Fred Clyde Sanford, MD 
 
FRED CLYDE SANFORD, M.D., Biography / Grant Twp, Clare Co, MI 
 
 
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Portrait and Biographical Record of Northern Michigan.  Chicago: Record 
Publishing Co., 1895. 
 
FRED CLYDE SANFORD, M.D., is a graduate of the medical department of the 
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, as a member of the Class of '90.  In the 
following fall, after attaining his degree, he settled in Clare, and has since been 
engaged in practice.  He is succeeding in rapidly building up a good reputation as 
a young man of merit and ability.  Politically he s a Democrat, has oftentimes 
been sent as a delegate to district conventions, and is now Chairman of the 
County Central Committee. 
 
The Doctor's grandfather, ABRAHAM SANFORD, was born in Connecticut, but 
emigrated to New York State and thence to Michigan.  He settled in Jackson 
County when there were only a few families living within its boundaries.  He 
improved land and became the possessor of a fine farm of one hundred and 
forty-four acres.  His death occurred at the age of eighty-four years.  His first wife 
died in early womanhood, leaving four children.  He married a second time, but 
had no family by this union.  
 
GEORGE H. SANFORD, father of our subject, was born in Cayuga County, N.Y., 
and was reared on his father's Michigan farm.  For a quarter of a century he has 
engaged in farming and lumbering in Isabella County.  He owns two hundred and 
eighty acres of land in Clare County, and four hundred and forty acres in Isabella 
County.  His farms are well improved and would find a ready sale in any market.  
His wife, RUTH E., nee BEGEL, likewise a native of New York State, is still 
living.  Their eldest son, CLARENCE F., resides at home, and HERBERT A., the 
second son, is lawyer of Mt. Pleasant.  GEORGE H. SANFORD has always been 
greatly interested in campaign and political work of the Democratic party.  He has 
never been an office-seeker, but has held a few local positions.  He is a 
prominent member of the Odd Fellows' society, and has been a delegate to the 
National Encampment. 
 
Dr. F.C.SANFORD was born in Jackson County, Mich., June 11, 1864, and 
passed his boyhood on his father's farm.  After completing his elementary 
education he entered the Mt. Pleasant High School, from which he graduated.  
He further pursued his studies in Hillsdale College, and, obtained a certificate, 
taught school for a period.  Under Dr. F.H. TYLER, he then took up the study of 
medicine, and after taking a course of lectures in the medical department of the 
University of Michigan, graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  He is a 
member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Modern Woodmen of 
America, and the Knights of Pythias. 
 
In September, 1886, Dr. SANFORD married Miss MARY, daughter of GEORGE 
F. GRINNELL, a farmer of Isabella County.  Mrs. SANFORD was born in that 
county, and there grew to womanhood.  To the Doctor and wife has been born 
one son, BURTON J., his birth having occurred in February, 1888, at Ann Arbor.