Townsend Scudder, III^[1]

1900 - 1988  (88 years)

• Name	Townsend Scudder
  Suffix	III
  Nickname	Town
  Birth	27 Aug 1900	New York, New York   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Oct 1988	Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut
  Person ID	I9079	Scudder
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2013

  
  

  Father	Judge Townsend Scudder, II,   b. 26 Jul 1865, Northport, Suffolk, New York d. 22 Feb 1960, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age 94 years)
  Mother	Mary Dannant Thayer,   b. 28 Nov 1865, Brooklyn, Kings, New York d. 2 Jan 1924, Brooklyn, Kings, New York (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	3 Jun 1891	New York, New York   [2]
  Family ID	F3221	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Virginia Louise Boody,   b. 27 Oct 1902, Brooklyn, Queens, New York d. 7 Jun 2004, Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 101 years)
  Marriage	23 Jun 1922/1923	Brooklyn, Queens, New York
  Children	1. Townsend Scudder, IV,   b. 3 Jan 1927, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 6 May 2016, Middlebury, Vermont (Age 89 years)   2. T. Scudder
  Family ID	F1558	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Townsend, a graduate of Yale University, taught English at Yale and at Swarthmore College. He was a founder in 1950 of the Center for Information on America, a nonpartisan publisher of pamphlets on issues affecting the United States. He ran the organization until his retirement in 1980. Townsend wrote several books, including ''Emerson, the Lonely, Wayfaring Man,'' published in 1936 by Oxford University Press, and ''Concord: American Town,'' published in 1947 by Little, Brown & Company.

  
  

• Sources

  [S20] Ancestral File (R). [S270] Townsend Scudder II (1865-1960), No. 102, p. 3.