Talk:Samuel Wilson

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Uncle Sam[edit]

according to the Uncle Sam page, the origin of the figure is unknown, so i added alleged. however, i have no clue if this page is right, or the uncle sam one

also, it should be added why he is the source

I added the ref. to the book "Uncle Sam" according to which there seems to be no proof for this. Of course, it's dated 1908. Kwikwag (talk) 00:10, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Monument[edit]

(Random Person) I can take an original photograph of his monumnet in Arlington, MA if anyone is interested.(Posted 15 June 2007 by 65.78.2.251)

An article on the monument, subsequently created at Uncle Sam Memorial Statue, includes photographs, which were also added to the current article. Hertz1888 (talk) 16:50, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It may be of interest that the Monument is there do to the efforts of a group of young men who where part of the Arlington JAYCEES and money was raise by the sale of a Special Commemorative Coin, minted in both Bronze and Sterling Silver,both the medal and the Statue were designed by Theodore Barbarossa a member of the International Institute of Arts and Letters as well as being a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society The Statue is over 16 Ft tall and is made of bronze and Indiana Limestone,it was erected in 1975 aand is recognized as a Historic Monument by The Congress of The United States.71.162.117.27 (talk) 15:21, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Proposal[edit]

I have posted a set of reasons for the merge here: Talk:Uncle_Sam#Merge_Proposal --Thespian 10:20, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Decendents[edit]

I'm curious to see if he has any living decendents. If you have any information on that please post it on here.

(Citizen of Earth) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.174.205.89 (talk) 02:53, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming all his four kids survived to have children of their own, and an average of 3 kids for the 12 generations (fairly conservative for 1800s and most of the 1900s even factoring in infant mortality, as you have TFR of around 7 in the early 1800s), you would expect something like 2m descendants. Obviously knowing the first couple of generations fate would get a much better estimate, but it is going to be a very large number after that many generations. --86.161.73.164 (talk) 00:37, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know of at least 4 living descendants (myself as well as my mother, grandmother, and uncle). I'll be happy to talk more about it privately. Mantrius (talk) 21:13, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there are descendants. We're not, like, as numerous as the stars in the heavens or anything like that, but we're around. :-) Nothing very special about us; to the best of my knowledge none of us are industrial meat packers. 24.166.211.194 (talk) 06:31, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Job title[edit]

meat inspector, whatever that is, apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYEfHC5AiYY — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.83.159.73 (talk) 23:02, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]