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. "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.