SAMPSON, Junius, Boston, MA., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JUNIUS SAMPSON, BELLE PLACE.--Junius Sampson was born in Boston, Mass., in
1849.  His father, Calvin C. Sampson, was a prominent merchant of New Orleans,
but a native of Massachusetts, where he married our subject's mother, Hannah
Harlow, a native of the same State.  Junius Sampson is one of a family of six
children, five sons and one daughter,  Chandler,  Frank,  Olive,  Calvin, 
Thomas Harlow and our subject.

Junius Sampson was reared and received his early education in Boston.  He
subsequently graduated from Harvard in the class of '71.  He came to Louisiana
in 1872, and engaged in sugar planting.  In 1873 he purchased Marsh-field
plantation, consisting of twenty-five hundred acres, cultivated chiefly in
sugar cane, to which it is especially adapted.  His mill has a capacity for
making twenty thousand gallons per day.

In 1879 Mr. Sampson married Miss Ella Rose, daughter of Wm. and Elizabeth
(Moss) Rose, both natives of Iberia. Mr. Rose was one of the largest and most
successful planters of Iberia parish; he was born and spent his early days at
Avery's Salt Island, a portion of which his mother owned.  To Mr. and Mrs.
Sampson have been born two sons and two daughters,  Anna H.,  Thos. R.,  Ella
Margaret and  Calvin C.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 130. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.