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Show ADMIRAL SAMPSON DUO. UST BtTTLC VS FOUGHT WI1M INS.tciB DISEASE OF THE BRAIN. Ilal sen -rlr. In All Itrsnrhf sf lit Navy. Iw W Mrh lie We ApimlnSnl le tail -ll-'l '" HI r,.r ..ioe Urn: Hear A.linlnil Wllllnin T. Hsnr,, retired, died at his home In Wssnlc-ton Wssnlc-ton at 3 o'clock Tuesday eftemo-The eftemo-The Immediate cause of death aevere cerebral hemorrhage, lie itul been In a aeml-coiiscloua tit-' li aeversl days. William Thomas Nampeon, rr-l-mlral U. H. N., retired, waa Ivrttln Palmyra, N. V., February 9. I). Be waa the sou of Jsmes and Bsrrsh Walker rJampson. Ha waa apfnlmed to tha navy September 34, lnw ed graduated at the head of hla dsei in tha United Stalet Naval acadtiej In IMI. In IH9 the degraa of It. V), waa conferred upon htm by IWnrd nnlverelty. Admiral Hampsoi twice married, the Drat time Initu) to Margaret Helton Aldrlch, the atond time In till to Elisabeth flu),ur ling. Ha waa promoted to master IRH, was commissioned lieutenant In July. 1h(U. Admiral Hampaon waa eicitlv oflloar of the Ironclad Patapaea fhan It waa blown nphy the mine InChrle Um harbor; ha waa blown Inn th water, but rescued. On July It, lifts, ha waa appointed lleutenant4onfan-der; lleutenant4onfan-der; on August 9, 1874, eumnanar; captain in March, Imv, and auteriiten-dent auteriiten-dent of the Naval araJemy froa lAl to Iflvo. II ha aeen aervlc In all eratchei of the navy; waa an expert oooribsnce and torpedoes, and, with Lieut. Joseph Htrauss, devised and perfxlei the superimposed turrets lutrodneel Into tha navy, 1 After th declaration of whi with Hp'aln, h commanded the Norfi At-lantlo At-lantlo squadron with the rank a acting act-ing rear-admiral, lie we pniinseil to tha rnk of commodore In -K and rear-admiral In 1HUV. In thn Msnlsh American war hla command nutlered 113 vessels tha strongest ever gn-Ired gn-Ired for hostile purposes; thk fleet eaptured many Npaoish merchut vea-el vea-el and blocked runners fpu llnal-ly llnal-ly defeated the Hpaulsh I r' under Carvers. In Heptember, 1HU, Mampeoiesa appointed ap-pointed one of th three coinmiuioner to Cuba, and resumed coramendtf the I North Allantlo squadron in Dtamber, lo. , Ou.Uolober 14, INUU, Jimlrsl auiiaiu naa sppotnt .ySUWyew" of tlie lloslou uavy yare. |