known as a devotional writer, and member of the Westminster Assembly. Life He was a graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, with a Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) from 1606. He was minister at Drayton in Oxfordshire 1607–19, and in 1633 was presented by the king to the living of Collingbourne-Ducis, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. In June 1643 he was summoned to the Westminster Assembly of divines. When in June 1645 an order came from the House of Commons to pray for the forces, Scudder was one of the four preachers assigned to Aldgate. He was minister at the London church of St Mildred Poultry in 1645–6. On 6 April 1647 he reported on some of the proofs of the Westminster Confession of Faith, and on 9 February 1648 his name was added to the Assembly's committee for the scriptures. Scudder preached before the House of Commons in October 1644, on a fast day, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, and his se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
