TIPTON COUNTY, INDIANA
BIOGRAPHIES
CHARLES W. SAMPLE has been a
business man at Kingman nearly forty years and has been closely
identified with the commercial affairs of that city, as a land owner,
banker and in real estate and loans. Mr. Sample was born in Jefferson County,
Indiana, October 29, 1851.
His ancestors came out of Ireland and settled in Virginia in colonial days.
His grandfather, Andrew
Sample, was a pioneer farmer in Indiana and died in Jefferson County in
that state in 1854. George W.
Sample, father of Charles W., was
born in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1815, a date which indicates the early settlement
of the family in that state.
Indiana was not admitted to the union until 1816. George W. Sample spent
his life as a farmer, and in
1853 removed to Tipton County, Indiana,
where he spent his last years and where he died in 1872. He was a democrat and an
active member and on the
official board of the Baptist Church.
He married in Jefferson County, Indiana, Adaline McKay, who was born in that county
in 1820 and died in Tipton
County in 1896. They were the
parents of seven children, Charles W. being the fifth in age and the only one now living.
Henrietta,who died in Clinton
County, Indiana, was the wife of
Isaac Houghman, a farmer also deceased. The other children were named Berdelia,
Catherine, Sarah, America and
John.Charles W. Sample grew up on a farm, attended the public schools of Tipton County,
Indiana, and the National
Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. Some of his earlier years were spent as a teacher.
He taught four terms in
Indiana and on September 20, 1878, came to Kansas and first located at
Sterling. In the spring of
1879 he moved to Kingman and taught a term of school near that city. He also
pre-empted a claim of 160
acres and made his home on a farm until 1886. His homestead was subsequently
sold, but he has bought and
sold a number of tracts of land in this part of Kansas. Even now many of
his interests connect him
with the soil, since he owns 920 acres in Kingman County.
Mr. Sample entered the real estate and loan business at Kingman in 1884 and has been a resident
of the city since 1886. He has
developed one of the large
and important concerns handling loans in this section of Kansas, and for over
twenty-five years his offices
have been located in the Courier Block. He is also a well known banker, being president
of the State Bank of Kingman
and of the Spivey State Bank. He has considerable local property, including
his own home on Avenue E,
West.
Mr. Sample is a democrat in politics, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which
he served for a number of
years as trustee. He is a past noble
grand of Kingman Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a member of
Kingman Camp, Modern Woodmen
of America, Kingman Lodge of
the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and belongs to the Knights and Ladies of
Security. On October 1, 1874,
in Indiana, Mr. Sample married Miss
Laura Wolldridge. She died at Kingman August 20, 1880, the mother of
two
children. The older is Rev. Orlando
L., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church now located at
Trenton, Missouri. The younger son, Willard, is practicing dentistry at
El Paso, Texas. On April 11, 1885, at Kingman, Mr. Sample married Miss
Clova Moore, a native of Iowa. They have two children, Walter,
assistant cashier of the State Bank of Kingman; and Hazel, wife of L.
L. Kabler, cashier of the Spivey State Bank.