He graduated from Rutgers College in absentia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1876, later studying at Columbia Theological Seminary from 1879 to 1880.
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.
[5] Following his ordination as a foreign evangelist in 1882, he left for China, where he served as a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. for the remainder of his life.
Author Fifty Years in China Translator China's Only Hope, by the Viceroy Chang Ching Tung, Revel & Co., New York Editor Shanghai Christian Intelligencer, also called the Chinese Christian Intelligencer, a magazine with both English and Chinese editions Samuel was a grandson of Rev.
John Woodbridge IV, an American immigrant from England and a member of the first graduating class of Harvard in 1642.