Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

American activist, journalist, editor and author

Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1831

Place of Birth: Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, United States

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1917

Profession: historian, biographer, editor, journalist, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (December 15, 1831 – February 24, 1917) 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.