Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Scudder, Frank Seymour April 28, 1862 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

FRANK SEYMOUR SCUDDER, Minister and Educator. Born in distant India, the son 
of Christian missionaries, Frank S. Scudder, teacher, minister and missionary, 
has found fruitful fields of activity in the Orient, on the American mainland 
and in the Hawaiian Islands.
  His first work was as teacher in Tarrytown, New York, in 1885, the next year 
finding him similarly engaged at San Antonio, Texas. In 1890 he became 
actively interested in missionary work as home missionary at Havana, Illinois, 
and from 1892 to 1893 he was secretary and treasurer of the Arabian Mission. 
The following year Mr. Scudder went to Mount Vernon, N.Y., as pastor of the 
Reformed Church in America, where he remained until 1897, when he was sent to 
Nagano, Japan, as field missionary in charge of the Shinshu field. He remained 
there one year, going to Meiji Gakuin, Tokyo, the year following to teach. He 
was there until 1906, when, following the death of his wife, he came with his 
family to Hawaii. In 1907 he was called by the Hawaiian Board for missionary 
work and became superintendent of the Japanese Department, which position he 
occupied until 1923. During his superintendency he was instrumental in 
acquiring new church property in Hawaii to the value of about $150,000.
  Mr. Scudder is a lover of nature and on Arbor Day, 1910, through a movement 
which he organized, 5522 trees were planted in camps and villages throughout 
the territory. He published “Rutgers Songs”, 1885; Religious Cantatas; 
and “Yomigaeri ns Uta,” 1901; “Kurisumasu no Yorokobi no Otozura,” 1903; 
and “Gessemane no Sayo-Arashi,” 1906, in the Japanese language. From 1908 to 
1920 Mr. Scudder was managing editor of “The Friend.”
  Born at Conoor, India, April 28, 1862, the son of Ezekeil Carmen and Sarah 
(Tracy) Scudder, he received his education at Rutgers College and the New 
Brunswick (N.J.) Theological Seminary. In 1894 he married Florence Dumont 
Schenck of New Brunswick, N.J., who died in Japan in 1906. Their children, 
Margaret Miller, Raymond Dumont and Ruth Dorothy Scudder, were all born in 
Japan. In 1911 he married Mary French Patton of Devon, Pa. They have one 
child, Maile, born in Honolulu.


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