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He was born on October 9, 1832 in Union County, Ohio, of colonial Virginia ancestry. In 1852 accompanied his family to southeast Iowa, settling on farm property near Talleyrand, Keokuk County.
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He was born on October 9, 1832 in Union County, Ohio, of colonial Virginia ancestry. In 1852 accompanied his family to southeast Iowa, settling on farm property near Talleyrand, Keokuk County.
He received a common-school education and some academy training in Ohio.
Notwithstanding his incomplete education, he added school teaching to his work on the farm. Later in Sigourney he engaged for a time in banking and promoting a new railway. Becoming interested in journalism, however, he purchased the Sigourney News in 1863 and thus began a notable career as a publisher and editor.
In May 1869, he began publishing the Western Stock Journal, the first periodical devoted to animal husbandry. The following year the National Livestock Journal was established at Chicago, and in November 1870 the two consolidated, with Sanders as associate editor though he continued to reside in Iowa.
In the financial crisis of 1873 he lost all his savings, and for a year thereafter served as editor of the Spirit of the Times, a New York journal mainly interested in promoting the trotting horse and the race track. After a year in the East he went to Chicago, where he and S. G. Brabrook purchased the National Livestock Journal, Sanders becoming its editor in January 1876. His son, Alvin H. gave him valuable assistance after 1876.
In October 1881, he disposed of his interests in the National Livestock Journal and in December began the publication, at Chicago, of the Breeders' Gazette. He had a keen conception of what was necessary in a high-class livestock journal to secure the support of intelligent stockmen.
In 1888 he accepted a commission from the United States Department of Agriculture to go to Europe and investigate the health of herds from which cattle were being exported to America. He gave up the editorial cares of the Breeders' Gazette to his son in 1888, thus terminating his active service in journalism, although his name appeared as joint editor of the periodical until 1891.
In 1868 he purchased in Ohio the noted Percheron stallion, Victor Hugo, and later the imported horses Dieppe, Diligence, and Tempest, paying $3, 000 for Dieppe and $2, 500 for Diligence.
He was the author of the Norman Stud Book (1876), the Percheron-Norman Stud Book. When in France in 1883, he rendered valuable assistance to French horsemen by establishing the Percheron Stud Book.
In 1881 he published in cooperation with Kentucky breeders, a register of pedigrees, the Breeders' Trotting Stud Book. In 1885 he brought out Horse-Breeding, and in 1887, The Breeds of Livestock and the Principles of Heredity, both of which circulated extensively at home and abroad.
Sanders died at his own hand in Memphis, Tenn.
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Having married Martha Rodgers of Ohio, he moved to Sigourney. His son Alvin H. Sanders was born in 1860.