Biography of Scudder E. Shutt, page 156 / 157.  History of Northeast 
Indiana; LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the 
editorial supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and 
William H. McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Scudder E. Shutt is the present trustee of Keyser Township, DeKalb 
County. He is well known to the people of that locality, and by his record 
as a successful farmer is entitled to the esteem and confidence manifested 
through the office of which he is incumbent.
   Mr. Shutt, whose home is 1 1/2 miles south and a mile east of Garrett, 
was born in Allen County, Indiana, November 28, 1876, a son of Jackson and 
Lanora (Bowman) Shutt. His parents were born in Ashland County, Ohio, and 
were married in DeKalb County, Indiana, after which they settled on a farm.  
Three yeas later Jackson Shutter entered a medical college, and on 
completing his studies began practice at Harlan in Allen County.  He had 
to abandon his professional career on account of failing eyesight, and 
then settled on a farm in Jackson Township, where he lived until his 
death.  He and his wife were members of the Lutheran church, and in 
politics he was a democrat, and prominent in local affairs, serving as 
trustee of Jackson Township six years. In the family were ten children, 
eight of whom are still living.
   Scudder E. Shutt grew up on his father's farm in Jackson Township, 
attended district schools and was at home until twenty-four years old.  
February 7, 1898, he married Mary Shoudel. She was born in DeKalb County, 
north of Waterloo in Smithfield Township, February 10, 1876, a daughter of 
Michael and Catherine (Cline) Shoudel.  Her parents were both natives of 
Germany, her father born in 1827 and her mother in 1839.  After their 
marriage they came to the United States and were early settlers in DeKalb 
County, and spent many years of their lives in Jackson Township.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Shutt have the following children: Alouis, who finished the common 
school course in 1917; Edward, who graduated in the common schools in 
1919; John Victor and Esther, the last two being twins.
   Mr. Shutt is a practical farmer and owns 117 1/2 acres of land in 
Keyser Township, and is also a stockholder in the Garrett Elevator and 
Livestock Association.  Politically he has been quite a power in DeKalb 
County for a number of yeas as a democrat.  He is now in his second term 
as township trustee, having made a most creditable record during his first 
four years' administration of the office.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com


Additional information from George Shutt <protean1@earthlink.net>:

I was very pleased to learn of the page on my grandfather, Scudder Shutt. It
was very interesting and I learned a lot that I didn't know even growing up
around and living with him for the last two years of his life.

There is an error about his children. John and Victor are two separate sons.  Lester is missing and he is the one
who is the twin with Esther. Victor is my father.

At the ages of 10 and 11, Scudder was in poor health and I was the primary
"farm hand" and did all except occasional work by a hired hand, including
milking, tending the horses, harnessing and driving them for all work,
including a walking plow. Those occasional rocks the plow hit were like an E
ticket ride at Disneyland! Helped with the threshing bees too and wouldn't
change those, what may now be "child abuse" experiences for anything in the
world.

Scudder treated me to visits to the Auburn factory and to meet the county
school superintendent, among many others, when I was about 6 or 7
(1936/1937)

I have made something of a mark in the world myself and hopefully the best
is yet to come with the medical research foundation I am planning, to
virtually end premature heart attacks. Already know how, have to do the
research and get it published.

I was the original inventor of the microsurgery instruments for arthroscopic
surgery. The company that began in my garage soon became a subsidiary of
Bristol-Myers Squibb. My name is on surgical instruments in about every
hospital in the nation and many beyond, around the world. Apparently
assuming that Shutt was a doctor's name, the TV show, Chicago Hope used my
last name for the lead doctor and his wife.