Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

WILLIAM H. H. SANDUSKY was born October 22, 1837, in New Geneva, Fayette Co.,
Penn., and is the only child of James and Nancy (Dunum) Sandusky, who were 
born and reared in Fayette County, Penn.  James Sandusky was a son of Jacob 
Sandusky, who married Sallie Way.  The were natives of Washington County, 
Ky., and Manchester, Penn., respectively.  Jacob was by occupation a 
stonecutter and farmer; was in the Indian wars in Kentucky, Ohio and 
Indiana; was a brother of Gen. Sandusky and a son of Nathaniel Sandusky, 
who came from Poland with nine children (original name Sowdosko); he was 
president of a fur-trading company.  Subject's great-grandfather settled 
in Sandusky City, Ohio, while a fur-trader.  The mother of our subject was 
the daughter of Abraham Dunum, a son of Col. Dunum, of Revolutionary fame.  
William H. H. Sandusky, at the age of ten, commenced steam-boating on the 
Monongahela River.  In 1848, he attended bar for his uncle, in the fall of 
1848, went to New Orleans; thence to Louisville, St. Louis and to Boonville, 
Mo., from which place he started across the plains with an ox-team to Salt 
Lake City.  At Ogden, in the winter of 1849-50, he joined the Hudson Bay 
Fur Company.  In the spring of 1850, he went to Fort Hall, and remained 
there until 1851; thence to American Falls on Snake River; thence to Salmon 
River, where the summer was spent in trading.  While there he crried the 
private mail to Oregon City.  He spent the winter in Salt Lake City, and in 
1852, he made the first whisky in the Mormon city.  August 4, 1854, he was 
wagon master when Albert Sidney Johnson crossed Jordan River into Salt Lake 
City.  In 1854 he returned to the States; first to St. Louis and then to 
Cairo.  While at Cairo, he transferred the government mail for one year.  
Then engaged in steamboating until the war broke out, when he engaged in 
steamboating for the government; was a scout for Gen. Lew Wallace; was 
pilot of the steamboat "Chancellor, No. 2," at Belmont.  He landed the
first transport at Birds Point, Mo.; assisted in towing the pontoon bridge
under Gen. Fremont; was pilot of dispatch boat to Gen. Oglesby at Norfolk,
Mo.; was on "Lake Era, No. 2," carrying dispatches from Cairo to Paducah; 
went on steamboat, "United States," and towed gunboats to the battle of Ft. 
Henry; thence to Shiloh or Pittsburgh Landing.  He carried dispatches for 
Gen. Grant up the Tennessee River, and while thus engaged found the body 
of George Denney, of Wisconsin; was on a transfer at Cairo, and carried all 
government stores to Columbus, Ky., also supplies to army on Island No. 10; 
was in a guerrilla fight, when Gen. Faulkner was captured at Reel Foot Lake.  
Mr. Sandusky continued thus in the government employ until the close of the 
war.  He was in Memphis during Forrest's raid into that city, and was 
severely wounded by having a pile of cartridges thrown upon him.  Mr. 
Sandusky has led an eventful life, and has all the orders he received from 
numerous generals carefully preserved.  At the close of the war he went to 
Cairo, and engaged in steamboating; in 1878, he moved to Central City, Ky., 
where he has been engaged in the hotel business, and is now building one of 
the finest hotels between Louisville and Paducah.  In 1858 he married Katie 
Mangin, of Cairo, a native of Belfast, Ireland; to them was born one child, 
Alonzo (deceased).  Mrs. Sandusky died in 1864, and Mr. S. in 1876 married 
Miss F. A. Logan, of Marion, Ky., and a daughter of J. B. and Lucy (Payne) 
Logan.  To this union one child was born, Geneva.  Mr. Sandusky is a member 
of the K. of H.

Sandusky Dunum Way Sowdosko Wallace Oglesby Denny Faulkner Mangin Logan Payne
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Fayette-PA Washington Poland OH Ireland

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