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N. F. SANFORD, superindendent of coal-works, post office Mansfield Valley, is a native of Youngstown, Ohio, born in 1843, a son of Samuel Sanford, a farmer of Ohio. He is the first-born of six children, and was educated at the Warren high-school, subsequently taking a commercial course at Oberlin College, Ohio. Early in life he engaged in the coal business, which he has followed since. His first connection with the works of which he is now superintendent was with what was known as the Essen mines of the Chartiers Coal company, owned and controlled by the Economite society. Mr. Sanford came to Allegheny county in 1883, and the works, of which he is a member, and known as San ford & Co.’s Coke and Coal Works, was organized in that year. He is superintendent and general manager, and the market for his production is Youngstown during the winter and the lakes in the summer. Mr. Sanford was married in 1861 to Ostia Louise Leet, daughter of Homer M. Leet, of Connecticut, a prominent engineer and surveyor. Seven children, five of whom are living, have been born to their union: Jesse H., formerly superintendent of the works of Sanford & Co., now owner of mines and stores; Bertha, Erl, Ida May and Violet. Mr. Sanford started in life comparatively poor, but by close application and industry has made life a success. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a republican. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford’s ancestors were early pioneers of Trumbull county, or “Western Reserve” Ohio, where some of the direct lineage from the old Pilgrims or Puritans (from whom Mrs. Sanford claims direct lineage) settled (coming from the east) while the country was a wilderness, inhabited by wild beasts and Indians. Mr. A. Woodford, uncle of Mrs. Sanford, was the first white child born in Trumbull county, eight and one-half miles north of what is now the city of Youngstown, Ohio.