Brief Life History of Andrew Monroe
When Andrew Monroe Sands was born on 16 June 1914, in Salem, Marion, Illinois, United States, his father, William Andrew Jackson Sands, was 46 and his mother, Ada Florence Farthing, was 40. He married Vera Madonna Smith on 11 July 1940, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. He lived in Salem Township, Marion, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 13 July 1981, in Champaign, Illinois, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Gar Cemetery, Homer, Champaign, Illinois, United States.
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- Monroe Sands in household of William Sands, "United States Census, 1940"
- Monroe Sands, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Monroe Sands, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917 · World War I Contributions
The legislature of Maine dedicated approximately $1 million towards World War I at the time that US involvement began. By the time armistice would be declared in 1918, Maine contributed roughly 35,000 men and $116 million.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English sandes ‘sands’, for someone who lived at or near a sandy place, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Sands in Carlisle (Cumberland) or Sands Cottages in West Hoathly (Sussex). See Sand , of which Sands may sometimes be a plural form or a variant, with excrescent -s. Compare also Sandes and Sandys .
History: Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James Sand(y)s (1622–95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester County, NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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