William B. Gere

William B. Gere was a farmer, Union Army officer during the American Civil War, and served as a territorial legislator in Minnesota during the 1850s. After the war he lived in Sumter County, Alabama and served in the Alabama House of Representatives. He was a Democrat.

He settled in Chatfield, Minnesota. A Civil War era photo of him and others survives. His younger brother Thomas Parke Gere served with him. The Minnesota Historical Society has some of his papers.

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