A. D. WOODBRIDGE.
Biographical Sketch.
MISS WOODBRIDGE is a worthy descendant of very worthy ancestors; three of whom were so eminent for their godly and charitable lives, as to be chosen by Mrs. Sigourney, in her Biography of Pious Women, to set forth the brightest examples of religious excellence. They lived at Stockbridge, Massachusetts; and the subject of this brief notice, who was born in Penobscot County, Me., spent the happiest period of her childhood and youth among the hills of Berkshire, "the Switzerland of America." Her first poetical efforts were published in the village paper, and in Mrs. Child's Juvenile Miscellany. Afterwards she contributed to the New York Mirror, and wrote many tales and poems for the annuals, which were then in their palmiest days. In May 1836, she became a teacher in the Albany Female Academy; and in ten years from that time, removed to a similar institution newly established in Brooklyn, where she still pursues with mingled gentleness and energy, her useful and honourable, though often wearisome, vocation. There is much simplicity and religious hopefulness about her effusions, which are mostly inspired by the feelings of friendship and sympathy.