Papers, (inclusive), (bulk) 1853-1967 1888-1960

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Papers, (inclusive), (bulk) 1853-1967 1888-1960

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, etc., of Ida Sophia Scudder, medical missionary and physician.

2.09 linear ft.; (5 file boxes, 11 folders of photographs, 1 oversize folder, 1 folio+ folder)

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Vellore Christian Medical College.

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Scudder, Vida-Dutton, 1861-1954

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Vida Dutton Scudder, 1884 Vida Scudder was born in India on December 15, 1861, the only child of Harriet Louisa (Dutton) and David Coit Scudder. She and her mother returned to Boston following the death of her father, although she spent much of her childhood traveling in Europe. She attended Boston private secondary schools, and graduated from Smith College in 1884. While doing postgraduate work at Oxford University, where she attended lectures by John Ruskin, Scudder d...

Scudder family

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Scudder, Ida Belle S.

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Like her parents and many other members of her family, Ida Sophia Scudder was a medical missionary in India. She was born in Ranipet on December 9, 1870, the youngest child and only daughter of John and Sophia (Weld) Scudder. When she was eight, her parents took a sabbatical and the family went to live on a farm in Nebraska. In 1887 she was sent to the Northfield School for Girls in Northfield, Massachusetts, where she studied until her mother's ill health forced her return to India...