Thomas Sample and Margaret Ann Logan

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Husband Thomas Sample ^{1 2 3 4}

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            AKA: Thomas Semple 5
           Born: 8 Jan or 27 Jan 1791 - Allegheny Co, PA 2 3 5 6
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           Died: 9 Aug 1876 - Lawrence Co, PA 2
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         Father: Col. James Sample (1756/1756-1830/1830) 2 3 7 8 9
         Mother: Christiana Taggart (1755/1755-1829) 8 10

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       Marriage: 1816 2

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Wife Margaret Ann Logan ^{1 2 11}

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           Born: 5 Mar or 31 Mar 1794 - Logan's Ferry, Allegheny Co, PA 11 12
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           Died: 26 Dec 1881 11 12
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         Father: Alexander Logan (      -1836) 13
         Mother: Eliza Watt (      -1846) 13

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Children

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1 M James T. Sample ^{2 14}

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            AKA: James A. Sample 12
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           Died: Aft 1908
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2 M Luther H. Sample ^{2 15}

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           Born: 31 Jul 1832 - Allegheny, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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           Died: Aft 1908
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         Spouse: Mary J. Shannon (      -      ) 2 16
           Marr: 29 Jan 1877 - Lawrence Co, PA 2 16

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3 F Eliza W. Sample ⁶

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           Born:  - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Spouse: John G. Smith (Abt 1819-1866) 6

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4 F Mary Sample ¹²

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           Died: Aft 1897
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         Spouse: William P. Eichbaum (      -Bef 1897) 12

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5 M Thomas Sample ¹²

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           Died: Aft 1897
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6 M Rev. John Logan Sample ¹²

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Sample

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He was born in what became Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and was the second mayor of the place, after its incorporation under a State charter. From 1812 till 1843 he lived in Allegheny City, and operated a tannery; during twenty years of the time he was justice of the peace. In 1843, he leased his tannery, and retired to Mahoningtown, Lawrence County, where he bought a large farm, and made it his home the remainder of his life, devoting his energies to the cultivation of fruits and flowers. [BOBLC, 69]

He was the second male child of white parentage born north of the Alleghany River, in Pennsylvania. He was reared on the old farm near Millvale, and in early manhood carried on a tanning business with his cousin, Judge William Hays, later of Pittsburgh. After his marriage, in 1816, he moved to Allegheny and established the Sample tannery there. He served as a justice of the peace for Ross Township, which later became a part of the city of Allegheny, for over twenty years, and was the second mayor of Allegheny. In 1843 he bought a farm of 100 acres in Lawrence County, which then lay in North Beaver Township. He was the father of seven sons, and to the boys was mainly delegated the farming, the father's time during his years of activity being much engaged in public matters and in looking after his Allegheny real estate. He made his home on the farm until his death.
The city of New Castle encroached on this farm more and more until a number of the leading industries of that place had sites thereon. These included the tin mill, the stamping works, the forge and bolt works, the tin can factory, and the box factory. [TCHNCLC, 917]

He and his wife had ten children; five were still living in 1897.

1 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 69, 128.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 917.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 796.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 252.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 242.

6 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 69.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 179, 412.

8 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 89.

9 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 168.

10 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 70, 129.

11 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 226.

12 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 70.

13 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 225.

14 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 129.

15 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 70, 128.

16 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 130.