Background
Worcester, Samuel was born on November 1, 1770 in Hollis, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Noah and Lydia (Taylor) Worcester.
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Worcester, Samuel was born on November 1, 1770 in Hollis, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Noah and Lydia (Taylor) Worcester.
After attending and then teaching in local schools, he went to New Ipswitch Academy, and then entered Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1795.
He was licensed to preach in 1796. He was finally forced to resign from his charge. He became pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Salem, in 1803, which charge he held until his death.
He declined the professorship of theology in Dartmouth in 1804, and became corresponding secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1810.
Channing objected to the way Unitarians in the United States were portrayed in the review, Worcester replied to this objection, and an exchange of pamphlets followed. At the time of his death, Worcester was traveling for the benefit of his health.
Samuel"s brother Noah was a pioneer of the peace movement in the United States. Another brother Thomas (1768–1831) was also a clergyman.
Samuel"s son Samuel Melancthon Worcester (4 September 1801, Fitchburg, Massachusetts - 16 August 1866, Boston) graduated from Harvard in 1822, studied for a year at Andover, was a tutor in Amherst from 1823 to 1825, and professor of rhetoric and oratory there from 1825 to 1834.
He was pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Salem, from 1834 to 1860, when impaired health caused him to resign. He published Essays on Slavery, by Vigorinus (1826), The Memorial of the Old and New Tabernacle (Boston, 1855), Life and Labors of Review Samuel Worcester (2 vols, Boston, 1852), and single sermons and discourses, and articles in religious periodicals.
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He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives.
Married Zervia Fox, October 20, 1797, 11 children.