Isaac Sandford Explained
Isaac Sandford (c. 1796 - November 21, 1853) was a Brigadier General, settler, farmer, and railroad contractor in the United States. He fought in the Black Hawk War.[1] He worked as a contractor for the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad. He acquired some 12,000 acres in Indiana and Illinois.[1]
He was born in Bridgehampton, New York to Ezekiel Sandford and Hannah Halsey Sandford.[2]
In 1819, he married Belinda Foster, daughter of Luke and Esther Hubbell Foster. Sandford eventually moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his sister was married to a prominent banker, and then settled in Vermilion, Illinois.[3] [1] Sandford was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He was involved in establishing Sandford, Indiana.[1] A letter to him survives.[4] Northern Illinois University has a photograph of him from the 1903 book in the Black Hawk War by Frank E. Stevens.[5] [6]
His children included Harriet Sandford (died 1862).[7]
Notes and References
- Web site: Sandford offers more than first meets the eye. Terre Haute Tribune-Star. 17 January 2016 .
- Web site: The Treesearcher. April 28, 1976. Southwest Kansas Genealogical Society. Google Books.
- Web site: The Isaac Sandford Family, 1796-1975. April 27, 1975. Lee's Letter Shop. Google Books.
- Web site: Foster Letter – Past Voices: Letters Home.
- Web site: Capt. Isaac Sandford | Northern Illinois University Digital Library. digital.lib.niu.edu.
- Web site: The Black Hawk War, by Frank E. Stevens, a Project Gutenberg eBook. www.gutenberg.org.
- Web site: The History of Edgar County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County--its Cities, Towns, &c: Directory of Its Tax-payers; War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map of Edgar County; History of Illinois, Illustrated; History of the Northwest, Illustrated; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c., &c. Illustrated. April 28, 1879. W. Le Baron, Jr.. Google Books.
