1813-1886
Samuel Wolcott (1813-1886)

Ju­ly 2, 1813, South Wind­ham, Con­nec­ti­cut.

Feb­ru­a­ry 24, 1886, Long­mea­dow, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Original pho­tos from the al­bum of Rev. Sam­u­el Will­iam South­mayd Dut­ton,
D.D. (1814-66), pas­tor of the North Church, New Ha­ven, Con­nec­ti­cut, 1838-66.
Con­trib­ut­ed by Dee­An­na Al­lum Gran­ston.

Samuel Wolcott (1813-1886)

Wolcott at­tended Yale Coll­ege (AB 1833) and An­do­ver The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary, and served as a mis­sion­ary in Syr­ia (1841-42). He re­turned to Amer­i­ca and pas­tored in Bel­cher­town, Mass­a­chu­setts; Prov­i­dence, Rhode Isl­and; Chi­ca­go, Ill­i­nois; and at the Ply­mouth Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, Cleve­land, Ohio. Lat­er, he was sec­re­tary to the Ohio Home Mis­sion­ary So­ci­e­ty. Over 200 hymns are at­trib­ut­ed to him.

  1. All Thy Realms in Mid­night Shrouded
  2. Christ for the World We Sing
  3. Father, I Own Thy Voice
  4. Goodly Were Thy Tents, O Is­ra­el
  5. Lo! The Faith Which Crossed the Ocean
  6. O Gra­cious Re­deem­er!
  7. On the Works of His Cre­a­tion
  8. Pitying Sav­ior, Look with Bless­ing
  9. Tell Me Whom My Soul Doth Love
  10. To Us Have Dis­tant Ag­es
Wol­cott’s bur­i­al place