Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 235
the village of Osterville, Nov. 25, 1819. He graduated at Yale
College iti 1842, and studied law at Cambridge. He was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1844, aad entered upon the practice of his
profession in Boston, where his abilities were soon recognized.
He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature of 1861-2-3;
was a member of the National Convention which nominated Abraham
Lincoln for re-election, and supported him with characteristic
ardor. In 1869 he was appointed by Gov. Claflin, a Justice of the
Superior Court of Massachusetts, in which position he soon acquired
a high reputation, which bid fair to lead to early advancement
in the judiciary. But ill health, in 1872, compelled his resignation,
and a prolonged absence in Europe followed. In 1882
the office of Judge of Probate and Insolvency was tendered to
him, by Gov. Long, which, owing to the same cause, he felt obliged
to decline. Judge Scudder married, June 30, 1857, Nancy B.
daughter of Charles B. Tobey of Nantucket. His summer home
is in Marston's Mills, near the scenes of his earlier days.
The brothers of the foregoing, were Josiah, merchant, bora
Dec. 3, 1800, died Dec. 29, 1877; Freeman S., merchant, born
March 16, 1805, died Dec. 3, 1852; Edwin, merchant, born Sept.
23, 1815, died May 25, 1872. A sister, Persis, born Aug. 14,
1810, married Joseph W. Crocker, and died April 24, 1844.