The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-30

1866 Commissioned lieutenant con31ander on
the Colorado, flagship of the European
squadron
1s6s-SpeciaI service at Annapolis Naval acad-
envy for three years.
1S72-Assigned to steamship Congress- of the
European squadron.
1874-COm miSsiOned as commander and assign
ed TO the Alert
1s7e-s-Special service at the Naval academy,
Annapolis.
1S79-92-In command Of steamship Swatara OF
the Asiatic squadron.,
1ss2-5-Special service at the Naval observatory
and member CT the International prime
meridian and time conference in 1884.
1S86-Member of board on Notifications and
defenses.
observation-disclosures OF Naval academy at
Annapolis; delegate from United States to
international maritime conference, Wash
ingtOn in 1889; promoted to captain the
same year.
1se1-Made commander Of the ironclad San
Francisco.
lse2-First commander of the battleship Iowa.
1s93-7-Chief of the bureau of naval ordnance.
1S98-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 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 uninhuenced 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 we'll.
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
w
Lieutenant Roy @. Smith and the 9th
er to Ensign r. H. jackson. 1t was En-
sign jackson who while 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 commission through the
lack of 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 IL and his broth
! er Harold, is 8. They are now living
with their mother and two sisters in
] tastefplly modest brown cottage at