Samuel Lombard was born as "Santo Lombardo" in Brancaleone, Calabria, Italia on 30 Apr 1886 to Giovanni & Caterina (Finmano) Lombardo. His father owned a butcher shop. When he was around 17 years old he boarded a large steamer ship and immigrated to the United States. In December of 1908 he married Alice Mabel Wool (1887-1951), a native of Essex, VT, eldest child of Lewis/Louis Michael & Kate Mae (Paine) Wool. They met when Samuel was working at a mill in upstate NY near Lake Champlain to raise money to return to Italy, as he had became disenchanted with the United States since so many people were cheating him, etc. Alice was a bookkeeper and soon Samuel decided this new country wasn't so bad after all when he married this sweet, pretty and quiet Vermonter lass. Around World War I Alice converted to the Seventh-day Adventist religion (from either Congregationalism or Methodism). A year later Samuel converted too (from Roman Catholicism). Samuel soon began working as a literature evangelist ("colporteur") within the Seventh-day Adventist church and the family moved down to New Haven, CT area. Samuel mainly sold Italian printed SDA literature to fellow Italian immigrants. After tragedy struck, when one of Samuel & Alice's sons (Bobby) was hit by an automobile and killed, the family soon relocated to South Lancaster, MA so Alice would have a change of scenery and not be so readily reminded of her lost boy. Samuel continued his work for the Seventh-day Adventist church selling Italian literature. He helped so many Italian's convert to the SDA faith in Leominster, MA that they organized into an all-Italian church company there, making Samuel Lombard their minister. Eventually the group formed the Leominster Seventh-day Adventist Church and by the second generation services were entirely held in English, as they still are (2017). Samuel and Alice had the following children: John S., Louis V., Carroll G., Catherine "Kay" R., Robert "Bobby", Alice E. and Marion F. Lombard. Alice M. (Wool) Lombard died from cancer (pancreatic?) on 17 Jun 1951 at the SDA's New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, MA. Samuel died from pneumonia on 1 Dec 1979 in the Clinton [MA] Hospital.