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 THE

��GRANITE MONTHLY.

��A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, HISTORY AND STATE PROGRESS.

��VOL. 1.

��MARCH, 1878.

��NO. 10.

��EDWIN DAVID SANBOBN, LL. D.

��BY REV. SILAS KETCHUM, WINDSOR, CT.

[This sketch is from the materials for a Dictionary of New Hampshire Biography now in prepara- tion by the writer.]

��Edwin David Sanborn, who has been, with the exception of four years of service in a similar institution, a profes- sor in Dartmouth College since 1S35, was born on a farm which lay about half way between Barnstead line and Gilmanton Academy, but within the limits of Gil- manton, May 14, 1808, and is, conse- quently, now completing his seventieth year.

His mother was Hannah Hook, daugh- ter of Capt. Dyer Hook of Chichester, and was the mother of nine children, of whom only three are living.

His father, David E. Sanborn, was a man well known in his day as an intelli- gent, energetic and progressive fanner of Gilmanton, who, starting with a farm of one hundred acres, which he in- herited, added to it by his own exertions until it was nearly a mile square. He was a schoolmaster of the old time, teach- ing winters for sixteen years, and had a wide reputation as an accomplished pen- man in the old " copy hand.'' He in- creased the value and quality of his farm stock by introducing improved breeds of cattle and the merino sheep. He was a man of conscientious piety, held with firmness and intelligence the doctrines of evangelical Christianity, and regularly and carefully instructed his children in the same ; thus laying deep and secure

��the foundations of their future integrity and usefulness. He took pains also to instruct them carefully in the rudiments of a good English education, encourag- ing and assisting them afterward in the pursuit of the higher branches of learn- ing, that he might send them forth well equipped for places of high responsi- bility.

Nor did they disappoint his hopes and expectations. His three sons rose to positions of much honor and influence. Dyer H. Sanborn, A. M., the eldest of the three (1799-1871), was for many years one of the best known instructors in vari- ous academies and seminaries in this State and Massachusetts, and author of two English Grammars which were in their day extensively used. He was also a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and held manv offices of influ- ence and trust, in which he acquitted himself with honor.

Hon. John Sewall Sanborn, Q. c, LL. D., D. C. L., (1819-1877), was the youngest of the nine children of David E. Sanborn, and graduating from Dart- mouth College, in which the subject of this sketch was then a professor, in 1842 he located in Sherbrooke, C. E., where he soon achieved distinction as a lawyer, and was a representative in the Canadian Parliament eight years ; was twice elect-

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