Born April 13, 1823, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Passing his boyhood in Chillicothe, when little past fourteen he began the study of medicine. During 1839 and '40 he attended courses of lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College, Too young to graduate, at the conclusion of the last course he came to Farmington, in this State in 1841 and began the practice of medicine when but little past eighteen. He represented Van Buren county in the 1st and 2nd Iowa General Assemblies, 1846-48. While a member of that body he initiated the institutions of the college that was subsequently the Medical Department of the State University, and now the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk. Mr. Sanford was united in marriage to Martha A. Craig, April 17, 1844, in Farmington, Iowa. Was then and after among the ablest and most distinguished surgeons of the west, and was for a long time connected with the medical college at Keokuk. He was a man of keen intellect, the quickest perceptions, confident of his own ability, a ready talker and proud of his profession.
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