Sandy, Henry B.

SANDY

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Date: 7/2/2021 at 20:14:21

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.522

HENRY B. SANDY
Henry B. Sandy, one of the representative farmers of Union Township, has spent his entire life in the locality where he now lives, for he was born on the old Sandy homestead in that township, November 22, 1874, a son of J. E. Sandy, whose sketch is given above. During his boyhood and youth he attended the public schools of Milo and Ackworth, and also assisted his father in the labors of the farm, thus acquiring a good practical knowledge of the occupation which he now follows. He was married on the 1st of March1894, to Miss Agnes Reeves, a native of this county, and a daughter of Robert Reeves. They now have two children: Frank J. and Goldie M.
After his marriage Mr. Sandy engaged in farming on rented land for six years and then purchased eighty acres of his present farm on section 33, Union Township. Later he went to North Dakota, where he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land, which he proved up and cultivated for two years. He then sold that place and bought eighty acres adjoining his original tract in this county. He has since remodeled the house and made many other improve­ments upon the place and has added to it until he now has a fine farm of two hundred and twenty acres under excellent cultivation. He raises and feeds considerable stock, usually shipping from two to three carloads of cattle and hogs annually. He is a very wide awake and energetic young farmer and is meeting with excellent success in business affairs. His political support is given the Republican Party.