​ WOOD′WORTH, Samuel (1785-1842). An American journalist and poet, born at Scituate, Mass. After an apprenticeship in a printing office, he edited and printed a paper at New Haven, Conn., in 1807, and in 1809 removed to New York, where he conducted The War (1813-14), a weekly paper, during the War of 1812. He aided George P. Morris in 1823 in founding the New York Mirror. During his life he published a good deal of verse, as well as operettas and a curious romance of the War of 1812, Champions of Freedom (1816). His complete poetical works were edited (2 vols., 1861) by his son, with a Memoir by George P. Morris. He is remembered almost wholly for his song “The Old Oaken Bucket” (1817).