author
William Louis Cuddeback
1854–1931
A Port Jervis physician with a deep interest in family history, he is best remembered for preserving the long American story of the Cuddeback family. His best-known book blends careful genealogy with a strong sense of place and heritage.
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Caudebec in America : A record of the descendants of Jacques Caudebec, 1700 to 1920
by William Louis Cuddeback
About the author
Born in 1854 and died in 1931, William Louis Cuddeback was an American doctor from Port Jervis, New York. He is credited as William Louis Cuddeback, M.D. on Caudebec in America: A Record of the Descendants of Jacques Caudebec, 1700–1920, the work for which he is chiefly known.
That book is a substantial genealogical history tracing the descendants of Jacques Caudebec and related family lines over more than two centuries. Rather than writing fiction or literary essays, Cuddeback devoted his published work to preserving names, relationships, migrations, and local history that might otherwise have been lost.
For listeners and readers interested in ancestry, regional history, and early American family stories, his work offers a window into the world of genealogical research in the early 1900s. It has endured because it is both a family record and a snapshot of the communities in which the Cuddeback descendants lived.