Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
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Sanborn was born at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the son of Aaron and Lydia (Leavitt) Sanborn. He graduated Harvard in 1855. As secretary of the Massachusetts Kansas Commission he came into close touch with John Brown.
From 1863 to 1867 Sanborn was an editor of the Boston "Commonwealth", from 1867 to 1897 of the "Journal of Social Science", and from 1868 to 1914 a correspondent of the Springfield "Republican".
He was one of the founders of, and was closely identified with, the American Social Science Association, the National Prison Association, the National Conference of Charities, the Clarke School for the Deaf, the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, and the Concord School of Philosophy.
From 1874 to 1876 he was chairman of the Massachusetts State Board of Charities, and from 1879 to 1888 State Inspector of Charities. He lectured at Cornell, Smith, and Wellesley, edited writings of Thoreau, Paul Jones, J. H. Payne, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Love Peacock, and also published a number of books. He lived at Concord, Massachusetts.
Works
* "Thoreau" (1872)
* "John Brown" (1885)
* "Dr. S. G. House" (1891)
* "A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy" (with William Torrey Harris) (1893)
* "Emerson" (1895)
* "Dr. Earle" (1898)
* "Personality of Thoreau" (1902)
* "Personality of Emerson" (1903)
* "A History of New Hampshire" (1904)
* "Hawthorne" (1908)
* "Recollections of Seventy Years" (1909)
* "Final Life of Thoreau" (1914)
External links
*" [http://www.bungalowshop.com/sanborn/index.html The Significance of Being Frank] ", by Tom Foran Clark
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