HAMPSON, Joseph H.

HAMPSON

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/16/2006 at 13:40:34

"Fairfield Daily Journal", Tues., Oct. 10, 1916, Pg. 2, Col. 3

Joseph H. HAMPSON, once of Fairfield, died in New York City on Friday the 6th inst.. Remains taken to Kansas City, Mo., for interment.

Few young men have gone forth from Fairfield who, in after years, achieved greater success.... Many young men, and men of middle life, from Fairfield, found remunerative employment at the hands of Joseph H. HAMPSON. Much of his later work was carried on in the development of Old Mexico, and included the deepening of the harbor at Vera Cruz. At one time Mr. HAMPSON had made provision for a gift of $25,000 to insure a new building for the Jefferson County Library Association. This provision became inoperative by reason of the earlier gift made by Andrew Carnegie. It was Joseph H. HAMPSON's gift of $2000 in cash that put down the stone walks and coping around the present grounds....

Sympathy of friends in this city goes out to his widow and children, and to his aged mother, Rachel HAMPSON, of Greensburg, Penn., who in her 91st year, is the last survivor of her own or her parents' immediate family.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.