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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (December 15, 1831 – February 24, 1917) was an American journalist, teacher, author, reformer, and abolitionist. Sanborn was a social scientist and memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biographies of many of the movement's key figures.
Apr 5, 2024 · Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (born December 15, 1831, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, U.S.—died February 24, 1917, Plainfield, New Jersey) was an American journalist, biographer, and charity worker. A descendant of an old New England family (its progenitor first immigrating in 1632), Sanborn attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College (B ...
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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was born 15 December 1831 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire to parents Aaron Sanborn and Lydia (Leavitt) Sanborn. From an early age Sanborn’s academic career was promising—having claimed to read works such as Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe before the age of twelve.
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, who usually went by Frank, was member of the Concord literati, which included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Sanborn was a vocal abolitionist and was one of the “Secret Six” that funded John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.
Jul 1, 2014 · He led a life of literature, tragedy, controversy, and passion, this “dark celebrity” of Boston: Mr. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Sanborn was born on December 15th, 1831 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the fourth of what would later become six children.
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EXTENT: .42 linear feet. One container. ORGANIZATION: Organized in three series. Series I: Accession correspondence, 1936; Series II: Manuscripts and papers, 1845-1901; Series III: Correspondence, 1854-1916. BIOGRAPHY: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire on 15 December 1831. He was the son of Aaron Sanborn, a ...
In July of 1853, Harvard student Franklin Benjamin Sanborn walked from Cambridge to Concord to meet Ralph Waldo Emerson, who talked to the young man in the study of his home on the Cambridge Turnpike—ten life-altering minutes that later resulted in Sanborn's permanent residence in Concord.
