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epaulets presented him by the citizens of Brook- lyn, N.Y., and the gold snuff-box inlaid with diamonds, the gift of Queen Victoria in 1851, to the Historical society of Brooklyn. He was senior officer of the navy on the retired list at the time of his death, which occurred in Balti- more, Mi., Oct. 2, 1883.

SANDS, Robert Charles, author, was born in Flatbush, Long Island, N.Y., May 11, 1799; son of Comfort and Cornelia (Lott) Sands. His father, a well-known merchant and patriot of New York city, was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1777, and a member of the state assembly for several years. Robert was grad- uated from Columbia college, A.B.. 1815, A.M., 1818, and engaged in literature and the study of law. He had edited two periodicals while in college; contributed a series of essays to the Daily Advertiser, and with James Wallis East- burn, he wrote " Yamoyden," a poem (1820). He was admitted to the bar in 1820, declined the professorship of belles lettres in Dickinson col- lege, and resumed his literary work. He was one of the founders of the St. Tammany Mag- azine, 1823-24; issued the Atlantic Magazine in 1824. and when it was changed to the New York Review in 1825, he joined with William Cullen Bryant in its conduct. In 1827 he became an editor of the Commercial Advertiser, and remained as such till his death. He publislied The Talis- man, which appeared annually, 1828-30, in which he was joined by William Cullen Bryant and Gulian C. Verplanck, and which was re-publisbed under the title Miscellanies. He contributed the humorous introduction to " Tales of Glauber Spa" (2 vols., 1832), and is the author of: Life and Correspondence of Paul Jones (1831), His works were edited with a memoir by Gulian C. Yerplanck (2 vols., 1834). He died in Hoboken, N.J.. Dec. 17. 1832.

SANFORD, Edward, poet, was born in Albany, N.Y., July 8, 1805; son of the Hon. Nathan San- ford (q.v.). He was graduated at Union college, A,B., 1824, A.M., 1827, and studied law, but abandoned it for journalism. He edited a Brookl3'n paper; was employed on the New York Standard; the New York Times. 1836-37, and was an associate editor of the Globe at Washing- ton, D.C., 1837-38. He was appointed assistant naval officer at the port of New York in 1838; was secretary to the commission appointed to restore the duties on goods destroyed by the great fire of 1835, and a member of the state senate in 1843. He contributed stories and poems to the leading New York periodicals. Among his well known poems are: To Black Hawk; To a Mos- quito; TJie Loves of the Shell-Fishes, and a Charcoal Sketch of Pot-Pie Palmer. He died in Gowanda, N,Y., Aug, 28, 1876.

SANFORD, Edward Terry, lawyer, was born in Knoxville. Teun., July 23, 1865; son of Edward Jackson and Emma (Chavannes) Sanford; grand- son of John W. and Altha (Fanton) Sanford and of Adrien and Anna (Francillon) Chavannes. and a descendant of Thomas Sanford, who came to America in 1631 with the John Winthrop colony. He was graduated from the University of Ten- nessee, A.B, and Ph. B., 1883; from Harvard college, A.B., 1885 (A.M., 1889), and from Har- vard Law school, LL.B,, 1889. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar, and began practice in Knoxville in 1889, where he was married, Jan. 6, 1891, to Lutie Mallory, daughter of William Wal- lace and Ella (Conelly) Woodruff of Knoxville, Tennessee, He was president of the University of Tennessee Alumni association, 1892-93; was elected a trustee of the university, 1897, and in 1899, chairman of the finance committee of the board of trustees, and was appointed lecturer in the university law school, 1898, He also served as a vice-president of the Tennessee Bar associa- tion, 1896-97 and 1901-02, and of the American Bar association, 1899-1900; was elected a trustee of East Tennessee Female institute, 1900, and ap- pointed a charter member of Knoxville hospital, 1899. He is the author of: Blount College and the University of Tennessee, centennial address (1894); The Constitutional Cortvention of Ten- nessee of 1706, for the Proceedings of the Tennes- see Bar association (1896); Biographical List of the Trustees of Blount College, East Tennessee College, East Tennessee University and Univer- sity of Tennessee (1898),

SANFORD, Henry Shelton, diplomatist, was born in AVoodbury, Conn., June 15, 1823; son of

Nehemiah C. and (Shelton) Sanford. He

attended Washington (Trinity) college and was graduated from Heidelberg university; was at- tache to the U.S. embassy at St. Petersburg, 1847- 48; was appointed acting secretary of the U.S. legation at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1848; secre- tary of the U.S. legation, Paris. 1849-53, and U.S. charge d' affaires at Paris, 1853-54, wlien he re- signed. He was U.S. minister to Belgium, 1861- 69; and for a time, during the war, he had super- vision of the secret service in Europe, with head- quarters at London and Paris, and negotiated and signed the Scheldt treaty with Belgium, attended the first consular convention, and a trade mark and naturalization convention. In 1869 he was appointed U.S. minister to Spain, but the senate adjourned without confirming the nomination. He was one of the founders of the International African association, representing the English speaking races on its executive committee, and as its minister plenipotentiary at Washington, D.C., he secured recognition of its flag as that of the Independent State of the Congo in April, 1884.