Ferdinand Sands

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

Early life and career Sands was born on May 26, 1806, in New York City.

He was a grandson of Mathias Kampfel and Comfort Sands, the merchant, banker and Continental Congressman.

Sands graduated from Columbia College in 1824 and practiced as an attorney in New York. Eliza Bard (wife of Rufus King Delafield), 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). Together, they were the parents of five sons,

Joseph Sands (1830–1879), who married Charlotte Brion Foulke, daughter of Joseph Foulke, in 1855. who married Letitia Campbell, daughter of John Campbell, in 1857. who married Ella Louise Faye, daughter of Thomas Faye, in 1893. who married Miriam Maas.

His wife died in New York on January 28, 1838, and Sands died of consumption in New York on December 7, 1839. who married T.J. Oakley Rhinelander; and John Augustus Sands (1865–1957), who married Eleanor Lydell Livingston.