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'Uncle Sam' is a real person and has descendants in New York
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1:59Now PlayingUncle Sam, long a symbol of the U.S. government, was inspired by a real person — Sam Wilson, a meatpacker from Troy, New York, born in 1766. Helen Painter of Conway, Arkansas, recently gained attention as the oldest known living descendant of Wilson.
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