Samuel was born in Weatherford, Texas in 1889. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas in 1911 where he was a captain of cadets. He was an instructor of animal husbandry at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro in 1914. About 1914 he coached the championship livestock judging team at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. After receiving a Masters degree in animal husbandry at the University of Illinois, Urbana, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington and worked there for 5 years. He wrote the first USDA bulletin on the production of baby beef and worked on control of Texas cattle fever in Guatemala. In 1919 he joined the Chicago-based Morris Packing Company as a cattle buyer. He later transferred to the Standard Rendering Company in Kansas City, a Morris subsidiary. As general executive administrator of Morris's animal byproducts branches in Chicago, Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, Little Rock and Minneapolis, he earned an Army-Navy E for efficiency in the production of glycerides and the collection of kitchen fats during World War II. He worked for the Morris company 31 years before retiring in 1950. For 26 years he raised purebred Shorthorn cattle and Quarter Horses at his beloved farm Three Oaks in Liberty, Missouri. He was a serious, intelligent and steadfast man. He understood the importance of a healthy diet before it became a fad and also realized the threat that cigarette smoking posed, promising his children $100 if they reach 18 years of age without smoking. A strict but loving father and a much-loved grandfather with a twinkle in his eye.
Samuel was born in Weatherford, Texas in 1889. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas in 1911 where he was a captain of cadets. He was an instructor of animal husbandry at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro in 1914. About 1914 he coached the championship livestock judging team at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. After receiving a Masters degree in animal husbandry at the University of Illinois, Urbana, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington and worked there for 5 years. He wrote the first USDA bulletin on the production of baby beef and worked on control of Texas cattle fever in Guatemala. In 1919 he joined the Chicago-based Morris Packing Company as a cattle buyer. He later transferred to the Standard Rendering Company in Kansas City, a Morris subsidiary. As general executive administrator of Morris's animal byproducts branches in Chicago, Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, Little Rock and Minneapolis, he earned an Army-Navy E for efficiency in the production of glycerides and the collection of kitchen fats during World War II. He worked for the Morris company 31 years before retiring in 1950. For 26 years he raised purebred Shorthorn cattle and Quarter Horses at his beloved farm Three Oaks in Liberty, Missouri. He was a serious, intelligent and steadfast man. He understood the importance of a healthy diet before it became a fad and also realized the threat that cigarette smoking posed, promising his children $100 if they reach 18 years of age without smoking. A strict but loving father and a much-loved grandfather with a twinkle in his eye.
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