Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
American activist, journalist, editor and author (1831-1917) · United States · On the map · Journalists · Died at 85
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was an American journalist, teacher, author, reformer, and abolitionist. Sanborn was a social scientist and memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biographies of many of the movement's key figures.
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Frank Sanborn at age 21
Frank Sanborn of Concord, Massachusetts, resists arrest by federal marshals in regard to his support of abolitionist John Brown.
Franklin Sanborn in 1900
The Sanborn home in Concord
Photo of an elderly FBS from his obituary in The Harvard Crimson
Gravestone of F. B. Sanborn in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MassachusettsAbout this person
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 so-called Secret Six, or "Committee of Six", which funded or helped obtain funding for John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry; in fact, he introduced Brown to the others. A recent scholar describes him as "humorless".
