WILLIAM THOMAS SAMPSON. 
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and warrior as much as the collegian. His forehead was 
broad and full at the temples; his hair was iron gray and 
rather thin; his beard was short and always recently trimmed; 
his nose was sharply cut and perfectly molded. His large 
clear dark eyes were remarkably brilliant and expressive 
and served to reveal every changing emotion of an otherwise 
immobile countenance. 
Although in the outer world a stern atmosphere surrounded 
the unapproachable plane of respect and admiration upon 
which he stood, in his home life there was a simple beauty 
and devotedness which made him greatly beloved by his 
family and his more intimate friends. He was twice mar¬ 
ried. „ His first wife was Miss Margaret Aldrich, of Palmyra, 
the friend of his youth, to whom he was wedded in early 
manhood and by whom four daughters were born to him. 
She was laid in her grave in 1878, and Sampson lived alone 
with his children until 1882, when he married Miss Elizabeth 
Burling, the mother of his two sons and the beloved com¬ 
panion of his declining years. 
The condition of brain weariness and diminished vitality 
in which he came out of the Santiago campaign did not 
deter him from the immediate performance of important 
duties in effecting the evacuation of Cuba on the part of 
Spain nor in the subsequent command of his squadron, but 
sickness steadily crept upon him and more and more lessened 
his powers and activities until he was overwhelmed in death, 
on May 6, 1902. His last days were lived in Washington 
city, and his burial place is the National Cemetery, at Ar¬ 
lington, Virginia. 
G. W. Littlehales. 
