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Longmont Ledger (Longmont, Boulder County)
Aug 12, 1898
BILLINGS--day, August 7, 1898, from the result of an injury to the chest received several years ago, Ferdinand D. Billings, aged 51 years.
Mr. Billings has been around this part of the country for the past twenty-five years, and has lately run the Rock Creek house at Allen's Park. He was the brother of J. B. Billings who owned the resort on the St. Vrain which goes by his name.