Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Concord, MA
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The grave of author, journalist, and social reformer Franklin Benjamin Sanborn is located in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA.
Waymark Code: WMYWDX
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/02/2018
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The grave of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn is marked by a granite boulder in which is embedded a large bronze plaque and, below, a smaller bronze plaque for his wife. The larger plaque is inscribed:
FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SANBORN
A NATIVE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, BURT FOR SIXTY YEARS
A CITIZEN OF CONCORD.
BORN 15 DECEMBER 1831
DIED 24 FEBRUARY 1917
THROUGH A LONG LIFE, TO EACH GOOD CAUSE HE GAVE
HIMSELF UNSTINTED - HELPED THE WRONGED, THE SLAVE,
WITH COURAGE HIGH, A HIGHER FREEDOM TAUGHT,
NOR EVER WEALTH, BUT ONLY WISDOM SOUGHT.
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was born in Hampton Falls, NH on December 15, 1831. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated Harvard College in 1855. Upon graduation he became active in politics as a abolitionist and supported the Free Soil Party and the efforts of John Brown. During his life he was the editor of several publications including the Boston Commonwealth and the Journal of Social Science. He also became involved with many philanthropic organizations.
While living in Concord, MA he was acquainted with many literary figures and members of the Transcendental movement including Amos Bronson Alcott, William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. He was later to write biographies of many members of this literary circle.
Wikipedia lists the following writings of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn:
Thoreau (1872)
Life and Letters of John Brown (1885)
Dr. S. G. Howe (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 and His Friends (1908)
Bronson Alcott at Fruitlands (1908)
Recollections of Seventy Years (1909)
Thoreau and his Earliest Writings (1914)
Sixty years in Concord (1916)