Isaac Sandford


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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Sandford offers more than first meets the eye". Terre Haute Tribune-Star. 17 January 2016.
  2. ^ "The Treesearcher". Southwest Kansas Genealogical Society. April 28, 1976 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "The Isaac Sandford Family, 1796-1975". Lee's Letter Shop. April 27, 1975 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Foster Letter – Past Voices: Letters Home".
  5. ^ "Capt. Isaac Sandford | Northern Illinois University Digital Library". digital.lib.niu.edu.
  6. ^ "The Black Hawk War, by Frank E. Stevens, a Project Gutenberg eBook". www.gutenberg.org.
  7. ^ "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". W. Le Baron, Jr. April 28, 1879 – via Google Books.