Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Sands, J. Seldon
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Falls Township


J. SELDON SANDS, M. D. druggist, P.O. Tullytown, was born in 
Union county, Pa., April 21, 1858, and is a son of J. W. and 
Christiana G. (Templeton) Sands, natives of Pennsylvania, 
and of English origin.   His father was president of a bank 
at Mifflinburg, Pa., also serving as cashier of the same.  
He had five children, three of whom grew to maturity, our 
subject being the youngest.  He was reared in Mifflinburg, 
and received his education at Mifflinburg academy, and also 
attended the university at Lewisville, now the Bucknell 
university.  He chose medicine as his profession and came to 
Tullytown and established the first drug store.  His 
brother, Dr. O. J. Sands, was then practicing here, and with 
him J. Seldon studied medicine, also attending the Jefferson 
Medical college, where he graduated as an M. D.  He then 
engaged in practice at Tullytown and vicinity, but owing to 
ill health has been compelled very reluctantly to quit his 
practice, and has since devoted his time to his drug store.  
He was married December 31, 1884, in Bristol borough, to 
Adda B., daughter of Joseph F. Van Sant.  He is a 
republican.  Mr. Sands traces his ancestry directly back to 
Edwin Sands, archbishop of York, England, born in 1519 and 
died in 1588.