Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal
Volume 1, no. 3 December 2019
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Was it Heredity or Environment?
Why Did Four Lathrop Sisters from One Norwich, Connecticut Family (with Scudder Ancestry)Each Decide to Give Their Lives to Missionary Service in Faraway Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]? When someone does something out of the ordinary, especially when they engage in a cause...
Who Was Joanna (Leffingwell) Lathrop
Who Was Joanna (Leffingwell) Lathrop, “Missionary Mother”of the Other “Scudder” Missionary Family to Ceylon?Who Was Deacon Charles Lathrop? Dr. John Scudder’s fellow missionary and distant cousin on board the Indus in 1819 was Harriet Wadsworth (Lathrop) Winslow....
The American Lathrop Story Begins
The American Lothrop/Lathrop Story Begins with Rev. John1 Lothrop’s Escape from the Clink The Lathrop sisters’ parents’ heritage begins with Rev. John1 Lothrop who fled from England’s persecutors and from his incarceration for his religion, arriving in Massachusetts...
Samuel Lathrop and Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop of Barnstable, New London and Norwich
Some character traits of five generations to their great-great grandson Charles5 LathropDescriptions primarily drawn from E. B. Huntington’s Memoirs of the Lathrop and Huntington families [1] E. B. Huntington, who gives an insider view of the Lothrop/Lathrop families...
Three Sons of Henry Scudder, Yeoman of Horton Kirby, Kent continued: Correction #2.
In this issue of our online Journal, we continue our series of articles to clarify and correct the history of the three sons of Henry Scudder, Yeoman of Horton Kirby, Kent (read Our Story begins with Henry Skudder (Scudder) Yeoman). This is necessary due to frequent...
Thomas Scudder Did Not Marry Elizabeth Lowers! She was Another Man’s Wife! – Correction #2.
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Horton Kirby, Kent, England[1] (click images to enlarge) “Thomas1 Scudder (T)” is the way the Scudder Association Foundation refers to the original immigrant ancestor of the Scudder (T) line in America. This designation serves to...
Christmas at Vellore Medical School
Christmas at the Vellore Medical School, circa 1939 Excerpts from a letter written by Dr. Ida B. Scudder soon after her return. Reprinted from Scudder Bulletin, volume VII, (March 1940): 7. “Well, Christmas is over and the New Year almost upon us. I had my celebration...