Samuel Isett Woodbridge

Rev. Samuel Isett Woodbridge, Sr. (1856–1926) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China. He authored several books on the experience, and also translated into English various works of Chinese literature. Early life and education Woodbridge was born in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky on October 16, 1856 to Rev. Jahleel Woodbridge and Louise Caroline Ligon. He graduated from Rutgers College in absentia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1876, later studying at Columbia Theological Seminary from 1879 to 1880. On April 8, 1880, he was admitted upon Examination to the membership of the First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina. 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.