Reverend Luckey was a celebrated advocate and adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was well known to American Methodism across the country in the mid-1800's.
Excerpt from "HISTORY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH in the United States of America" By Abel Stevens (out of copyright)
In 1810 Samuel Luckey, then in his twentieth year, was called out by Henry Stead, his presiding elder, to supply a vacancy on Montgomery Circuit, N.Y., which comprised between thirty and forty appointments in schoolhouses, barns, cottages and workshops, requiring about three hundred miles ride in four weeks, and almost daily reaching. In 1811 he was received by the New York Conference, and sent to Ottawa, in Canada. He made his way as best he could to Montreal, and thence fifty or sixty miles, through the French settlements, to his circuit. He was thus, in the very outset, thrown upon the heroic tests of the early itinerancy. He carried with him a few text-books in theology, and in the Latin and Greek languages, and there, in the wilds of the far North, began that course of faithful public service, which has identified his name with the history of the Church for more than half a century. As circuit preacher, presiding elder, principal of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima., N. Y., from 1832 to 1836; editor of the Book Concern from 1836 to 1840, regent of the State University of New York for many years, chaplain to the charitable institutions of Rochester, where he still survives, and preaches thrice every Sunday, he has done an amount of public labor hardly surpassed by any of his contemporaries in the ministry. Self-educated, beyond the average culture of his early ministerial associates, steadfastly devoted to his work of vigorous heath even in old age, a successful preacher, a participant in many General Conferences, and in almost every enterprise of his Church, he has contributed greatly to its prosperity, not only in the state of New York, but throughout the country. Methodism continued to extend up the Hudson through all this period. Its long depressed prospects in Troy began to brighten, and as early as 1809 a small chapel was erected in State Street, its only one for a score of years. In 1810 it is first reported as a station under Dr. Phoebus. The next year it was again merged in an adjoining circuit; but, in 1813, Laban Clark had charge of it as a station. In 1815 Tobias Spicer preached there with great success. A revival prevailed about two years. He reported two hundred and fifty communicants, and doubled the membership. During his ministry a young man by the name of Noah Levings became active as an exhorter. "After working at the anvil, through the day, he would throw off his apron and paper cap, wash, and change his dress, and walk, with Spicer, to Albia, where he exhorted at the close of the sermons." Naturally gifted with energy, rare tact, and vivid eloquence, young Levings rapidly rose to eminence not only in his own denomination, but in the general religious community. In 1817 Samuel Luckey had similar success in Troy, adding about one hundred and fifty members. In 1813 the erection of Division Street church in Albany gave a new impulse to the denomination in that city, and it has advanced, though with occasional and severe trials, ever since. Zealous Captain Webb had preached in Schenectady an early as 1766 or 1767, but its first Methodist society was not formed till when Andrew McKain, of Albany Circuit, united some fifteen or twenty members who had been converted, in social meeting, at the house of Richard Clute. The same year Samuel Howe was appointed their circuit preacher. They worshiped in private houses, and, later, in a schoolhouse, till 1809, when they built a humble temple, and in 1816 became a station under the charge of Laban Clark, though yet a "little flock," comprising but fifty members. Nearly the whole Ashgrove District was astir with revivals during these years. Camp-meetings were now in more general vogue than ever, and rekindled, summer after summer, religious interest throughout the whole territory of the middle and northern Conferences.
Many thanks to FAG member Time_angel for detailed biographical and date information.∼Lucky, Samuel (78 yr 6 mo)
buried: 13 Oct 1869
Residence: W. Alexander St.
Cause of death: Paralysis
Excerpt from "HISTORY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH in the United States of America" By Abel Stevens (out of copyright)
In 1810 Samuel Luckey, then in his twentieth year, was called out by Henry Stead, his presiding elder, to supply a vacancy on Montgomery Circuit, N.Y., which comprised between thirty and forty appointments in schoolhouses, barns, cottages and workshops, requiring about three hundred miles ride in four weeks, and almost daily reaching. In 1811 he was received by the New York Conference, and sent to Ottawa, in Canada. He made his way as best he could to Montreal, and thence fifty or sixty miles, through the French settlements, to his circuit. He was thus, in the very outset, thrown upon the heroic tests of the early itinerancy. He carried with him a few text-books in theology, and in the Latin and Greek languages, and there, in the wilds of the far North, began that course of faithful public service, which has identified his name with the history of the Church for more than half a century. As circuit preacher, presiding elder, principal of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima., N. Y., from 1832 to 1836; editor of the Book Concern from 1836 to 1840, regent of the State University of New York for many years, chaplain to the charitable institutions of Rochester, where he still survives, and preaches thrice every Sunday, he has done an amount of public labor hardly surpassed by any of his contemporaries in the ministry. Self-educated, beyond the average culture of his early ministerial associates, steadfastly devoted to his work of vigorous heath even in old age, a successful preacher, a participant in many General Conferences, and in almost every enterprise of his Church, he has contributed greatly to its prosperity, not only in the state of New York, but throughout the country. Methodism continued to extend up the Hudson through all this period. Its long depressed prospects in Troy began to brighten, and as early as 1809 a small chapel was erected in State Street, its only one for a score of years. In 1810 it is first reported as a station under Dr. Phoebus. The next year it was again merged in an adjoining circuit; but, in 1813, Laban Clark had charge of it as a station. In 1815 Tobias Spicer preached there with great success. A revival prevailed about two years. He reported two hundred and fifty communicants, and doubled the membership. During his ministry a young man by the name of Noah Levings became active as an exhorter. "After working at the anvil, through the day, he would throw off his apron and paper cap, wash, and change his dress, and walk, with Spicer, to Albia, where he exhorted at the close of the sermons." Naturally gifted with energy, rare tact, and vivid eloquence, young Levings rapidly rose to eminence not only in his own denomination, but in the general religious community. In 1817 Samuel Luckey had similar success in Troy, adding about one hundred and fifty members. In 1813 the erection of Division Street church in Albany gave a new impulse to the denomination in that city, and it has advanced, though with occasional and severe trials, ever since. Zealous Captain Webb had preached in Schenectady an early as 1766 or 1767, but its first Methodist society was not formed till when Andrew McKain, of Albany Circuit, united some fifteen or twenty members who had been converted, in social meeting, at the house of Richard Clute. The same year Samuel Howe was appointed their circuit preacher. They worshiped in private houses, and, later, in a schoolhouse, till 1809, when they built a humble temple, and in 1816 became a station under the charge of Laban Clark, though yet a "little flock," comprising but fifty members. Nearly the whole Ashgrove District was astir with revivals during these years. Camp-meetings were now in more general vogue than ever, and rekindled, summer after summer, religious interest throughout the whole territory of the middle and northern Conferences.
Many thanks to FAG member Time_angel for detailed biographical and date information.∼Lucky, Samuel (78 yr 6 mo)
buried: 13 Oct 1869
Residence: W. Alexander St.
Cause of death: Paralysis
Reverend Luckey was a celebrated advocate and adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was well known to American Methodism across the country in the mid-1800's.
Excerpt from "HISTORY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH in the United States of America" By Abel Stevens (out of copyright)
In 1810 Samuel Luckey, then in his twentieth year, was called out by Henry Stead, his presiding elder, to supply a vacancy on Montgomery Circuit, N.Y., which comprised between thirty and forty appointments in schoolhouses, barns, cottages and workshops, requiring about three hundred miles ride in four weeks, and almost daily reaching. In 1811 he was received by the New York Conference, and sent to Ottawa, in Canada. He made his way as best he could to Montreal, and thence fifty or sixty miles, through the French settlements, to his circuit. He was thus, in the very outset, thrown upon the heroic tests of the early itinerancy. He carried with him a few text-books in theology, and in the Latin and Greek languages, and there, in the wilds of the far North, began that course of faithful public service, which has identified his name with the history of the Church for more than half a century. As circuit preacher, presiding elder, principal of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima., N. Y., from 1832 to 1836; editor of the Book Concern from 1836 to 1840, regent of the State University of New York for many years, chaplain to the charitable institutions of Rochester, where he still survives, and preaches thrice every Sunday, he has done an amount of public labor hardly surpassed by any of his contemporaries in the ministry. Self-educated, beyond the average culture of his early ministerial associates, steadfastly devoted to his work of vigorous heath even in old age, a successful preacher, a participant in many General Conferences, and in almost every enterprise of his Church, he has contributed greatly to its prosperity, not only in the state of New York, but throughout the country. Methodism continued to extend up the Hudson through all this period. Its long depressed prospects in Troy began to brighten, and as early as 1809 a small chapel was erected in State Street, its only one for a score of years. In 1810 it is first reported as a station under Dr. Phoebus. The next year it was again merged in an adjoining circuit; but, in 1813, Laban Clark had charge of it as a station. In 1815 Tobias Spicer preached there with great success. A revival prevailed about two years. He reported two hundred and fifty communicants, and doubled the membership. During his ministry a young man by the name of Noah Levings became active as an exhorter. "After working at the anvil, through the day, he would throw off his apron and paper cap, wash, and change his dress, and walk, with Spicer, to Albia, where he exhorted at the close of the sermons." Naturally gifted with energy, rare tact, and vivid eloquence, young Levings rapidly rose to eminence not only in his own denomination, but in the general religious community. In 1817 Samuel Luckey had similar success in Troy, adding about one hundred and fifty members. In 1813 the erection of Division Street church in Albany gave a new impulse to the denomination in that city, and it has advanced, though with occasional and severe trials, ever since. Zealous Captain Webb had preached in Schenectady an early as 1766 or 1767, but its first Methodist society was not formed till when Andrew McKain, of Albany Circuit, united some fifteen or twenty members who had been converted, in social meeting, at the house of Richard Clute. The same year Samuel Howe was appointed their circuit preacher. They worshiped in private houses, and, later, in a schoolhouse, till 1809, when they built a humble temple, and in 1816 became a station under the charge of Laban Clark, though yet a "little flock," comprising but fifty members. Nearly the whole Ashgrove District was astir with revivals during these years. Camp-meetings were now in more general vogue than ever, and rekindled, summer after summer, religious interest throughout the whole territory of the middle and northern Conferences.
Many thanks to FAG member Time_angel for detailed biographical and date information.∼Lucky, Samuel (78 yr 6 mo)
buried: 13 Oct 1869
Residence: W. Alexander St.
Cause of death: Paralysis
Excerpt from "HISTORY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH in the United States of America" By Abel Stevens (out of copyright)
In 1810 Samuel Luckey, then in his twentieth year, was called out by Henry Stead, his presiding elder, to supply a vacancy on Montgomery Circuit, N.Y., which comprised between thirty and forty appointments in schoolhouses, barns, cottages and workshops, requiring about three hundred miles ride in four weeks, and almost daily reaching. In 1811 he was received by the New York Conference, and sent to Ottawa, in Canada. He made his way as best he could to Montreal, and thence fifty or sixty miles, through the French settlements, to his circuit. He was thus, in the very outset, thrown upon the heroic tests of the early itinerancy. He carried with him a few text-books in theology, and in the Latin and Greek languages, and there, in the wilds of the far North, began that course of faithful public service, which has identified his name with the history of the Church for more than half a century. As circuit preacher, presiding elder, principal of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima., N. Y., from 1832 to 1836; editor of the Book Concern from 1836 to 1840, regent of the State University of New York for many years, chaplain to the charitable institutions of Rochester, where he still survives, and preaches thrice every Sunday, he has done an amount of public labor hardly surpassed by any of his contemporaries in the ministry. Self-educated, beyond the average culture of his early ministerial associates, steadfastly devoted to his work of vigorous heath even in old age, a successful preacher, a participant in many General Conferences, and in almost every enterprise of his Church, he has contributed greatly to its prosperity, not only in the state of New York, but throughout the country. Methodism continued to extend up the Hudson through all this period. Its long depressed prospects in Troy began to brighten, and as early as 1809 a small chapel was erected in State Street, its only one for a score of years. In 1810 it is first reported as a station under Dr. Phoebus. The next year it was again merged in an adjoining circuit; but, in 1813, Laban Clark had charge of it as a station. In 1815 Tobias Spicer preached there with great success. A revival prevailed about two years. He reported two hundred and fifty communicants, and doubled the membership. During his ministry a young man by the name of Noah Levings became active as an exhorter. "After working at the anvil, through the day, he would throw off his apron and paper cap, wash, and change his dress, and walk, with Spicer, to Albia, where he exhorted at the close of the sermons." Naturally gifted with energy, rare tact, and vivid eloquence, young Levings rapidly rose to eminence not only in his own denomination, but in the general religious community. In 1817 Samuel Luckey had similar success in Troy, adding about one hundred and fifty members. In 1813 the erection of Division Street church in Albany gave a new impulse to the denomination in that city, and it has advanced, though with occasional and severe trials, ever since. Zealous Captain Webb had preached in Schenectady an early as 1766 or 1767, but its first Methodist society was not formed till when Andrew McKain, of Albany Circuit, united some fifteen or twenty members who had been converted, in social meeting, at the house of Richard Clute. The same year Samuel Howe was appointed their circuit preacher. They worshiped in private houses, and, later, in a schoolhouse, till 1809, when they built a humble temple, and in 1816 became a station under the charge of Laban Clark, though yet a "little flock," comprising but fifty members. Nearly the whole Ashgrove District was astir with revivals during these years. Camp-meetings were now in more general vogue than ever, and rekindled, summer after summer, religious interest throughout the whole territory of the middle and northern Conferences.
Many thanks to FAG member Time_angel for detailed biographical and date information.∼Lucky, Samuel (78 yr 6 mo)
buried: 13 Oct 1869
Residence: W. Alexander St.
Cause of death: Paralysis
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