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Mr. Scudder began his career as a sailor,
this vocation he relinquished for mercantile pursuits
but was soon compelled by an affliction to change his plan of life
and turned his attention successively to the study of Medicine and Law.
In the latter profession he became a devoted student, and an able counsellor.
He was admitted to the Bar in 1836;
in 1846 and 1847 he was a member
and in 1848 the President of the Senate of Massachusetts.
He was Representative in the 32d Congress of the U. S. and was elected to the 33d Congress
but prevented from taking his seat by an accident
which prostrated him in the midst of his happiness and hopes
and from that time he lingered a constant sufferer to the hour of his departure.
The continued confidence and honorable preferments
of an honest, enterprising and intelligent community
bear ample testimony to the private and public virtues of the deceased,
to his moral purity and his intellectual ability.