Son of George Duf­field, Jr., Samuel grad­u­at­ed from Yale Coll­ege in 1863. In 1866 he was li­censed, and in 1867 or­dained, as a Pres­by­ter­i­an min­is­ter. He served at church­es in Ber­gen, New Jer­sey; Ann Ar­bor, Mi­chi­gan; Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois; Al­too­na, Penn­syl­van­ia; and in 1881 be­came pas­tor of the West­min­ster Church, Bloom­field, New Jer­sey, where he stayed un­til his death. His works in­clude:

• A trans­la­tion of Bernard’s Hora No­vis­si­ma, 1867
• Warp and Woof; a Book of Verse, 1868
• The Burial of the Dead, 1882
• Eng­lish Hymns: Their Au­thors and His­to­ry (New York and Lond­on: Funk & Wag­nalls, 1888)
• Latin Hymn-Writers and Their Hymns (edited post­hu­mous­ly by Dr. R. E. Thompson), 1889

Sources

Hymns

1. O Land, Relieved from Sorrow

Translations

1. Ho­ly Spirit, Come and Shine
2. O Christ, the Eternal Light
3. O What Shall Be, O When Shall Be
4. To Thee, O Christ, We Ever Pray