BIOS: Hon. John Scudder, Mason Co., KY

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Submitted by: Phyllis Hill (phill@redrock.net) Date: 26 Sept 1998
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History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co.,
1886

Daviess County, Veal Twp., page 898

HON. JOHN SCUDDER, a pioneer of Daviess County, Ind. was born in New Jersey April 20,
1812, and is a son of Dr. John A. and Elizabeth (Forman) Scudder, who were natives of
the same State as himself and of English lineage.  The father was born in 1743 and the
mother in 1755.  The paternal grandfather was Col. Nathaniel Scudder, a native of Long
Island.  He was a graduate of Princeton College, and was several times elected to the
State Legislature. He was a colonel in the Revolutionary was and was killed in battle
in 1781. Dr. Scudder, our subject's father, was a prominent physician and surgeon in
that war.  Their ancestry may be traced back to settlement in America as early as
1643.  Our immediate subject is the youngest and only living one of thirteen children.
In 1815 his parents removed to Mason County, Ky., and there resided until 1819, when
they came to Indiana, locating in Veal Township, Daviess County, where the father
practiced his profession.  His death occurred in 1836 and the mother's in 1848.  Our
subject was raised in what was then a wilderness, there being only one house between
where his father then lived and Washington that indulged in the luxury of glass
windows. At the age of twenty he began working  on a flat-boat and continued that
occupation for ten years. Since that time he has carried on farming.  Since 1845 he
has voted the Democratic ticket, prior to that he was a Whig. In 1840 he was elected
justice of the peace for Veal Township, and in 1851 was elected to represent Daviess
County in the General Assembly.  He has been trustee of Veal Township two terms.  In
1855 he attended a reunion of the surviving members of the Constitutional Convention
and of the Assembly of 1851-52.  July 20, 1844 he was married to Alice Arrell.  They
became the parents of six children, only three of whom survive:  Jacob F., Sarah E.
and William.   The parents are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and Mr.
Scudder is one of the leading men of Daviess County and one of the few living
pioneers.