"Blaine, ... Margaret Jane; m William Sample, son of David Sample of the Westmoreland county bar; learned printing in Mr. Snowden's office at Greensburg; and at the age of nineteen went to Washington, where he established, in 1808, the Washington Reporter; in 1819 he was elected prothonotary of the county, and later removed to the west; a daughter, Mrs. Eliza Ewing Sample Malcolm, resides in Lee county, Iowa."
