Sampson was an American automobile marque produced by the Alden Sampson Division of the United States Motor Corporation in Detroit, Michigan. The Sampson name originated with the Alden Sampson Manufacturing Company of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, which had built trucks under that name. In 1911 the company was acquired by Benjamin Briscoe's United States Motor Company. Briscoe decided to revive the Sampson name for a passenger car rather than restrict it to…