Ferdinand Sands

Ferdinand Sands (May 26, 1806 – December 7, 1839) was an American lawyer and heir.

Ferdinand Sands
Portrait of Sands and his son, Joseph, by Nathaniel Rogers
Born	(1806-05-26)May 26, 1806 New York City, U.S.
Died	December 7, 1839(1839-12-07) (aged 33) New York City, U.S.
Education	Columbia College
Spouse(s)	Susan Bard ​ ( m. 1830; died 1838)
Children	5
Parent(s)	Joseph Sands Maria Theresa Kampfel Sands
Relatives	Robert Charles Sands (uncle) Comfort Sands (grandfather) Edith Cruger Sands Rhinelander (granddaughter) Edward Prime (cousin)

Early life and career

Sands was born on May 26, 1806, in New York City.[1] He was the son of Joseph Sands (1772–1825), a banker with Prime, Ward & King, and Maria Theresa (née Kampfel) Sands (1782–1846). Among his family members was his paternal half-uncle Robert Charles Sands, a noted poet.[2]

He was a grandson of Mathias Kampfel and Comfort Sands,[3][4] the merchant, banker and Continental Congressman.[5] His paternal aunt, Cornelia Sands, was the wife of his father's banking partner, Nathaniel Prime.[5]

Sands graduated from Columbia College in 1824 and practiced as an attorney in New York.[6]

Personal life

On March 15, 1830, Sands was married to Susan Bard (1812–1838) of Hyde Park, New York. Susan was the daughter of Catherine (née Cruger) Bard and William Bard, founder and first president of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company. Among her siblings were Anne Bard (wife of his first cousin, Edward Prime),[7] Eliza Bard (wife of Rufus King Delafield),[8] and John Bard (founder of Bard College with his wife, Margaret Taylor Johnston, daughter of merchant John Johnston and sister of John Taylor Johnston, founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).[6] Together, they were the parents of five sons,[1] including:[9]

• Joseph Sands (1830–1879), who married Charlotte Brion Foulke, daughter of Joseph Foulke, in 1855.[6]
• William Ferdinand Sands (1832–1857), who died unmarried.[6]
• Charles Edwin Sands (1835–1888),[10] who married Letitia Campbell, daughter of John Campbell,[11] in 1857.[6]
• Louis Joseph Sands (1836–1919),[12] who married Ella Louise Faye, daughter of Thomas Faye, in 1893.[6]
• Arthur Sands (b. 1837),[13] who married Miriam Maas.[6]

Sands and his eldest son Joseph had a miniature portrait of them painted by Nathaniel Rogers, which today is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

His wife died in New York on January 28, 1838, and Sands who died of consumption in New York on December 7, 1839.[1] After the death of Ferdinand and his wife Susan, their five boys were raised by Susan's parents, Catherine Cruger Bard and William Bard.[13]

Descendants

Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Ferdinand Sands (1858–1904), who married Mary Collander; Letitia Lee Sands (1871–1949), who married Maturin Livingston Delafield; Edith Cruger Sands (1874–1923),[14] who married T.J. Oakley Rhinelander;[15] and John Augustus Sands (1865–1957), who married Eleanor Lydell Livingston.[16][17]

References

1. Johnson, Dale T. (1990). American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 193. ISBN 9780870995972. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
2. Reynolds, Emily (January 14, 2011). "Guide to the Sands family papers ARC.096". dlib.nyu.edu. Brooklyn Historical Society. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
3. Davenport, Charles Benedict (1919). Naval Officers; Their Heredity and Development. Carnegie Institution of Washington. p. 195. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
4. Schnurmann, Claudia (2018). A Sea of Love: The Atlantic Correspondence of Francis and Mathilde Lieber, 1839–1845. BRILL. p. 812. ISBN 9789004344259. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
5. Bergen, Tunis Garret (1915). Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 833. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
6. Helffenstein, Abraham Ernest (1911). Pierre Fauconnier and His Descendants: With Some Account of the Allied Valleaux. Press of S. H. Burbank & Company. p. 95. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
7. Hall, Henry (1895). America's Successful Men of Affairs: The city of New York. New York Tribune. p. 527. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
8. "RICHARD DELAFIELD, BANKER, DIES AT 76; Chairman of Board of National Park Bank Succumbs at Tuxedo After Long Illness. MEMBER OF NOTED FAMILY He Was President of Bank for 22 Years and Official or Director of Other Corporations" (PDF). The New York Times. 5 August 1930. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
9. Island, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Rhode (1908). The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The Society. p. 339. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
10. "DIED. SANDS". The New York Times. 24 April 1888. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
11. Register of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York. The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York. 1901. p. 53. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
12. "DIED. SANDS" (PDF). The New York Times. 16 April 1919. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
13. "Diary of Arthur Sandys :: Bard College". www.hrvh.org. Hudson River Valley Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
14. "MRS. T.J.O. RHINELANDER; Member of Old New York Family Dies at Her Sister's Country Home" (PDF). The New York Times. August 6, 1923. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
15. "WEDDING OF MISS EDITH C. SANDS.; Married to T.J. Oakley Rhinelander in Trinity Chapel" (PDF). The New York Times. June 7, 1894. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
16. Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M. (2009). Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 122. ISBN 9780807894170. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
17. Prioleau, Horry Frost; Manigault, Edward Lining (2010). Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 1, Bacot - Dupont. p. 441. ISBN 9780557242634. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

External links

• Ferdinand Sands and his Son Joseph at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.