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. He worked as a contractor for the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad. He acquired some 12,000 acres in Indiana and Illinois.

He was born in Bridgehampton, New York to Ezekiel Sandford and Hannah Halsey Sandford.

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. Sandford was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

He was involved in establishing Sandford, Indiana. A letter to him survives. Northern Illinois University has a photograph of him from the 1903 book in the Black Hawk War by Frank E. Stevens.

His children included Harriet Sandford (died 1862).

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "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.