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


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About Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

  • 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.

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