John Sanford (1803)
John Sanford( June 3, 1803 – October 4, 1857) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
John Sanford (author)
John Sanford or John B. Sanford, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro( May 31, 1904 – March 5, 2003), was an American screenwriter and author who wrote 24 books.
The" Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature" describes him as," Perhaps the most outstanding neglected novelist."
A one- time member of the Communist Party, after he and his wife Marguerite Roberts refused to testify to the House Un- American Activities Committee, they were blacklisted and unable to work in Hollywood for nearly a decade.
Sanford wrote half of his books after he was 80.
He published a 5- volume autobiography, for which he received a PEN/ Faulkner Award and the" Los Angeles Times" Lifetime Achievement Award.
He left three unpublished novels and was writing up until a month before his death at 98.
John Sanford (1851)
John Sanford (January 18, 1851 – September 26, 1939) was an American businessman, a prominent owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 20th congressional district.
Robert A. Eccleston
Robert A. Eccleston (1830-1911), pioneer, forty-niner, diarist who recorded the discovery of the Tucson Cutoff and Yosemite Valley.
Eccleston was born in New York City, on March 4, 1830 one of ten children of Irish immigrants Edward Eccleston and Mary Anne Christie.
In Spring of 1849, at the beginning of the California Gold Rush, Robert with his older brother Edward Eccleston joined the Fremont Association formed to travel to California and mine gold there.
The Association traveled by sea to Texas and then purchased wagons for an overland journey with a U. S. Army expedition to establish a military road from San Antonio to El Paso.
The Association then joined with John Coffee Hays and his experienced party of frontiersmen for the journey from El Paso to California.
Robert kept a diary of this journey from April 3, 1849, when they sailed from New York, to December 27, 1849 when they reached the borders of California at Fort Yuma.
In this book he records of how the Tucson Cutoff was found and first traveled by his party.
Months later Eccleston's diary began again in the Southern placer mines at Agua Frio, on October 20, 1850.
It describes life in the mines and his experience of the 1850–1851 Mariposa Indian War fought in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
In it he also recorded the discovery of the Yosemite Valley by one of the militia columns marching against the mountain tribes.
On September 17, 1857, Robert Eccleston married Emily Josephine Young in Colusa and had their first child there.
By 1861 they were in New York, where they had their second child.
Returning to California after 1861 he settled down on a ranch to have several children in Forbestown, California.
In 1870, Eccleston had taken his family back east to New Jersey where one of his children was born.
Eccleston went to Arizona later in 1870, where for three years he was Indian Agent for the Gila Pima Reservation.
One of his sons was born in Tucson in 1879, and another in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881.
There Eccleston was considered one of the founders of Tombstone, and was there at the time of the "Gunfight at the OK Corral".
In 1885, Eccleston moved to Oregon, where he lived until 1900, when he settled in Oakland, California.
He died there in February 1, 1911.
In 1950, his diary of his 1849 travels was published as "Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail 1849".
His account of his time in the goldfields and the Mariposa Indian War was published in 1957 as "The Mariposa Indian War 1850–1851".
John Sanford Barnes
John Sanford Barnes( May 12, 1836 – November 22, 1911) was a United States Navy officer and businessman and naval historian.
John C. Sanford
John C. Sanford( born 1950) is an American plant geneticist, and an advocate of intelligent design and young earth creationism.
Tom Corrigan (jockey)
Thomas Corrigan( 1851 or May 1854 – 14 August 1894), invariably known as" Tom" or" Tommy", was an Australian steeplechase jockey who died as a result of injuries sustained while racing.
John S. Cohen
John Sanford Cohen( February 26, 1870 May 13, 1935) was a United States Senator from Georgia.
John S. Mason
John Sanford Mason (August 21, 1824 – November 29, 1897) was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
John Moore (broadcaster)
John Sanford Moore( born June 5, 1966), better known as John Moore, is a Canadian radio and television broadcaster, film critic, voice actor and comedian.
He works for the CFRB 1010 radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Question: Who died earlier, John Sanford (1851) or Robert A. Eccleston?
Answer: Robert A. Eccleston