Zeno Scudder^[1]

1807 - 1857  (49 years)

• Name	Zeno Scudder
  Birth	18 Aug 1807	Osterville, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Jun 1857	Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [2]
  Burial	Osterville, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I3081	Scudder
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2007

  
  

  Father	Deacon Josiah Scudder,   c. 30 Nov 1775, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 26 Mar 1851, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age ~ 75 years)
  Mother	Hannah Lovell,   b. Abt 1780   d. 17 Sep 1844, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	26 Dec 1799	Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F1108	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Like many Scudders, Zeno wanted to follow the sea, but a paralysis of his right leg made that impossible. He studied medicine at Bowdoin College but his lameness hindered his practice so he decided to take up law at the Cambridge Law School. Zeno was admitted to the Barnstable bar in 1836. He practiced his profession in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts senate 1846-1848, serving as president. He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1851, until his resignation on March 4, 1854, because of a fall that fractured his leg, from the effects of which he never recovered.

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] Genealogy of Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, "Old Hunterdon County," New Jersey, p. 257. [S378] 17th, 18th & 19th Century Cape Cod Gravestones. [S377] International Genealogical Index (R). [S713] David O'Killia, the immigrant of Old Yarmouth, Massachusetts with his descendants and allied familie, p. 112.