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��EDWIN D. SANBORN, L L. D.

���PROP. E. D. SANBORN.

��ed to the Legislative Council, and ap- pointed by Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, one of the original Senators of the new Dominion Parliament, under the Act of Confederation, which appointment was for life. He was also for a time Judge of the Superior Court in the County of Sherbrooke. and in 1S73 was called by Her Majesty, suddenly and unexpected- ly, to the Court of Queen's Bench, a position equivalent to that of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which position he filled with distinguished ability until his death. Edwin D., like his brothers, was brought up on the farm, reared in habits of economy and industry, in the prosecu- tion of the ordinary duties of a farmer's son. The work was constant, laborious and exhausting, but pleasant and health- ful. Early hours, wholesome food, a well ventilated house, with its wide, open fire-place, active duties by day and undisturbed sleep by night, enjoyed through the years of his early life, all contributed toward the formation of a sound physical constitution. His bodily powers, maturing under the gracious in- fluences of culture and self-command,

��endowed him with an easy and manly bearing which has characterized him in all the varied positions he has been called to fill. The personal presence of the man has been no small adjunct of power in the management of over forty classes of undergraduates, each of which has seen in the professor one whom it was safe to trust and honorable to obey.

When a boy, in the public schools of his native town, he exhibited aptitude and proficiency in the studies pursued, and was declared by his instructor quali- fied to teach in similar schools at the age of sixteen. The same year he was en- tered as a student at old Gilmanton Acad- emy, and commenced at once the study of Latin, and in six weeks had mastered Adam's Latin Grammar. The following winter, 1825-26, he taught in Deerfield, and was re-engaged for the same school the next year, receiving for the first term ten, and for the second eleven, dollars per month. In the fall of 1827 he taught a select school in Barnstead. During his preparation for college the summers of each year were devoted to labor on his father's farm. In 1828 he entered the Freshman class in Dartmouth College,

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