Sumner's military appointment was facilitated by Samuel Appleton Storrow, Judge Advocate Major on the staff of General Jacob Jennings Brown of the Northern department.

) In recognition of their long-standing friendship, Sumner would later name one of his sons Samuel Storrow Sumner.

They had six children together: Nancy, Margaret Foster, Sarah Montgomery, Mary Heron, Edwin Vose Jr., and Samuel Storrow Sumner.

After the war's end, he stayed in the army and served in the cavalry during the Indian Wars as did his brother Civil War brevet brigadier general Edwin Vose Sumner, Jr. Samuel's name commemorates his father's mentor and friend, Samuel Appleton Storrow ( 1787 – 1837 ), previously a Judge Advocate Major in the U. S. Army.

When the grant lapsed, the town was rechartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 13, 1763 as Gilsum, combining the surnames of two proprietors, Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner.

Brigadier General Samuel Sumner assumed command of the cavalry and Wood took the second brigade as Brigadier General.

* Samuel S. Sumner ( 1842 – 1937 ), American general

Gen. Samuel S. Sumner.

Sumner attended the Boston Latin School, where he counted Robert Charles Winthrop, James Freeman Clarke, Samuel Francis Smith, and Wendell Phillips, among his closest friends.

Sumner was a friend of Samuel Gridley Howe and a guiding force for the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, started in 1863.

A bachelor for most of his life, Sumner began courting Alice Mason Hooper, the daughter of Massachusetts Representative Samuel Hooper, in 1866 and the two were married that October.

Jacob F. Kent commanded the 1st Division, Henry W. Lawton commanded the 2nd Division, and Joseph Wheeler commanded the dismounted Cavalry Division but was suffering from fever and had to turn over command to General Samuel S. Sumner.

* Cavalry Division ( Dismounted ) – Major General Joseph Wheeler, Division Executive Officer Samuel S. Sumner ( 1st Brigade ) was in command of the division when the battle began as General Wheeler was ill. Wheeler returned to the front once the battle was underway.

** 1st Brigade – Brigadier General Samuel S. Sumner, Brigade Executive Officer Colonel Henry K. Carroll ( 6th Cav ), consisted of the 3rd U. S. Cavalry, 6th U. S. Cavalry and 9th U. S. Cavalry.

Brady photographed and made portraits of many senior Union officers in the war, including Ulysses S. Grant, Nathaniel Banks, Don Carlos Buell, Ambrose Burnside, Benjamin Butler, Joshua Chamberlain, George Custer, David Farragut, John Gibbon, Winfield Hancock, Samuel P. Heintzelman, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Howard, David Hunter, John A. Logan, Irvin McDowell, George McClellan, James McPherson, George Meade, Montgomery C. Meigs, David Dixon Porter, William Rosecrans, John Schofield, William Sherman, Daniel Sickles, Henry Warner Slocum, George Stoneman, Edwin V. Sumner, George Thomas, Emory Upton, James Wadsworth, and Lew Wallace.

Gen. Samuel S. Sumner.

On November 23, 1824, Cushing married Caroline Elizabeth Wilde, daughter of Judge Samuel Sumner Wilde, of the Supreme Judicial Court.

He was appointed by John Bird Sumner, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and consecrated on 15 December 1861, at the suggestion of Samuel Wilberforce and Queen Victoria, as the church's first bishop of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

After graduating from Harvard, Sumner took charge of the Roxbury school, where he remained for two years while he apprenticed law under Samuel Quincy, the provincial solicitor general.

In 1795 some factions of the Federalist Party sought to promote Sumner as a candidate for governor, but he was not formally nominated, and Governor Samuel Adams was reelected.

Samuel Lee, the editor ( 1842 ) and translator ( 1843 ) of the Syriac Theophania thought that the work must have been written " after the general peace restored to the Church by Constantine, and before either the ' Praeparatio ,' or the ' Demonstratio Evengelica ,' was written.

Painted from a panoramic sketch of Early Melbourne in 1842 by Samuel Jackson.

The Haddiscoe Cut was taken over by the Commissioners in 1842 and sold to the railway developer Sir Samuel Morton Peto.

With income failing to match expenditure, the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission could not be repaid, so they took over the navigation in 1842, and sold it to the railway contractor Sir Samuel Morton Peto.

* Samuel Clesson Allen, ( 1772 – 1842 ), United States Congressman from Massachusetts, Congregationalist minister

The first water route across Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Chicago began as a mail route in 1825, but service was sporadic until 1842 when Samuel and Eber Ward began a permanent service.

* Samuel Lewis Southard ( 1787 – 1842 ), served as U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and the 10th Governor of New Jersey.

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

The village was incorporated in 1842 as Salubria, then " Jefferson ", but was renamed Watkins after Dr. Samuel Watkins, for his contributions to the community.

The postoffice was established July 25, 1842, named Warrensville, and Samuel Torbert was appointed postmaster.

The Company was unable to repay the £ 50, 000 loan, and so in 1842 the Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioners took control of the navigation, and sold it to Sir Samuel Morton Peto, a developer who wanted to build railways along its banks.

In 1842, Samuel Booth, who by then was bankrupt, could no longer afford his son's school fees, and 13-year-old William Booth was apprenticed to a pawnbroker.

* Maria Antoinetta Paine, b. Dec. 2, 1782 ; d. March 26, 1842 ; m. Deacon Samuel Greele.

Gottlieb Samuel Studer published an account of the next ascent made by himself and Bürki in 1842.

Samuel Fox established a steel works from 1842, and built much of the infrastructure of Stocksbridge.

Samuel Fox took over a disused corn mill near the centre of Stockbridge in 1842 and adapted it to making wire for textile pins.

* Samuel Smith ( New Hampshire ) ( 1765 – 1842 ), U. S. Representative from New Hampshire

After his first wife's death in 1874, in 1876 he married Hyacinth Jardine ( 1842 – 1921 ), daughter of William Samuel Symonds and the widow of Sir William Jardine.

In early 1842, both groups organized elections of their own, leading in April to the selections of both Dorr and Samuel Ward King as Governor of Rhode Island.

* Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip ( 1842 – 1897 )

This was first proven by British mathematician Samuel Earnshaw in 1842.

On 5 April 1859, Smith married his sixteen-year-old cousin Levira Annette Clark Smith ( 29 April 1842 Nauvoo, Illinois – 18 December 1888 St. Louis, Missouri ), daughter of Samuel Harrison Smith.

Samuel Eells ( 1810 – 1842 ) was a 19th-Century American philosopher, essayist and orator who founded the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.

Samuel Lewis Southard ( June 9, 1787June 26, 1842 ) was a prominent U. S. statesman of the early 19th century, serving as a U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and the tenth Governor of New Jersey.