Holland - Sanford - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

W. E. Nicholson this morning received a telegram from J. D. Collins, dated at Middleton, Ohio, containing the sad news that Sanford Holland died at that place Sunday at 1 o’clock. The cause of his death was not stated. Mr. Holland came to this city when quite a young man and for many years was a salesman in the dry goods store of D. F. McClure. He was a great favorite in society circles and was popular with all classes. About eighteen years ago he was married in this city to Miss Ida Collins, a sister of T. B. Collins, now of Kankakee, Ill. A few years after marriage they went to Cincinnati where Mr. Holland was engaged as a salesman in the house of the John Shillito Company. His wife and one son survive him. They will have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in this city in their sad bereavement.

Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Thursday, 26 January 1893

he Middletown Signal of last Monday contains the full particulars of the death of Sanford E. Holland, which occurred in that city last Sunday, the result of typhoid fever:

Four weeks ago Mr. Holland came home from Toledo complaining of being unwell. His indisposition seemed to be merely temporary, however, and after a few days, accompanied by his wife and son, Frank, he started on a pleasure trip through the West. Arriving at Kankakee, Ills., Mr. Holland was taken much worse, however, and it was found necessary to summon a physician. In a short while he recovered, apparently and at his own request returned to this city. No sooner was this place reached than he experienced a second relapse and from that time he hovered between life and death until yesterday when he passed quietly to that home from which no traveler returns.

Sanford E. Holland was a man well known in this city and throughout the state of Ohio, and was beloved and respected by all who knew him, one in whom truth and integrity were strikingly prominent and whose liberality and charity were marked traits of character. To those in distress he ever lent a helping hand and never was the needy one turned from his door. As love and charity are the criterions of man, but these should Sanford Holland be judged and by these is he shown to be a man of pre-eminent worth. He was 47 years of age and has resided in this city for the past seven years.

In 1875 he married Ida M. Collins, the daughter of J. D. Collins, of Middleton. To this union one child, Frank, now 17 years of age, was born. For years Mr. Holland was the Ohio representative of Jas. S. Kirk & Co., of Chicago, but latterly has been in the employ of the Cleveland Baking Powder Co., whose every confidence he commanded. By his death, Middletown loses a citizen of whom she might well be proud and one whose place can never be filled in the hearts of those who knew him best.

A kind father, a loving husband, a true friend has passed away and in that great wakening on the day of judgment the name of Sanford Holland will be written in letters of gold on the records of the blest. May he rest in peace.