Selah Strong Woodhull (1786–1826)
Woodhull worked with Bushrod Washington in the American Bible Society.
Selah Strong Woodhull, clergyman, was born in New York City on 4 August 1786. Educated at Yale and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), his first ministry was for the Presbyterian Church in Bound Brook, New Jersey. He then relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where he was minister of the Reformed Dutch Church for nineteen years. A recipient of a Doctor of Divinity degree at Union College (1822), Woodhull briefly taught at Rutgers College and served as corresponding secretary for the American Bible Society.
The Manual of the American Bible Society: Containing Information Concerning Its History, Principles, and Work, with Other Facts Relating to the Bible Cause in General (New York: American Bible Society Press, 1893), 17.
John Farmer, "A List of the Graduates, and Those Who Have Received Degrees, at All of the New England Colleges, from Their Foundation ... Forming a Complete Index to All the Triennial Catalogues of All the Colleges in New England," The Quarterly Register, Volume VII, Number 2 (November 1834), 332.
Rev. Selah S. Woodhull in New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1670–1965 (Ancestry.com).
Selah Strong Woodhull in New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659–1999 (Ancestry.com).
Rev Selah Strong Woodhull at Find a Grave.
Rev. Selah Strong Woodhull at FamilySearch.