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Henry J. Scudder

Lawyer/Congressman

Centurion, 1857–1886

Full Name Henry Joel Scudder

Born 18 September 1825 in Northport, New York

Died 10 February 1886 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Old Northport Cemetery, Northport, New York

Proposed by William E. Curtis

Elected 7 March 1857 at age thirty-one

Archivist’s Note: Brother of Hewlett Scudder; son-in-law of John H. Willard

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[T]he list of those deceased includes 16 names, which, ranged in the order of seniority of membership, are those of Asher B. Durand, John H. Platt, D. Williamson Lee, Thomas B. Coddington, Henry J. Scudder, Charles S. Seyton, David Van Nostrand, James M. Redmond, Samuel J. Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Short, Alfred Wilkinson, James Kent, S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Austin Flint and John Forsyth. The average length of membership of those who compose this list was twenty-one years and four months.

Horace W. Robbins
1887 Century Association Reports