Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Sampson, John Augustus 1849 - 
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JOHN AUGUSTUS SAMPSON, who resides on section 4, Greenleaf township, is one of
the leading farmers and stock raisers, and also one of the most prominent
citizens in the southern part of Meeker county. He comes of a nationality,
which, through their industry and frugality, makes the most substantial and
valuable citizens of Minnesota. He was born in Sweden, on the 9th of August,
1849, and came to the United States in 1858 with his parents, John and Anna
Hellena Sampson. After having resided one year and a half in Jamestown, N. Y.,
he, with his mother and youngest sister, joined his father and oldest sister,
who had gone six months before, in Minnesota, in the fall of 1859, and took up
their residence with the husband and father, on section 4, in the town of
Greenleaf, Meeker county, where they still reside. A full sketch of the parents
will be found elsewhere in this volume.

   John A., the subject of this biographical memoir, was reared on a farm,
imbibing and acquiring from the necessities, the principles and habits, of
industry and economy which were so essentially a concomitant of pioneer life. As
no district schools were yet in the neighborhood, he managed to attend a few
months school a few miles from home, working at the same time in a private
family for his board. Being fond of reading and general information, he enlarged
his stock of knowledge in both the Swedish and English languages, and tried in
all respects to be a selfmade man. An opportunity offered itself to acquire a
more substantial knowledge in the winter of 1864 and 1865, when he resolved to
attend for a few months, the Anscary Academy, at East Union, Carver county, then
superintended by his brother- in-law, Rev. Andrew Jackson.

   On the 30th of August, 1874, he was joined in marriage to Anna Elizabeth
Romwall. His wife was born in Sweden July 29, 1852, and came to America in 1864
with her parents, who are still living in Carver county, Minn. Their marriage
has been blessed with five children, as follows: Freda (deceased), born July 2,
1875; Freda L. V., born June 11, 1877; Esther A., born June 3, 1879; Joshua
Theodore, born July 14,1881; Hannah N., born November 23, 1883; and Walter C.
E., born June 30, 1887. The family are active and prominent members in the
Beckville Lutheran church.

   Mr. Sampson has taken an active interest in public matters, and is rated as
one of the most substantial and prominent cjtizens of his township. In political
matters he affiliates with the republican party, and has held many offices of
local importance, including those of township supervisor, assessor, treasurer,
etc. In financial matters, although, like others in his township, he has
suffered some reverses, he has withal been very successful. He has a large and
valuable farm, a great proportion of which is under cultivation, and has it well
stocked. His building improvements are among the finest in the township, making
a home in which he may justly take a pride, and which is, in the enterprise it
manifests, a credit to the county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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