Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Samson, Sam 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 887 - 888
Author: : The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     SAM SAMSON, who owns and conducts the Hot Springs hotel, at Stevenson, 
Washington, has lived in the Pacific northwest for nearly forty years and 
through his persistent industry and good management has prospered, so that he 
is now very comfortably situated. He was born in Sweden and is a son of Sven 
and Carrie Swanson, also natives of that country. His father, who owned a farm 
and devoted his life to its cultivation, is deceased, and the mother, who 
afterwards brought her children to the United States, died in Connecticut. 
They were the parents of seven children: Martin, deceased; Olaf, who lives in 
Connecticut; Sam; Nels, who runs a large dairy in Connecticut; Peter, who 
lives in Stevenson, Washington; John, who lives in Connecticut; and Mrs. 
Sigrid Anderson, who lives in Sweden.

     Sam Samson received a good education in the excellent schools of his 
native land, accompanied his mother to this country in 1888, and was employed 
at farm work in Connecticut until the fall of 1889, when he came to 
Washington, locating in Tacoma. There he was employed in sawmills and also 
worked for a few years on a large hop ranch owned by Mr. Oliver at Alderton, 
near Puyallup. He was then in the logging camps for awhile and in 1892 he went 
to White Salmon, Washington, where he took up one hundred and sixty acres of 
timber land on Little White Salmon river, built a log house and entered upon 
the task of improving the tract, living there until 1900, when he went to 
Nome, Alaska, where for seven years he was engaged in gold mining on a large 
scale. He met with very gratifying success and in 1907 returned to the States, 
living in Portland, Oregon, about a year. In 1908 he came to Stevenson and 
bought the Hot Springs Hotel from Dr. Avery and has since devoted his 
attention entirely to its management, in which he is meeting with success. 
This is one of the prettiest of the smaller hotels on the north bank of the 
Columbia river and is well situated on the hill above the town, though only 
one block distant from the post office and business center. The building is of 
modern construction, having a large, glass-enclosed lannai, affording a 
magnificent view of the majestic Columbia. The building is steam heated, has a 
spacious and well serviced dining room, and every possible attention is given 
to the welfare and comfort of the guests, because of which the place has 
become very popular with the traveling public. The hotel is surrounded by a 
beautiful lawn and ornamental shrubbery and presents a very inviting 
appearance.

     In 1907, at Nome, Alaska, Mr. Samson was united in marriage to Mrs. Flora 
(Peoples) Arnot, who was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and who by a previous 
marriage has a daughter, Mrs. Walter Hufford, who is the mother of a son, 
Samson G., now twelve years of age. Mr. Samson is a member of Stevenson Lodge, 
A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past master; Oakland Consistory, A. A. S. R.; 
and Mountain Lodge, No. 172, I. O. O. F., at Stevenson, and he and his wife 
are members of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Samson is one of Stevenson's 
best known citizens and has shown a fine public spirit in his attitude towards 
all measures for the promotion of the city's best interests. He is cordial and 
affable in manner and commands uniform confidence and respect.

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