Joseph Hampson    

JOSEPH HAMPSON, plumber and gasfitter, Meadville, was born in Toronto, Canada, July 31, 1844, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Smiley) Hampson, natives of England, who immigrated to Toronto in 1830, where our subject’s father died in 1876. Joseph, the sixth in a family of ten children, was educated in Toronto, where he learned the trade of a tinner, working at the same five years. In 1864 he came to Cincinnati and the following year to Meadville, embarking in his present business. He was married in 1865 to Elizabeth Dolmage, a native of Canada, of English parentage, and this union has been blessed with twelve children, of whom two sons and seven daughters still survive. Mr. Hampson, by his own exertions, has acquired a fair competency, having, besides real estate in the city, a farm in Mead Township.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 742-743

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