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Sanborn, Edwin David

educator, author, was born May 14, 1808, in Gilmanton, N. H. He was an educator who was professor of literature at Dartmouth college in 1863-85, and the author of a History of New Hampshire. He died Dec. 29, 1885, in Hanover, N. H.

SANBORN, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN, journalist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1831, in Hampton Falls, N. H. He is a noted journalist and reformer living at Concord, Mass., and connected with The Springfield Republican from 1868. He is the author of Life of Thoreau; Life and Letters of John Brown; and Life of Dr. S. E. Howe.