Background
Sampson, John Patttrson was born on August 13, 1837 in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States. Son of James D. and Fannie G. Sampson.
Sampson, John Patttrson was born on August 13, 1837 in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States. Son of James D. and Fannie G. Sampson.
Graduate Comer’s Commercial College, Boston, 1856. Edited and published The Colored Citizen, at Cincinnati, 1859-1863. Assessor at Wilmington, North Carolina, 1865.
Clerk to superintendent Freedman’s Schools, Wilmington, 1866.
Clerk in Treasury Department, Washington, 1866-1877. Bachelor of Laws, National Law University, 1868.
Student Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1868-1889. (Doctor of Divinity, Wilberforce University, 1888).
Admitted to bar by Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 1873.
Appointed by commissioner of District of Columbia a justice of District Court, 1873. Ordained African Methodist Episcopal ministry, 1883. Pastor, Bordentown, New Jersey, 1884-1886, Orange, 1886-1888, Trenton, 1889-1891, Asbury Park, 1991-1993, Atlantic City, 1893-1894, Philadelphia, 1894-1896.
Presiding elder, Harrisburg District, 1896-1901.
Pastor Princeton, 1901-1903. Presiding elder, Boston District, North.E. Conference, 1903-1910.
Pastor Morristown, New Jersey, 1913-1916. Pastor Rahway, New Jersey, 1916-1917.
President board of managers Frederick Douglas Hospital and Training School, Philadelphia, 1895-1900.
Author: Common Sense Physiology, 1881. Temperament and Phrenology of Mixed Races, 1881. The Disappointed Bride, 1882.
Jolly People, 1890.
Pastoral Theology. How to Live One Hundred Years. Home: Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Married Mary A. Cole, of Bordentown, New Jersey, September 10, 1889.