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| | William M. Rounds |
 | | His grandfather, William Seward Rounds, was born in 1809, at Brattleboro, Vermont, subsequently removed to McKean County, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in farming for a number of years, and in 1862 went to Olean, New York, and enlisted in the Union army for service during the Civil war. |
 | | Removing then to Buchanan County, Iowa, he was married, and there his two sons were born, and in 1880 returned to McKean County, Pennsylvania, and resumed his activities as an oil operator. |
 | | William M. Rounds was educated in the public schools of Eldred, Pennsylvania, and after his graduation from the high school of that place, in 1893, entered the employ of Franchot Brothers, oil producers operating in McKean County, Pennsylvania, and Cattaraugus County, New York. |
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