Lonoke County ArArchives Biographies.....Wilbourn, Sanford 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

SANFORD WILBOURN.
    Sanford Wilbourn, distributor of the Ford cars in England, has spent his
life in the little city which is still his home, his birth having here occurred
in 1883, his parents being Sanford and Bettie (Graham) Wilbourn. While spending
his youthful days under their roof he attended the puhlic schools and thus
qualified for life's practical and responsible duties. He afterward learned the
blacksmith's trade and became a practical and thoroughly trained mechanic. In
1909 he established a garage and in 1914 secured the agency of the Ford cars,
his district covering the south half of Lonoke county. He sells an average of
about one hundred and thirty-two cars per season and twelve tractors and has
thus built up a business of substantial proportions. He carries in stock all the
automobile accessories, tires and equipment and is able to fit out a car
completely. He has also become one of the directors of the Citizens' Bank &
Trust Company and is regarded as one of the most thoroughly reliable and
progressive young business men of this part of the state.

    Mr. Wilhourn was united in marriage to Miss Mamie Hamilton and they have
become the parents of one son, Sanford S. In his political views Mr. Wilbourn is
a democrat and while not an aspirant for office he has filled the position of
alderman and in that connection exercised his official prerogatives in support
of many plans and measures for the general good. In matters of citizenship he
has always stood for progressiveness and advancement and during the World war he
did everything in his power to uphold the interests of the government and acted
as chairman of the Red Cross chapter here. Fraternally he is a Mason of high
rank, as is indicated by the fact that he is identified with the Mystic Shrine.
His religious faith is that of the Methodist church, which finds in him a
generous supporter and loyal follower and all who know him class him with the
public-spirited citizens of England.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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