Samuel Stevens Sands

Samuel Stevens Sands
Born	(1827-11-18)November 18, 1827 New York City, US
Died	July 24, 1892(1892-07-24) (aged 64) New Hamburg, New York, US
Alma mater	University of the City of New York
Occupation	President of S.S. Sands & Co.
Spouses	Eliza Dickson Aymar ​ ​ (m. 1849; died 1850)​ Mary Ellis Aymar ​ ​ (m. 1852; died 1879)​
Children	11, including Charles and Benjamin
Relatives	John Austin Stevens (uncle) Alexander Hodgdon Stevens (uncle)

Samuel Stevens Sands (November 18, 1827 – July 24, 1892) was an American banker who served as the head of S.S. Sands & Co.^[1]

Early life

Sands was born at 112 Chambers Street in New York City on November 18, 1827.^[2] He was a son of Austin Ledyard Sands, a merchant in New York City,^[3] and Anne Maria (née Hodge) Sands.^[4] Among his siblings was brother Austin Ledyard Sands Jr.^[3]

His paternal grandparents were Richardson Sands and Lucretia (née Ledyard) Sands.^[5] After his grandfather's death, his grandmother married Ebenezer Stevens (1751–1823), a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a Major General in the New York State Militia, and a merchant.^[3] She then became the mother of banker John Austin Stevens and surgeon Alexander Hodgdon Stevens.^[6]

He was a graduate of the University of the City of New York with the Class of 1846.^[2]

Career

In 1854, he became a member of the New York Stock Exchange.^[1] Sands was a banker and broker in partnership with William Henry Reese. He acted as broker for a number of important financial interests, including the Astor family. For many years, Sands was the president of S.S. Sands & Co.^[1] He had several partners throughout his career, including his brother, William Richardson Sands, his brother-in-law, Edmund Brandt Aymar, William Henry Reese, and his sons Samuel Jr. and Charles.^[2]

Towards the end of his career, he became involved in the railroad business, financing Boston and New York Air-Line Railroad, the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Railway, the Milwaukee Railroad, the Lakeshore and Western Railway and the Colorado Midland Railway.^[1]

Country home

In 1865, Sands built "Elmhurst" at New Hamburg, New York, a small hamlet along the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York.

Personal life

On June 14, 1849, Sands was married to Eliza Dickson Aymar, a daughter of Benjamin Aymar,^[7] also a merchant, and Elizabeth (née Van Buren) Aymar.^[3] After her death in 1850, he married her sister, Mary Ellis Aymar on April 15, 1852.^[2] Their elder sister was married to John D. Van Buren Jr., the New York State Engineer and Surveyor. After his marriage he lived at 80 Fifth Avenue in New York City and, later, at 385 Fifth Avenue.^[2] Together, they were the parents of:^[2]

• Benjamin Aymar Sands (1853–1917), who married Amy Kirby Akin,^[8] the daughter of William H. Akin.^[2]
• Ledyard Sands (1854–1897), who married Sarah F. Thornton and died in Sri Lanka.^[2]
• Samuel Stevens Sands Jr. (1856–1889),^[9] who married Anne Harriman (1861–1940), the daughter of banker Oliver Harriman and Laura (née Low) Harriman. He died from a fall during a hunt at Meadow Brook Golf Club in 1889.^[9] After his death, his widow remarried first to Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr., and after his death, William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1903.^[10]
• Eliza Louise Sands (1858–1934), who was involved in the Social Service Committee of the Volunteer Hospital and did not marry.^[11][12]
• Mary Emily Sands (1859–1863), who died young.^[2]
• William Henry Sands (1861–1920), who married Frances Augusta Lorillard (August 8, 1864 – January 30, 1931), daughter of Jacob Lorillard and granddaughter of Pierre Lorillard III.
• Anna Sands (1864–1932),^[13][14][15] a social leader in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island, who did not marry.^[16]
• Charles Edward Sands (1865–1945),^[17] an Olympic tennis player who married Sarah Wilson Simonton in 1920.^[18]
• Robert Cornell Sands (1867–1932), who did not marry.^[19]
• Harold Cater Sands (1869–1881), who also died young.^[2]
• Katharine Aymar Sands (1871–1951),^[20][21] who married Theodore Augustus Havemeyer Jr. (1868–1936),^[22] son of Theodore Havemeyer, in 1893.^[23]

He died on July 26, 1892, at his country home, "Elmhurst", near New Hamburg, New York.^[1] Sands was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, in Brooklyn.^[2]

Descendants

Through his son Samuel Jr., he was a grandfather of Samuel Stevens Sands III, who married Gertrude Sheldon, daughter of George R. Sheldon, in 1910,^[24] and George Winthrop Sands,^[25] who was married to Tayo Newton, daughter of Dr. B. Newton of New York, in 1905.^[26]

References

1. "Samuel Stevens Sands" (PDF). The New York Times. July 26, 1892. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
2. Sands, Benjamin Aymar (1916). The Direct Forefathers and All the Descendants of Richardson Sands: Together with the Genealogies of My Direct Maternal Ancestors. p. 74. ISBN 9780598997227. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
3. Scoville, Joseph Alfred (1866). The Old Merchants of New York City. Carleton. p. 76. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
4. Benjamin Aymar Sands (1916). The direct forefathers and all the descendants of Richardson Sands. ISBN 0-559-48105-5.
5. Stevens, Eugene Rolaz; Bacon, William Plumb (1914). Erasmus Stevens and his descendants. Tobias A. Wright. p. 16. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
6. Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Stevens, Ebenezer" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.)
7. Stevens, John Austin; DeCosta, Benjamin Franklin; Johnston, Henry Phelps; Lamb, Martha Joanna; Pond, Nathan Gillett (1886). The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries. A. S. Barnes. p. 12. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
8. Miller, Tom (March 24, 2016). "The 1903 Benj. A. Sands Mansion -- No. 11 East 84th Street". Daytonian in Manhattan. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
9. "Obituary – Sands". The New York Times. March 24, 1889. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
10. "W. K. Vanderbilt's Coming Marriage – Mrs. Lewis Morris Rutherfurd the Prospective Bride. The Wedding Arranged to Take Place April 29 at the Home of Secretary White of the American Embassy in London". The New York Times. April 22, 1903. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
11. "Miss E. Louise Sands". The New York Times. May 6, 1934. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
12. Adams, Henry; Levenson, Jacob C.; Samuels, Ernest; Vandersee, Charles (1982). The Letters of Henry Adams. Harvard University Press. p. 165. ISBN 9780674526860. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
13. "Miss Anna Sands, Social Leader, Dies – Long Prominent in This City and Newport – A Tennis and Golf Enthusiast – Succumbs After Operation – Was a Stockholder of the Newport Casino and of the Country Club There, Where She Owned Estate". The New York Times. April 10, 1932. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
14. "Will of Anna Sands Probated". The New York Times. August 16, 1932. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
15. "Miss Sands Left – Newport Estate, Long in the Family, Must Be Sold". The New York Times. July 28, 1932. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
16. "$267,511 Estate Left by Miss Anna Sands – Maid of New York Social Leader Gets $20,000 – McAlpin Holding Put at $651,618". The New York Times. March 16, 1933. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
17. "Charles E. Sands – Holder of Many Amateur Court Tennis Trophies Is Dead". The New York Times. August 12, 1945. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
18. "Weds Charles E. Sands – Miss Sarah W. Simonton of Cincinnati Married in Grace Church". The New York Times. July 23, 1920. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
19. "Robert C. Sands, Clubman, Dies at 64 – President of The Strollers for Many Years Was a Graduate of Columbia". The New York Times. July 11, 1932. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
20. "Mrs. T. A. Havemeyer". The New York Times. January 11, 1951. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
21. "The Opulent Eye auction, Christie's New York,18 November 2014". HALI. November 11, 2014. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
22. "T. A. Havemeyer, 67, Dies in Brookville – Former Vice President of the Family Sugar Firm Was a Nephew of Organizer, Leader in Horticulture – Honorary President of New York Society Had Been Its Active Head for Many Years". The New York Times. July 31, 1936. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
23. "Havemeyer -- Sands". The New York Times. December 15, 1893. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
24. "S. Stevens Sands Killed Under Auto – Speeding to His Wife, as Was His Brother, Who Met the Same Fate in France". The New York Times. July 3, 1913. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
25. "London Hears of Accident – Reported at First Victim Was W.K. Vanderbilt". The New York Times. July 30, 1908. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
26. Times, Special To The New York (December 19, 1908). "Sands Estate Only $2,000 – Little Left by Son of Mrs. W.K. Vanderbilt, Killed in Auto Wreck". The New York Times. Retrieved July 19, 2017.

External links

• Photograph of his daughter, Anna Sands, in 1913 at the Library of Congress