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Famous people · Sandisfield
4 famous people call Sandisfield their birthplace
Articles in 5 languages make the American politician Charles S. May the best known. The president of Brown university Barnas Sears ranks second, ahead of John Mills. John Mills (1787) and Mary Sears McHenry (1834) mark the two ends of the list. The biggest group are leaders: 4.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Charles S. May
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1787
John Mills
Youngest
1834
Mary Sears McHenry
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Sandisfield
All three are leaders.
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Through the years
When Sandisfield’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1830s, with 2 people born in that decade.
Politics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sandisfield
1 more, best known first.
Mary Sears McHenry
1834–1912American relief worker; national president, Woman's Relief Corps
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A chosen home
Also called Sandisfield home
One more notable person made the town home: Benjamin Luxon.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to New Marlborough, with 6.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sandisfield and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (6)
- Barnas Sears: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Sears McHenry: Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lorrin A. Cooke: William Harrison Taylor, Putnam, Connecticut, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Easton Mills: unnone, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander Viets Griswold Allen: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barnabas Bidwell: John Brewster, Jr., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons