Background
Sampson, Alden was born on March 13, 1853 in Manchester, Maine, United States. Son of Alden and Sarah Taber (Pope) Sampson.
Sampson, Alden was born on March 13, 1853 in Manchester, Maine, United States. Son of Alden and Sarah Taber (Pope) Sampson.
Bachelor of Arts, Haverford College, 1873, A.M., 1876. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1876, A.M., 1877. Student Harvard Law School, 1878-1880.
Artist, explorer and traveler. Game preserve expert, United States Biological Survey, 1907, for establishment of game refuges in national forests. Has lectured on literature, art and archeology, mountaineering and life of the forest before various societies in the East and West.
Active in effort to protect Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, from conversion into reservoir. Author: Milton’s Sonnets, 1886. A Bear Hunt in the Sierras, 1895.
The Establishment of Game Refuges, 1900. Essay on the Wild Life, 1905. Studies in Milton and an Essay on Poetry, 1912.
Home: Washington, Distric.
Married Mary Agnes Yarnall, June 10, 1890 (died 1911).