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HENRY A. SAMPSON
Henry A. Sampson of the Lakeside Furniture Company, conducting an
extensive furniture store in Coeur d'Alene, was born in Albany,
Missouri, January 27, 1871, his parents being Lewis and Nancy (Stark)
Sampson, while the grandfather was Rodam Stark, a soldier of the war of
1812, who was a native of Virginia. Lewis Sampson was born in Clay
County, Missouri, and his wife was a native of Kentucky. He followed
farming near Albany and for many years lived in Gentry County,
Missouri, where his father planted the first corn raised in that
section of the state. Lewis Sampson was very actively and helpfully
identified with the moral progress of the community, being a sincere
and active member of the Christian church.
Henry A. Sampson attended the public and high schools of Albany,
Missouri, and when eighteen years of age became connected with the
furniture trade in Walla Walla, Washington, where he remained for
thirteen years. On the 6th of April, 1906, he came to Coeur d'Alene,
where he established a furniture store, being now the leading dealer in
this line in Kootenai County, carrying an extensive, attractive and
carefully selected stock.
Mr. Sampson was united in marriage to Miss Nannie Carey, a native of
Kansas City, Missouri, whose people were representatives of an old
family of Cass County, Missouri. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sampson occupy a
prominent social position and have been identified with many interests
contributing to the welfare of the community and the uplift of the
individual. Mrs. Sampson compiled a history of all the soldiers who
went from Coeur d'Alene to the World war. Mr. Sampson is a valued
member of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he was president from 1916
until 1919, and he is one of but two life members of the organization.
He has also been president of the Merchants' Association, which he
aided in organizing. His political allegiance is given to the
Democratic Party and in 1916 he was a member of the county central
committee and has done much to further the interests of the democratic
organization in the state. He belongs to the Rowing Club, has been a
member of the Regatta Association, is identified with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias and his religious
faith is that of the Methodist church. During the war period his
patriotic service ranked him as one hundred per cent American. He took
part in all the drives and in every plan and project to sustain
financially the government and promote the welfare of the soldiers in
camp and field.
[Source: History of
Idaho: the gem of the mountains, Volume 4; Edited by James Henry
Hawley; Publ. 1920; Transcribed and submitted to Genealogy Trails by
Andrea Stawski Pack.]
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