Samuel Woodworth

Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842) was an American poet, journalist and editor, born at Scituate, Massachusetts. He worked as a printer and edited several periodicals in New York, including the New-York Mirror, which he founded with George Pope Morris.

He is remembered chiefly for “The Bucket”, better known as “The Old Oaken Bucket”, written in 1817 and one of the most popular American songs of the nineteenth century.