The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-04

G966-Commissioned lieutenant com1nander on
the Colorado, flagship of the European
squadron.
186S-Special service at Annapolis Naval acad-
envy for three years.
1s72-Assigned to steamship Congress Of the
European squadron.
IS74-COm miSsiOned as commander and assign
ed to the Alert.
1s76-s-SpeGiaI service at the Naval academy,
Annapolis.
1s79-82-In command of steamship Swatara of
the AsiRtic squadron.
1sS2-5-Special service at the Naval observatory
and member Of the international prime
meridian and time conference in 1884.
1ss6-Member Of board on Notifications and
defenses.
1887 9O-Superintenent Of Naval academy at
Annapolis; delegate from United States to
international maritime conference, Wash
ington, in 1889; promoted to captain the
same year
1s91-Made commander of the irOuclad San
Francisco.
1s92-First commander of the battleship Iowa
1693-7-Chief of the bureau of naval ordnance
1s0s-President Of board of inquiry of the
Maine disaster and subsequently succeeded
Admiral Sicard in command of the north
Atlantic squadron.
Admiral Sampson at Home.
To form an estimate of e. mans real
character and his personality those facts
relating to his private life as an indi-
vidual are invaluable and show the per-
son as he is uninfuenced by official life
and environment, which so often OBJ
scure the real self.
In his private as in his public charac-
ter Admiral Sampson stands the test
equally well, and in all those relation
ships attached to home life he has
proved himself worthy not only of COM
mendation, but of imitation as well.
Admiral Sampson has been twice
married. His first wife, to whom he
was married in 1862, was Margaret,
daughter. of the late David S. Aldrich,
one of the leading business men Of Pal
myra. The admiral has many relatives
still living in the vicinity of Palmyra,
and he visits his old home as often as
possible. He owns the famous Mormon
Hill farm, upon which is the hill where
Joseph Smith dug, as he alleged, the
golden plates from which the Book of
Mormon was printed by the late Major
Gilbert on an old hand printing press at
present owned in Rose, Wayne county.
George Sampson works this Mormon
Hill farm for his brother. The old brick
house on johnson street, at the south
end of Prospect hill, still stands, and it
was there that the future admiral was
born.
By his first marriage he had two
daughters, one of whom is married to
Lieutenant Roy G. Smith and the 9th
er to Ensign R. II. Jackson. 1t was En-
sign jackson who while a cadet serving
at Apia led the Jackies to the tops dur
ing the terrible Samoan hurricane and
| formed with them what is known as
| ''the human sail, - which kept the ship
| from going on the fatal coral reef at the
entrance to the harbor. For this gallant
act young jackson, who would other
wise have lost a commission through the
| lack of a vacancy, was retained in the
service by a special act of congress.
His second wife was Miss Mary Bur
ling, a preceptress in the Palmyra
| Classical Union school. The fruits of
| this marriage were four children, two
boys and two girls, named respectively,
Ralph Earle, Harold, Hannah (named
after his mother) and Olive Earring
ton. Mrs Sampson is cultured, mod
est woman who devotes much of her
/ time to the education Of her children,
/ which she supervises personally.
The AdmiraPs Bright Boys.
Ralph Sampson is I and his broth
| er, Harold, is s. They are now living
with their mother and two sisters in
a tastefully modest brown cottage at