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About Robert Alfred Sands, surgeon, medical lecturer
- Robert's birth, biographical, photograph, and death information are available at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125244861/robert-alfred-sands
- Robert's photograph is used courtesy of Adrian Thierry, Find A Grave ID 50329759.
- "Father, Dr Henry Berton Sands (M.D. Columbia 1854), a surgeon, professor in College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1867-1888; son of Robert Alfred and Ellen (Gedney) Sands; descendant of Comfort Sands, who came to America from England and settled at Sands Point, Long Island.
- "Mother, Sarah (Curtis) Sands, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Masten) Curtis. Philips-Andover.
- "Second colloquy appointment Junior year; first colloquy appointment Senior year; founder and member of Yale Banjo Club; member Delta Kappa Epsilon. M.D. Columbia 1888 (first Harsen prize for excellence in theory and practice of medicine; graduated first in a class of one hundred and fifty); surgical intern at Roosevelt Hospital 1888-1890; studied at the universities of Vienna, Berlin, and Paris 1890-91; demonstrator in anatomy at College of Physicians and Surgeons 1891-96; assistant surgeon at Roosevelt Hospital 1891-95; lectured at Post-Graduate Hospital and attending surgeon in its children's ward; practiced in New York City (specializing in dermatology) 1891-1907, when he gave up practice on account of ill health, member of Academy of Medicine.
- "Married October 2,1890, in New York City, Kate, daughter of Edward and Emily (Mulligan) Van Volkenburgh Children are Katherine Sedgwick (Mrs. John M. P. Thatcher) and Edward Van Volkenburgh, '18.
- "Survived by wife, daughter, son, two grandchildren, a brother, H. Hayden Sands, £#-'99 S., and a sister, Josephine S. Drury, the wife of Frederick W. Drury, '95 S."
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Robert Alfred Sands, surgeon, medical lecturer's Timeline
| 1862 |
July 28, 1862
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Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States
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| 1892 |
November 25, 1892
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Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States
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| 1928 |
June 16, 1928
Age 65
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Nazareth, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New york, United States
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