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. 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

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to Ezekiel Sandford and Hannah Halsey Sandford. In 1819, he married Belinda Foster, daughter of Luke and Esther Hubbell Foster. Sandford eventually moved to

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, where his sister was married to a prominent banker, and then settled in

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. Sandford was a member of the

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. He was involved in establishing

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. A letter to him survives.

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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).

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