Samuel Stevens Sands I

Samuel Stevens Sands (November 18, 1827 – July 24, 1892) was an American banker who served as the head of S.S. Sands & Co. Among his siblings was brother Austin Ledyard Sands Jr. 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. She then became the mother of banker John Austin Stevens and surgeon Alexander Hodgdon Stevens.

He was a graduate of the University of the City of New York with the Class of 1846. also a merchant, and Elizabeth (née Van Buren) Aymar. 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. the daughter of William H. Akin. 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. Eliza Louise Sands (1858–1934), who was involved in the Social Service Committee of the Volunteer Hospital and did not marry. Mary Emily Sands (1859–1863), who died young. a social leader in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island, who did not marry. Charles Edward Sands (1865–1945), an Olympic tennis player who married Sarah Wilson Simonton in 1920. Robert Cornell Sands (1867–1932), who did not marry. Harold Cater Sands (1869–1881), who also died young. who married Theodore Augustus Havemeyer Jr. (1868–1936), son of Theodore Havemeyer, in 1893.

He died on July 26, 1892, at his country home, "Elmhurst", near New Hamburg, New York. Sands was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, in Brooklyn. and George Winthrop Sands, who was married to Tayo Newton, daughter of Dr. B. Newton of New York, in 1905.