(Michigan) Genealogical Memoirs Of The Samson Family. Ypsilanti, Mich. : Printed for the Compiler by the Commercial, 1890.

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Samson, Erastus. Genealogical Memoirs Of The Samson Family. Ypsilanti, Mich. : Printed for the Compiler by the Commercial, 1890. First Edition. sm. 12mo., 18pp.. Original plain wrappers. Softcover. Good Lightly stained on the wrapper and first few leaves, spine chipped. A good copy of a scarce genealogy.

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"Samson, Erastus, Ypsilanti, Michigan, was born December 22, 1819, at Stamford, Vermont. His father, Caleb Samson, was a native of New Salem, Massachusetts, and enlisted in the War of 1812, but saw no active service. Mr. Samson is the seventh in descent from Abraham Samson, who came to this country from England in 1629; his brother, Henry Samson, having preceded him, in the "Mayflower," in 1620. Two sons of Abraham Samson married two grand-daughters of Miles Standish, the hero of Longfellow's beautiful poem. His parents moved from Stamford, Vermont, to New York State, about the year 1823; whence, in 1837, they went to Peoria, Illinois. In 1839 they moved to Ypsilanti, where Mr. Samson has resided up to the present time. His education in early life was that of the average boy of those days, and he was variously employed until the year 1840, when he became clerk in McAllister & Moore's dry-goods store, Ypsilanti. He remained there two years, when he engaged in the book and drug business, which he has ever since successfully conducted. He suffered a severe loss by fire in March, 1851, but, in less than two weeks afterwards, built a new store and resumed business. He married, in August 1844, at Ann Arbor, Miss Georgiana V. West, formerly of Onondaga, New York. They have three children. Mr. Samson has always shrunk from holding public office, with the exception of two years in the Common Council, and two years in the School Board. He has been an Odd-Fellow since 1845. In politics, he was an ardent Whig until the organization of the Republican party, since which time he has been a uniform Republican. In his religious views he enjoys the largest liberty of thought. "Love to God and love to man." Is his doctrine; he ignores sectarianism as tending to dwarf the soul." - Excerpt from "American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Michigan Volume," published by Western Biographical Publishing Co.,Cincinnati, O., 1878.