Background
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin was born on December 15, 1831 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Aaron and Lydia (Leavitt) Sanborn.
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin was born on December 15, 1831 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Aaron and Lydia (Leavitt) Sanborn.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1855.
2d, Louisa Leavitt, July 16, 1862. Editor Boston Commonwealth, 1863-1867, Springfield Republican, 1868-1914, Journal of Social Science, 1867-1897. Has lectured at Cornell, Smith, and Wellesley, and at Concord (Massachusetts) School of Philosophy.
One of founders American Social Science Association, National Prison Association, National Conference of Charities, Clarke School for the Deaf, Massachusetts Infant Asylum, Concord School of Philosophy, and secretary or president of most of these.
Chairman Board of State Charities, 1874-1876. Massachusetts inspector of charities, 1879-1888.
Author: (biographies) Thoreau, 1872. John Brown, 1885; Doctor South. G. Howe, 1891.
Alcott, 1893; Emerson, 1895.
Doctor Earle, 1898. Personality of Thoreau, 1902. Personality of Emerson, 1903.
A History of New Hampshire, 1904.
Recollections of Seventy Years, 1909. Final Life of Thoreau, 1914. Edited for Bibliophile Society, Boston, 5 volumes of Thoreau Manuscript, and a volunteer each of Letters of Paul Jones, of J. H. Payne and Mistress Shelley, and Letters and Fragments of Technology L. Peacock, in all 8 volumes
Home: Concord, Massachusetts
Married Ariana Walker, August 23, 1854.