William Sample and Margaret Workman

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Husband William Sample ^{1 2}

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            AKA: William Semple 3
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         Father: David Sample (      -      ) 2
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   Other Spouse: Margaret Jane Blaine (      -      ) 2 3 4

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Wife Margaret Workman ¹

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         Father: Hugh Workman (Abt 1759-1843) 5 6
         Mother: Peggy Bryson (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 M David Sample ⁴

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2 M Workman Sample ⁴

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3 M William Sample ⁴

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4 M Samuel Sample ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - William Sample

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He learned printing in Mr. Snowden's office at Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and at the age of nineteen went to Washington, Pennsylvania, where he established, in 1808, the Washington Reporter. In 1819 he was elected prothonotary of the county, and later removed to the West.

It is stated that in the year 1808, when William Sample was passing through the town of Washington, Pennsylvania, with the fixtures of a printing-office, intending to locate farther west, he was persuaded to remain in Washington and establish a paper. An office was procured in "The Swan," corner of Market and Belle Streets (later the Valentine House), and on the 15th of August in that year the first number of the Washington Reporter, 11½ by 18 inches in size, was issued by William Sample and B. Brown (brothers-in-law). On the 10th of April, the next year, the office was removed from "The Swan" to the first door below the post-office in Main Street, and in April, 1810, moved to the northeast corner of Cherry Alley, on Main Street, near the court-house, it being "the mansion house of David Redick, deceased," and in April, 1811, again moved to the house "next door south of Samuel Shannon, Esq., and one door north of Hugh Workman's, on Main Street, third square south of the court house." At this place the office remained until March, 1813, when it was moved to the fourth square south of the court-house, and on the 1st of January, 1816, was moved back to its previous quarters, where it remained till after 1823.
On the 9th of February, 1810, the firm of Brown & Sample was dissolved, Brown retiring, and Sample remaining as editor till his appointment as prothonotary in 1819, when on the 31st of May in that year he was succeeded by Samuel Workman, who commenced a new series, Vol. I., No. 1. At the expiration of Mr. Sample's term as prothonotary in May, 1821, he again became the editor and assumed the management, which he retained till 1833, when he sold out and removed West. He removed to Fort Madison, Iowa, taking with him his youngest son, Samuel, and his daughters, Sarah J. and Margaret.

In 1812 he was captain of the Washington Light Infantry, and commanded a company in the war.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 484, 507.

2 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 147.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 387.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 507.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 484, 507, 656, 956.

6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 628.