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 HENRY E. SAMPSON. This history of Iowa is favored in being permitted to accord recognition to many of the native sons of the state who have been attained eminent success in the legal profession, and among that number is Mr. Henry E. Sampson, who is a leading member of the bar of the capital city of Iowa, where he is the senior member of the law firm of Sampson & Dillon, with offices in the Register-Tribune Building, which firm in years of unchanged personnel now ranks as the oldest law firm in Des Moines. Mr. Sampson was born in Audubon County, Iowa, March 6, 1879, and the place of his nativity was the old "Sampson Farm" in Viola Township, which was purchased by his father in 1875. He is the eldest of the three children of Cyrus Henry Sampson and Martha (Ellis) Sampson, the former of whom was born in Iowa County, Wisconsin, in May, 1850, and the latter of whom was born in the State of New York, July 31, 1860. Her parents, Solomon and Susan Ellis, after spending most of their lives in the old Empire State, came with their youngest daughter, Martha, to Iowa in 1867, where they settled on a farm near Grinnell and where the mother of Mr. Sampson grew to womanhood. Cyrus Henry Sampson is a son of Henry Sampson and the family name of his mother was Baker. Henry Sampson was born and reared in England, and was a young man when he came to the United States and became a pioneer exponent of farm industry in Iowa County, Wisconsin, both he and his wife having passed the remainder of their lives in that county and both having died on the old home farm, near Dodgeville. Cyrus H. Sampson was reared on the old home farm in Iowa County, Wisconsin, and the schools of his native state afforded him his youthful education which was further supplemented by a course in a commercial college at Sandusky, Ohio. During the long period of his active career he never severed his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and still continued to be concerned with farm enterprise, having extensive land holdings in Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Canada. Mr. Sampson was a sturdy young man of twenty-three years when he came from Wisconsin to Iowa, with nothing but a team and wagon and an ambition to live a successful and useful life. Two years later he bought his first farm in Audubon County, paying five dollars an acre. having established his home on this tract in 1875, he prospered and added adjoining acres until he had acquired more than a section of the best land in the county, and this fine farm estate continued to be the stage of his productive activities from that time forward until 1898, when he retired from the farm and established residence in the fine little city of Audubon, the county seat, where he and his wife have since maintained their home and where they are venerable and loved pioneer citizens of that favored section of the state. After moving to Audubon he helped organize the Farmers Savings Bank, of which institution he has been a director since its establishment. Of their three children Henry E., the subject of this review, is the eldest. Frank Cyrus, the younger son, in addition to looking after his farm properties in Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado is manager of a brick manufacturing plant at Audubon, besides being local representative of the Federal Farm Loan Bank. He served as representative of Audubon County in the Iowa Legislature during the Thirty-ninth, the Fortieth and the Fortieth extra sessions of the General Assembly, his political allegiance being given to the Republican party, the faith of which is maintained by the other members of the Sampson family. He is mayor of the Town of Audubon, having been elected in 1930. He has two daughters, Mary Louise and Frances Jane. Cora May, the youngest of the children and the only daughter, married Fred Ray Emerson in 1911, after which they moved to the old home farm of her father in Audubon County, and there they reared their three children, Delia, Luella May and Merle. Cyrus H. Sampson has ever been a loyal advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party. He and his wife are devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having their present membership at Audubon. In the rural community of Audubon County where he lived so long he was one of the principal founders of the Bethel Church of this denomination, and prior to this he organized and established the first Sunday School in the neighborhood, its original assemblies being held in the schoolhouse of the district. Until he moved his home to Audubon he was the superintendent of the Sunday School and the main support of Bethel Church. To be Continued. 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