Scudder Mersman

1888 - 1967  (78 years)

• Name	Scudder Mersman
  Birth	3 Aug 1888	St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Jan 1967	San Rafael, Marin, California   [1]
  Burial	St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri   [1]
  Person ID	I927	Scudder
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2007

  
  

  Father	Otto Lewis Mersman,   b. 18 Sep 1864, Missouri d. 26 Dec 1940 (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Mary Hord Scudder,   b. 19 Jan 1867, Missouri d. 16 Jun 1954, Lake Forest, Lake, Illinois (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	26 Oct 1887  [1]
  Family ID	F66	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marguerite Riddell,   b. 10 Mar 1886, Raiatea, French Polynesia d. 10 Jul 1946, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	14 Aug 1917	Tahiti, French Polynesia   [1]
  Children	1. Marguerite Mersman,   b. 21 Mar 1918, Tahiti, French Polynesia d. 1 Mar 2005, Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida (Age 86 years)   2. Scudder Mersman, Jr.,   b. 29 Mar 1921, Tahiti, French Polynesia d. 23 Dec 1981, Hillsborough, San Mateo, California (Age 60 years)   3. Otto Lewis Mersman,   b. 15 Apr 1924, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia d. 14 Oct 2002, Novato, Marin, California (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F406	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Scudder met his future wife on a steamboat enroute from Hawaii to Tahiti. He was travelling there with two of his friends to seek their fortune on the islands. It was love at first sight, and they were married a few months later in Papeete. The following year in 1917, although Marguerite was pregnant, Scudder returned to the United States to seel what he could do for his country in World War I. When he told his mother he had been married in Tahiti, his mother didn't know what to expect. But later, when she met Marguerite, she thought the daughter-in-law was the most beautiful woman she had ever seen. Scudder served in World War I as a captain and instructor in the U. S. Army Air Corps. After the war, he returned to Tahiti and became the U.S. Consul there. He remained in that position until after World War II. A few months after the war ended, he was posted to Accra, the seaport capital of Ghana where he stayed to the end of his years of service with the U.S. consular service.

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Genealogy of Descendants of Jacob Scudder T-2-3-7-Partial and Descendants of Peter Scudder T-2-3-11, XXVII, p. 15.