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Reverend Evarts Scudder[1]
1832 - Abt 1886 (53 years)-
Name Evarts Scudder Prefix Reverend Birth 2 Jan 1832 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
Gender Male Death Abt 1886 Person ID I3264 Scudder Last Modified 17 Jun 2019
Father Charles Scudder, b. 1789, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 21 Jan 1863, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 74 years) Mother Jane Marshall, b. Est 1797 d. Bef 1834, Massachusetts (Age < 36 years) Marriage 7 Oct 1823 Massachusetts Family ID F1162 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Sarah Patch Lamson, b. Nov 1842, New Hampshire d. Aft 1900 (Age > 59 years) Marriage 13 Oct 1859 Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Children 1. Dr. Charles Locke Scudder, b. 7 Aug 1860, Connecticut d. 20 Aug 1949, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 89 years)Family ID F1212 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Mar 2024
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Notes - Birth date from "Report of the Class of 1854," Harvard College, p. 59. https://books.google.com/books?id=isUnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=%22Evarts+Scudder%22+%2B%22sarah+Lamson%22&source=bl&ots=xpDE_0FHPz&sig=ACfU3U2lDPSeYBjzjs0y5G4doNxEiIo2Tg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRlvCAi_HiAhUPWq0KHfAoBLAQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Evarts%20Scudder%22%20%2B%22sarah%20Lamson%22&f=false
Evarts graduated from Williams College, 1854, a clergyman. While pastor of the Great Barrington Congregational Church, Evarts, along with two other citizens, agreed to fund the college education of W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and editor of its journal, Crisis, sociologist, civil rights leader, and Father of Pan-Africanism. DuBois had graduated from high school in June 1884, and wanted to attend Harvard. Instead, he was sent to Fisk University in Nashville in September 1885. This resulted in DuBois being confronted with racial prejudice and with a colored community. He found refuge in the church. Writing to Reverend Scudder in February 1886, the young college freshman observed that he had “united with the Church and hope that the prayers of my Sunday School may help guide me in the path of Christian duty.”
- Birth date from "Report of the Class of 1854," Harvard College, p. 59. https://books.google.com/books?id=isUnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=%22Evarts+Scudder%22+%2B%22sarah+Lamson%22&source=bl&ots=xpDE_0FHPz&sig=ACfU3U2lDPSeYBjzjs0y5G4doNxEiIo2Tg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRlvCAi_HiAhUPWq0KHfAoBLAQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Evarts%20Scudder%22%20%2B%22sarah%20Lamson%22&f=false
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Sources - [S15] Genealogy of Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, "Old Hunterdon County," New Jersey, p. 260.
- [S15] Genealogy of Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, "Old Hunterdon County," New Jersey, p. 260.