Dr. John Hedley Henry Scudder

1883 - 1934  (50 years)

• Name	John Hedley Henry Scudder
  Prefix	Dr.
  Birth	7 Sep 1883	New Jersey
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Jan 1934	Oakland, Alameda, California
  Person ID	I17417	Scudder
  Last Modified	26 Jan 2014

  
  

  Father	Reverend William Henry Scudder,   b. 10 Feb 1857, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India d. 26 May 1911, Petaluma, Sonoma, California (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Mary Battin Hedley,   b. 21 Aug 1859, Staten Island, Richmond, New York d. 24 Aug 1936, Berkeley, Alameda, California (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	27 Sep 1882	Staten Island, Richmond, New York   [1]
  Family ID	F547	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Adele Wilson,   b. 20 Feb 1893, Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California d. 26 Apr 1979, Oakland, Alameda, California (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	1925
  Children	1. John William Scudder,   b. 3 Oct 1926, Alameda county, California d. 9 Jun 2008, Berkeley, Alameda, California (Age 81 years)   2. Charles Hedley Scudder,   b. 28 Sep 1927, Oakland, Alameda, California d. 20 May 2012, Rossmoor, California (Age 84 years)   3. Reginald Horace Scudder,   b. 6 Mar 1930, Alameda county, California d. 9 Jun 2002, Roseville, Placer, California (Age 72 years)   4. M. Scudder
  Family ID	F4788	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  John received his degree in Chemistry in 1905 from the University of California, Berkeley, and then went on to Jefferson Medical School where he finished his MD in Surgery in 1910. He joined the Army and served in the American expedition into Mexico in 1916. John was the 31st Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, surgeon during our nation's involvement in the Bolo War. The Philippine-American War of 1898-1902 is one of our nation's least understood campaigns. Sometimes referred to as the "Bolo War" because of the Filipino rebel's lethally effective use of bolo knives or machetes against the American expeditionary force occupying the islands. The war is often viewed as a mere appendage of the short Spanish-American war. Guerrilla warfare waged by the Philippine nationalists seeking self rule proved to be far more difficult and costly for the American forces than the conventional war with Spain that had preceded it. Ironically, America’s campaign to destroy the Philippine insurrection was a direct result of the United State’s efforts to secure independence for another insurgency half way around the world in Cuba. John was awarded the Japanese government "Order of the Rising Sun (4th Class)" for stopping a typhoid epidemic among Japanese troops and their families in 1919 while serving as part of the American Expedition Force fighting the Red Russians in Vladivostok in eastern Russia in 1919. He left the Army in 1920 and became a doctor in Berkeley, California.

  
  

• Sources

  [S75] A Jared Waterbury Scudder Reunion is held in California, No. 139. p. 5.