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Sands, Joshua Ratoon

naval officer, was born May 15, 1795, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1812 he became a midshipman; lieutenant in 1818; commander in 1840; captain in 1854; and commodore on the retired list in 1862.

Sands, Robert Charles

journalist, author, poet, was born May 11, 1799, in Flatbush, L. I. He was a journalist and verse-writer of New York city who wrote a Life of Paul Jones; The Talisman; and co-author with Eastburn of the once noted poem Yamoyden. He died in December, 1832, in Hoboken, N. J.

Sanford, David

clergyman, was born Dec. 11, 1737, in Milford, Conn. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Medway, Mass., where he passed the remainder of his life, with the exception of a brief period, during which he served as a chaplain in the revolutionary army. He early resisted the oppression of Great Britain, and relinquished his salary for a time. He died April 7, 1810, in Medford, Mass.

Sanford, Ezekiel

author, was born in 1796 in Ridgefield, Conn. he was the author of A History of the United States Before the Revolution; and a novel entitled The Humors on Utopia. He died in 1822 in Columbia, S. C.

Sanford, Henry C

lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 11, 1833, in Maine. This prominent lawyer of Akron, Ohio, has been prosecuting attorney of his city and county; and for two terms has served as a member of the Ohio state legislature.

Sanford, James T

agriculturist, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1823 to 1825. Having acquired a large property in the pursuits of agriculture, he appropriated a part of his wealth to the establishment of Jackson college. He died about 1880.

Sanford, Jonah

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1789 in Cornwall, Vt. In 1829 and 1830 he represented his county in the New York state legislature; and was a representative in congress to fill a vacancy in 1830- 31. He was one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas. He died Dec. 25, 1867, in Hopkinton.

Sanford, Laura G

historian. She is the author of a History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, which is considered one of the most meritorious local histories of that state.

Sanford, Stephen

manufacturer, congressman, was born May 26, 1826, in Amsterdam, N. Y. The Amsterdam Reservoir company, by which a thousand acres have been flooded with the waters of the Chuctanunda creek, supplying an immense water power for his own and other manufactories, originated with him, and has been managed by him as president. He also founded and became president of the Amsterdam city national bank. He was a representative from New York to the forty-first congress.

Sanford, Thaddeus

journalist, banker, was born in 1791 in Connecticut.

In 1828 he became the editor and proprietor of the Mobile Register. He continued to conduct that journal, with the exception of the period between 1837 and 1841, for twenty-six years. In 1833 he was elected president of the bank of Mobile, and in 1853 he was appointed collector of the port, holding the office throughout Buchanan's administration. He died April 30, 1867, in Mobile, Ala.

Sanger, George Partridge

lawyer, journalist, was born Nov. 27, 1819, in Dover, Mass. He was for many years the editor of The American Almanac, and also edited the Boston Law Reporter. He edited, with George Minot, the United States Statutes at Large, Treaties, Proclamations, etc.; and in 1862-63, with John G. Locke, revised and consolidated the city ordinances of Boston, Mass., and collated the state municipal laws. He died July 3, 1890, in Swampscott, Mass.