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 SANBORN

SANDERS

nected with AVashington university, St. Louis, 1860-62 ; at Packer institute, Brooklyn, and was professor of English literature in Smith college, 1880-86. Later she became a newspaper corre- spondent, lecturer, and writer for magazines, on education, literature and household economy. Her books, written under the name "Kate San- born,'' include : Home Pictures of English Poets (1869); Round Table Series of Literary Lessons (1884); Vanity and Lisanity of Genius (1885); Adopting ayi Abandoned Farm (18!)0); My Liter- ary Zoo (1892): A Truthful Woman in Sojithern California (1897); Abandoning an Adoj^ted Farm (1899); Favorite Lectures {IQOO); besides a series of successful calendars.

SANBORN, Walter Henry, jurist, was born on Sanborn's Hill, Epsom, N. II., Oct. 19,18-15; eldest son of Henry F. and Eunice (Davis) San- born ; grandson of Frederick and Lucy (Sargent) Sanborn and of Rufus and Sallie (Beaman) Davis, and lineal descendant of Eliphalet Sanborn of Epsom, who served in the Colonial army in the French and Indian war ; served with the New Hampshire militia at Lake Champlain and at Ticonderoga in 1777, and was present at Bur- goyne's surrender ; also of William Sanborn, born in 1622, who came from England to Hampton, N.H.. about 1632, with his grandfather, Stephen Bachiler, and served in King Philip's war ; also of Rev. Benjamin Sargent, who enlisted in the third New Hampshire Continental regiment for three years on March 31, 1777, and served through the war, participating in the battle of Saratoga, and being present at the surrender of Burgoyne. "Walter Henry Sanborn was raised on the ancestral farm of three hundred acres on Sanborn's Hill, which was acquired by his ancestor, Reuben San- born, in 1762, and descended to the eldest son of each generation. He was fitted for college at the public schools and academies of Epsom and Pitts- field, N.H., and graduated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870. He was principal of the high school at Milford, N.H., 1867-1870 ; studied law with Bainbridge Wadleigh (q.v.), and re- moved to St. Paul, Minu., in February, 1870, being admitted to the bar in the supreme court of Minnesota in 1871 ; practised law in St. Paul with his uncle. Gen. John B. Sanborn (q.v.), 1871- 92, and on March 17, 1892, was commissioned U.S. circuit judge for the eighth judicial cii-cuit. On Nov. 10, 1874, he was married to Emih" Francis, daughter of John E. and Mary (Whitte- more) Bruce of Milford, N.H. He was a member of the city council of St. Paul, 1878-80 and 1885- 1892 ; president of the Union League of St. Paul, 1890, of the St. Paul Bar association, 1890-91 ; and a member of various other organizations. He received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Dart- mouth in 1893.

SANDEMAN, Robert, religious leader, was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1718. He was edu- cated in the University of Edinburgh, engaged in the linen trade, and married Catharine, daughter of the Rev. John and Katharine (Black) Glass. The Rev. John Glass was the founder of the sect known first as the Glassites, and later as the Sandemanians. Robert Sandeman systematized the opinion of Glass and was made an elder, es- tablishing churches in the principal cities of Scot- land, in London, and other towns in England. He came to America accompanied by Mr. James Cargill in 1764, and was mainly instrumental in the establishment of several churches in New Eng- land, one of which was loL.ated in Danbury, an- other in Boston, Mass., and a third in Portsmouth, N.H. Subsequently Taunton and Newton. Mass., held congregations. In 1765 he located in Danbury, Conn., where much controversy was aroused by his views. Among the distinctive practices of the sect are community of goods, abstinence from blood and from things strangled, love-feasts, and weeklj' celebration of the communion. The main cause of the decline of this sect was its division into two parties, one being called the Osbornites from their teacher, Levi Osborne, and the other the Baptist Sandemanians from their practice of baptism. During the Revolution the Sandeman- ians were principally loyalists. Robert Sande- nian died at Danburj-, Conn., April 2, 1771.

SANDERS, Daniel Clarke, educator, was born in Sturbridge, Mass. , May 3, 1768 ; son of Micah and Azubah (Clarke) Sanders ; grandson of Daniel and Sarah (Metcalf) Sanders ; and of Moses Clarke. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1788, A.M., 1791 ; taught in the Cambridge grammar school, 1788-90 ; was licensed to preach in 1790, and or- dained, June 12, 1794. He was pastor of the Con- gregational church at Vergennes, Vt., 1794-99; secretary of the corporation of the University of Vermont and principal of its preparatory de- partment, 1800-04 ; and first president of the Uni- versity of Vermont, 1800-14, personally directing all branches of study, 1800-06. He also preached at Burlington, Vt., 1799-1807 ; was pastor of the Unitarian church at Medfield, Mass., 1815-29, and subsequently chairman of the Medfield board of selectmen and of the school committee. He was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1820, and of the committee of the General Court on tlie revision of the general statutes, 1832-35. He was married to Nancy, daughter of Dr. Jabez Fitch of Canterbury, Conn. Harvard gave him the degree of D.D. in 1809. He is the author of : History of the Indian Wars ivith the First Settlers of the United States (1812). and about thirt}' discourses, commencement and con- troversial addresses published in pamphlet form. He died in Medfield, Mass., Oct. 18, 1850.