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Sandford Sellers (1854 - 1938) served as Principal, Superintendent and President of Wentworth Military Academy from 1880 to 1935.

Sandford Sellers was born in Kentucky in 1854, but was raised on a ranch in eastern Texas. As a young boy, he worked in cotton and sugar cane fields, and as he grew, lived the life of a cowboy, roping, branding, and herding cattle. He always dreamed of gaining a college education, and soon he returned to Kentucky and attended Central University in Louisville, where he earned the degree of Master of Arts in 1879. After a year teaching in Texas, his classmate Benjamin L. Hobson convinced him to come to Lexington, Missouri to help start Wentworth Male Academy in 1880. When Hobson left to pursue a career in the ministry at the end of the 1880-81 school year, Sellers took sole charge of the academy. For the next 58 years, he led Wentworth and built it into an institution with a national reputation. Sandford Sellers died in 1938.

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	[[Sandford Sellers]] (1854 - 1938)served as Principal, Superintendent and President of [[Wentworth Military Academy]] from 1880 to 1935.		[[Sandford Sellers]] (1854 - 1938) served as Principal, Superintendent and President of [[Wentworth Military Academy]] from 1880 to 1935.

	Sandford Sellers was born in Kentucky in 1854, but was raised on a ranch in eastern Texas. As a young boy, he worked in cotton and sugar cane fields, and as he grew, lived the life of a cowboy, roping, branding, and herding cattle. He always dreamed of gaining a college education, and soon he returned to Kentucky and attended Central University in Louisville, where he earned the degree of Master of Arts in 1879. After a year teaching in Texas, his classmate Benjamin L. Hobson convinced him to come to [[Lexington, Missouri]] to help start [[Wentworth Male Academy]] in 1880. When Hobson left to pursue a career in the ministry at the end of the 1880-81 school year, Sellers took sole charge of the academy. For the next 58 years, he led Wentworth, and built it into an institution with a national reputation. Sandford Sellers died in 1938.		Sandford Sellers was born in Kentucky in 1854, but was raised on a ranch in eastern Texas. As a young boy, he worked in cotton and sugar cane fields, and as he grew, lived the life of a cowboy, roping, branding, and herding cattle. He always dreamed of gaining a college education, and soon he returned to Kentucky and attended Central University in Louisville, where he earned the degree of Master of Arts in 1879. After a year teaching in Texas, his classmate Benjamin L. Hobson convinced him to come to [[Lexington, Missouri]] to help start [[Wentworth Male Academy]] in 1880. When Hobson left to pursue a career in the ministry at the end of the 1880-81 school year, Sellers took sole charge of the academy. For the next 58 years, he led Wentworth and built it into an institution with a national reputation. Sandford Sellers died in 1938.