Robert Charles Sands (1799-1832)

He was born into a wealthy banking family at New York and graduated from Columbia College in 1815. He trained for a legal career but gave it up for a literary life. Remembered as, "a splendid fellow," he read Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and Portuguese. He was best known for his short stories and a poem he co-wrote called "Yamoyden". He is considered as one of "The Knickerbocker Group" along with the likes of James Kirke Paulding and Washington Irving etc. He died unmarried aged 33 at which time he was one of the editors of the Commercial Advertiser. His friend Gulian C. Verplanck wrote an account of his brief life. He was a brother-in-law of Nathaniel Prime.