Henry Shelton Sanford (1823 - 1891)

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Biography

Henry was an American diplomat and United States Ambassador to Belgium (1861-1891). He also founded Sanford, Florida, and successfully petitioned the United States to recognize King Leopold II of Belgium's claim to the Congo Basin, eventually known as the Congo Free State. ^[1]

Henry Shelton Sanford (1823-1891) was the only son of American industrialist Nehemiah Curtis Sanford (1792-1841) and Nancy Bateman Shelton (1800-1880). He was a direct descendant of Connecticut Governor Thomas Welles.

In 1864, he married Gertrude Ellen Dupuy (1841-1902) in Paris, France, and they had seven children:

1. Henry Shelton Sanford Jr.,
2. Gertrude Ellen Dupuy Sanford,
3. Frida Dolores Sanford,
4. Ethel Sanford (Gertrude Sanford Legendre's mother),
5. Helen Carola "Cara" Nancy Sanford,
6. Leopold Curtis Sanford, and
7. Edwynne Emmeline Wilhelmina McKinnon Sanford.

Sources

1. ↑ College of Charleston, Pascal Library Special Collections; Gertrude Sanford Legendre Papers.

• "Obituary of Henry Shelton Sanford" (PDF). The New York Times. May 23, 1891. Retrieved August 21, 2010.

• Wikipedia: Henry Shelton Sanford

• U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2012 Lehi, UT, USA Record Collection 60525 Note: Find a Grave. Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

• 1850 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2009 Lehi, UT, USA Record Collection 8054 Note: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.