Sandy, Jeremiah G.

SANDY

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 20:40:56

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.697

SANDY, JEREMIAH G., farmer, stock dealer and merchant, Union Township, P. O. Sandyville; was born in Owen county, Indiana, August 18, 1829; he was raised a farmer, and came to this county, in 1854; his father, Jeremiah Sandy, was among the early settlers, and entered the land on which the town is located, being the third entry in the county, and the first in the township; the subject of this sketch, engaged in farming, and in 1866, in company with A. R. Henry, Esq., president of the First National Bank, of Indianola, engaged in mercantile pursuits, and continued in business until 1874; in 1879, he again engaged in general merchandizing; he devotes considerable attention to agricultural pursuits, and deals largely in stock, having shipped the present season, over one hundred car loads, in connection with his brothers, J. E. and T. D. Sandy, under the firm name of Sandy Bros.; Mr. Sandy has been a large land owner, and one of the heavy tax- payers of Warren county; he is a stock holder and director in the First National Bank, of Indianola; during the present year, Mr. Sandy has made a division of his real estate among his children; he has been largely identified with the interests and growth of Warren county; as a business man, he has a wide and honorable reputation; he is well qualified for business and social intercourse, prompt, courteous and frank in his manners, and from his natural quickness of perception and his constant habit of mingling with men, he has a clear and accurate knowledge of human nature, and in his intercourse and dealing with his fellowman he has well earned the reputation in which he is held; he married Miss Lodena Stitt, April 14, 1850, she was a native of Morgan county, Indiana; she died October 13, 1863, leaving three children: Emily B. (now Mrs. W. A. Henry), Sarah A. (now Mrs. John A. Shuler), Catherine L. (now Mrs. Darnell); June 3, 1865, he married Miss Mary J. McCormick, who was born in Owen county, Indiana; by this marriage, they have one daughter: Ada Elizabeth; Mr. Sandy lost three childrn by his first marriage: Thomas, Henry and Ephraim.