Samuel Buell Woolworth, Dr.

Samuel Woolworth graduated Hamilton, 1822; was successively teacher in Academies of Monson, Mass., Onondaga and Homer, N.Y., until 1852; was principal of Albany Normal School, 1852-56; and Secretary of Board of Regents 1856 to 1880. In all these positions he was a faithful, efficient, conscientious educator, and did vast good. He served as trustee of Hamilton College 44 years; was one of the founders and a president of the N.Y. State Teachers' Association at Albany. His mother was a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Buell, a graduate from Yale College in 1741.