Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Historian, Author
1831 – 1917
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Who was Franklin Benjamin Sanborn?
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was an American journalist, author, and reformer. Sanborn was a social scientist, and a memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biographies of many of the movement's key figures. He founded the American Social Science Association, in 1865, "to treat wisely the great social problems of the day." He was a member of the Secret Six, or "Committee of Six," which funded the militant abolitionist John Brown.
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- Born
- Dec 15, 1831
Hampton Falls - Also known as
- Franklin Sanborn
- F. B. Sanborn
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- Lived in
- New Hampshire
- Died
- Feb 24, 1917
Plainfield - Resting place
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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