FRANK E. SANDS.

  Frank E. Sands, president and treasurer of the Journal Publishing Company of Meriden and publisher of the Meriden Daily Journal, was born in New Fairfield, Connecticut, July 17, 1863, a son of Jesse and Mary Melvina (Turner) Sands. He is a representative of prominent old colonial families. His great-great-grandfather in the maternal line was one of the first settlers of New Fairfield, Connecticut, the little colony receiving a land grant from the general assembly. He is also a direct descendant of John Wakeman, the first treasurer of New Haven colony. His early days were spent in New Fairfield and in Danbury, where he attended school until fourteen years of age. He then became a resident of New Haven and after a preparatory course entered Yale in the fall of 1882. He graduated with the class of 1885 as a Bachelor of Philosophy.

  Not long afterward Mr. Sands became connected with the wholesale produce business but did not find that vocation an agreeable one and in 1885 he entered the field of journalism as a reporter on the New Haven Union. In 1886 he became interested in the formation of the Journal Publishing Company of Meriden and removed to that city. He was elected one of the directors and the treasurer of the company, in which position he has since continued. He is also business manager of the Meriden Daily Journal.

  On the 26th of April, 1888, Mr. Sands was married to Miss Alice Louise Brasee, a daughter of Judge John Schofield and Anna (Dickinson) Brasee, of Lancaster, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Sands have one daughter, Anna Brasee Sands, born December 10, 1889. A son[,] Trafford Turner, died in infancy.

  Mr. Sands is well known in fraternal circles, being a thirty-second degree Mason and belonging to a number of other orders. He was one of the founders of the Highland Country Club and is a member of the board of governors. He belongs to the Home Club and for a number of years was chairman of its executive committee, while in 1897-8 he served as its president. He was an active member of the committee that planned and built the present handsome clubhouse. He served three terms as president of the Meriden Chamber of Commerce. When the Connecticut Home Guard was formed, after the outbreak of the war, he was commissioned a major in command of the Meriden Transport Battalion. He is chairman of the military department of the Meriden War Bureau of the State Council of Defense and otherwise actice [sic] in war matters.

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