The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Sanborn, Alvan Francis

SANBORN, săn'bėrn, Alvan Francis, American journalist: b. Marlborough, Mass., 8 July 1866. He was graduated from Amherst in 1887 and filled several journalistic positions, among them that of Paris correspondent of New York and Boston periodicals from 1899. He published &lsquo;Moody's Lodging House and Other Tenement Sketches&rsquo; (1895); &lsquo;Meg McIntyre's Raffle and Other Stories&rsquo; (1896); &lsquo;Paris and the Social Revolution&rsquo; (1903), besides editing &lsquo;Masterpieces of Prose&rsquo; (1893); &lsquo;Reminiscences of Richard Lathers&rsquo; (1907), etc.