Marvyn Scudder^[1]

1875 - 1935  (60 years)

• Name	Marvyn Scudder
  Birth	20 May 1875	Lake Forest, Lake, Illinois   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Jun 1935	New York City, New York
  Burial	New Canaan, Connecticut
  Person ID	I6962	Scudder
  Last Modified	28 Apr 2016

  
  

  Father	Moses Lewis Scudder,   b. 3 Feb 1843, Maine d. 29 Oct 1917, Huntington, Suffolk, New York (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Clarine Johnston Williams,   b. 14 Aug 1849, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio d. 24 Jul 1904, New York, New York (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	17 Jun 1873	Lake Forest, Lake, Illinois   [2]
  Family ID	F1376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marian Chappell,   b. 26 Nov 1885, Chicago, Cook, Illinois d. 16 Mar 1936, Jamaica, British West Indies (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	2 Jan 1908	New York, New York
  Children	1. Barbara Scudder,   b. 11 Feb 1910, New York d. 6 Apr 1985, Broward county, Florida (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F3100	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Marvyn received his preparatory education at Lake Forest Academy and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, and was graduated B.A. at Yale university in 1899. While at Yale he was a member of the track team and served on the board of "The Record." After leaving college he became a certified public accountant and was registered in New Jersey and West Virginia where he lived and carried on business for a time. For three years after leaving Yale he was in the employ of the New York Security & Trust Co., also taking a graduate course in accounting at New York University, from which he received a B.C.S. degree in 1902. He organized and became president and manager of the Investors' Agency, Inc., appraisers of stocks and bonds, in 1903, and conducted that enterprise until his death. Marvyn became well known throughout the United States for his work with a number of investigating committees in New York, Washington, D.C., and other cities. In 1920 he was accountant to the Lockwood Legislative Committee in the investigation of the brick trust. He also aided Charles Evans Hughes in the Armstrong Insurance Investigation and was active in the investigation of traction interests in New York; gas company investments; the Chicago Surface Lines investigation; Mayor Mitchel's investigation of the New York City Board of Education and a number of investigations carried on in Washington in which he served as a financial expert with House and Senate committees. Marvyn was the head of the investment firm which bore his name and also of the Investors Agency, Inc. He was the editor and owner of the "Marvyn Scudder Manual of Extinct or Obsolete Companies" and for many years controlled the financial library which bears his name. During the last twenty years of his life he was considered one of the leading financial experts of the country. He contributed to various financial magazines and also to "Science." I n 1923 he donated his library, known as the "Marvyn Scudder financial library," to Columbia university. Marvyn was a member of the Yale University, Accountants, Round Hill Country, Manursing Island and Garrison (Quebec) Clubs. He was also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars. During 1900-07 he was a corporal in company K, 7th regiment, N.Y. national guard, and later battalion adjutant in the 12th regiment.

  
  

• Sources

  [S113] National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 27, p. 159. [S218] Family Group Record for Moses Lewis Scudder and Clarina Johnston Williams. [S460] 1880 United States Census, FHL Film 1254221; National Archives Film T9-0221; Page 521A. [S571] U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-18, Roll: 1818993.