Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Henry S. Sanford
Diplomat/City Founder
Centurion, 1855–1891
J. Howard Wainwright
Woodbury, Connecticut
Healing Springs, Virginia
Age thirty-one
Shelton, Connecticut
Century Memorial
Henry Shelton Sanford was for more years than ordinarily fall to the lot of American citizens engaged in the diplomatic service of the United States.
Beginning as Secretary of Legation under Ralph I. Ingersoll at St. Petersburg, he served afterwards at Frankfort under Andrew J. Donelson, and at Paris under John Y. Mason. From 1861 to 1869 he was United States Minister to Belgium, and rendered his Government valuable service during the war. He was one of the founders of the Independent State of the Congo, and United States delegate to the Berlin Congo Conference in 1885, which opened to free trade and neutrality the entire State which includes one million square miles with a population of fifty million people, and was afterwards a delegate to the Brussels Anti-Slavery Congress.
Of late years he had given much time to the development of the City of Sanford, in Florida, of which he was the founder.
Henry E. Howland
1892 Century Association Yearbook
