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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.
5 de abr. de 2024 · Franklin Benjamin Sanborn 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.A., 1855). In 1855 he settled in Concord, Massachusetts, then.
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1 de jul. de 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.
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.
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 John W. Clarkson, Jr. BORN ON 15 December 1831 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was destined to achieve success in no fewer than four separate careers. By the time of his death in February 1917, he was well known as a teacher, an abolitionist, an author, and a social reformer.
views 3,223,534 updated. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, 1831–1917, American journalist, author, and philanthropist, b. Hampton Falls, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1855. An active abolitionist, he was a friend and agent of John Brown, although he disapproved of the Harpers Ferry raid.
