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History of Manistee, Mason and Oceana counties, Michigan
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of
Its Prominent Men and Pioneers

Published by H. R. Page & Co., Chicago, IL, 1882

Transcribed by Linda Talbott

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Page 115
SANDS, Wm B.O.
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William B. O. Sands was born in Boone County, Ill., July 2, 1838.
Enlisted August 16, 1861, in the Thirty-seventh Illinois Infantry, as
private; served in the department of the Southwest; discharged January,
1865, with a captain's commission.  Settled at Pentwater, Oceana Co.,
Mich., in 1866, and engaged in lumbering and merchandising, and with his
partner, E. G. Maxwell, does a  yearly business of $300,000 in Pentwater,
Crystal, and Benona.
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