Milton Holbrook Sanford (August 29, 1813 – August 3, 1883) was an American businessman, lawyer, and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.
Born in Medway, Massachusetts, the son of Sewall Sanford and Edena Holbrook, Milton Sanford would become one of the town's greatest benefactors.
[1] Sanford owned wool and cotton mills and made a fortune manufacturing blankets for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
In 1883 he built the Sanford Textile Mill in Medway which still stands to this day as a condominium property.