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He was born in 1783 near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. His father, William Sanderson, was a farmer who served as a soldier in the American army throughout the Revolution. His mother, Agnes McClellan (Buchanan) Sanderson, is said to have been descended from the Douglas family of Scotland.
Since schools in the country districts were few and inadequate at that time, John was educated by private tutoring. In 1806 he went to Philadelphia to study law.
In Philadelphia he became a teacher and assistant principal in the Clermont Academy. He became distinguished for his mastery of the classics and later of the English language and of French literature. After the retirement of William Duane he seems to have been for some months the editor of the Aurora. There is no question that he bought an interest in the paper from Duane in 1822 which he sold to Richard Penn Smith the following year.
Meanwhile, in 1820, with his brother, Joseph M. Sanderson, he published the first two volumes of the Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence that was later completed in seven additional volumes (1823 - 27) by Robert Waln, Jr. , and others.
His health declining, he gave up teaching for a time. In 1835 he went abroad and spent nearly a year in Paris, where he was well received in literary circles. During this period he wrote a series of articles later brought together and published as Sketches of Paris: in Familiar Letters to His Friends; by an American Gentleman in Paris (1838). This work was widely read.
It was published in London with the title, The American in Paris (2 vols. , 1838), and was translated into French by Jules Janin and published in Paris in 1843. A rather brief stay in England furnished material for "The American in London, " a part of which appeared in the Knickerbocker.
In the autumn of 1836 Sanderson returned to America. The educational system of Pennsylvania had been recently assured of state aid, and its public schools were expanding under the impetus of intelligent interest and support. The Central High School of Philadelphia was opened in 1838, Dr. Alexander Dallas Bache, the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, became its first principal the following year, and in September 1840 Sanderson, who had been Bache's teacher, became professor of Greek and Latin and assisted in the department of English and belles-lettres.
He was a professor of Greek and Latin from Philadelphia, together with his brother he created the first two volumes of "Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence". He became a popular contributor to several publications of his day, especially the Aurora, the Portfolio, and the Knickerbocker. His popular work: The American in Paris, marked by vivid descriptions of personalities and events, a keen sense of humor, and kindly understanding, was widely read.
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He was an ardent champion of classical training at a time when the public schools afforded no opportunity for the study of Greek or Latin, he insisted that the ancient languages should not be excluded from the curriculum of Girard College.
His culture and experience, a certain originality of approach, together with unusual charm of personality, made him an inspiring teacher. Sanderson had a gift for writing.
He married Sophie, the daughter of John T. Carre, the head of the school, with whom for a number of years he was associated in teaching.
