Background
Woodbridge was born in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky on October 16, 1856 to Review Jahleel Woodbridge and Louise Caroline Ligon.
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Samuel Woodbridge
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Education
He graduated from Rutgers College in absentia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1876, later studying at Columbia Theological Seminary from 1879 to 1880.
Career
He authored several books on the experience, and also translated into English various works of Chinese literature. He entered studies that year at Princeton Theological Seminary where he remained until 1882, and was ordained a foreign evangelist on October 7 in Walterboro, South Carolina, by the Presbytery of Charleston. In 1910, he received a Doctor of Divinity from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
Upon his arrival, he worked in Chenkiang for twenty years until 1902, and then in Shanghai until his death in 1926.
They had eight children together, and seven of them were born in China during their mission work there. Reverend Samuel Woodbridge died in Shanghai, China, on July 23, 1926, where he is buried.
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Fifty Years in China
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- Fifty Years In China: Being Some Account of the History and Conditions in China and of the Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States There From 1867 to the Present Day
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Fifty Years in China
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Samuel was a grandson of Review Sylvester Woodbridge of New Orleans, and a descendant of Review John Woodbridge IV, an American immigrant from England and a member of the first graduating class of Harvard in 1642.
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