The Reverend Samuel Merrill Woodbridge was a clergyman in the Reformed Church in America. He taught for 44 years as professor of ecclesiastical history and church government at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Woodbridge later led the seminary as Dean and President of the Faculty from 1883 to 1901.
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The Reverend Samuel Merrill Woodbridge was a clergyman in the Reformed Church in America. He taught for 44 years as professor of ecclesiastical history and church government at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Woodbridge later led the seminary as Dean and President of the Faculty from 1883 to 1901. He was the author of three books and several published sermons and addresses covering various aspects of Christian faith, theology, church history and government. He died on June 23, 1905 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was interred in a family plot in the Elmwood Cemetery, North Brunswick, N.J.
He married twice. His first marriage was to Caroline Bergen in February 1845; the couple had one daughter, Caroline Caroline Woodbridge. On December 20, 1866 he married his second wife, Anna Dayton Woodbridge, with whom he had two daughters, Anna and Elizabeth. He received honorary degrees from Union College and Rutgers College during his career.
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