A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 FRANK E. SAMPSON, M. D., who has been long and prominently engaged in the practice of his profession at Creston, judicial center of Union County, and who now gives virtually exclusive attention to surgery, has made a record of noteworthy achievement in his chosen field of endeavor and especially in connection with the establishing of the admirable community hospital in his home city. Doctor Sampson is a native son of the Hawkeye State and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He as born at Middle River, Madison County, Iowa, June 3, 1866, and is a son of Carl and Sarah (Bunce) Sampson, the former of whom was born in the State of New York and the latter in Missouri, but their marriage having been solemnized in Iowa. Carl Sampson was a young man when he came to this state and gained pioneer prestige in Madison County, whence he later removed to Adair County, where he was engaged in the mercantile business at Greenfield a number of years, his death having occurred in 1891 and his widow being now a resident of Red Oak, Montgomery County, where she is a revered pioneer woman of eighty-four years (1929). The late Carl Sampson was a loyal supporter of the cause of the Republican party and he held for some time the office of justice of the peace. He represented the Hawkeye State as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, has service having been with the First Iowa Cavalry, with which he participated in many engagements, including a number of major battles. In later years he perpetuated his association with his old comrades by maintaining affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of the Congregational Church, as is also his venerable widow. Of the three children Dr. Frank E. is the eldest; May is the wife of L. A. Tuttle, who is engaged in the real estate business in Los Angeles, California; and Emma is the wife of Dr. Benjamin F. Gilmore, a representative physician and surgeon at Red Oak, Montgomery County. The public schools of Greenfield, including the high school, afforded Dr. Frank E. Sampson his youthful education, and thereafter he was a student in the University of Iowa. His ambition to enter the medical profession early found expression, and finally he matured the plans that enabled him to complete a course in celebrated old Rush Medical College in the City of Chicago. In that great institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1891, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for two years engaged in general practice in the old home town of Greenfield. Since 1893 he has maintained his home and professional headquarters at Creston, where he is now the virtual dean of his profession in Union County. The Doctor has insistently kept in touch with the advances made in medical and surgical science and practice in the intervening years, has availed himself of the best standard and periodical literature of his profession, and has done effective post-graduate work in leading medical colleges and clinics in New York City, Baltimore and Chicago, as well as in similar institutions in Vienna, Austria, and Berne, Switzerland. In his private and hospital practice he now confines himself largely to surgery, in which he has gained specially high reputation and marked success. Doctor Sampson has active membership in the Union County Medical Society, the Southwest Iowa Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has prominently concerned in the organizing and developing of the Greater Community Hospital of Creston, and with the work of that admirable institution he has been actively and influentially identified during a period of a modest inception when a small house was placed in commission for its use, in the year 1894, and in 1896 was erected the first unit of the well equipped and modern hospital that was destroyed by fire in the 1915. The campaign for the new hospital building was forthwith initiated, and in 1919 the main building was completed, while the old cottage hospital has given place to a modern community hospital that is distinctly metropolitan in equipment and service. The property is valued at $125,000 and is entirely free from indebtedness. Doctor Sampson has been a valued member of the hospital staff from the beginning to the present time, and his has been large and important part in the developing of the institution and regulating its service policies. It is worthy of special note that this was the first hospital in Iowa to provide a three years' course of training for nurses, and this department of its service has been specially benignant and successful. Dr. Sampson has subordinated all else to the demands of his profession but has been signally loyal and liberal in his civic attitude. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, he has membership in the local Rotary Club and the Cresmore Golf Club, and his wife is an active member of the Congregational Church. The year 1892 recorded the marriage of Doctor Sampson to Miss Eldora Hill, and the two children of this union, Carl and Pearl Marie, are twins. Dr. Carl Sampson is well upholding the professional honors of the family name. He profited by the advantages of Grinnell College, in which Iowa institution he advanced his education along academic lines, and thereafter he was graduated in the medical department of the University of Iowa, besides taking a post-graduate course in the medical school of Harvard University. He is now engaged in practice in his native City of Creston, as a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. His wife whose maiden name was Eleen Reardon, likewise was born in Creston. Pearl Marie, who is now the wife of Dr. Theodore Strong and who is associated with him in the practice of medicine at Long Beach, California, likewise attended Grinnell College and the University of Iowa, in the medical department of which latter she attended for three years, her technical study having thereafter been continued in the medical college in Denver, Colorado, where she received her degree of Doctor of Medicine. 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