married Paine Lilake. 2. Henry, born March
I. 1746. mentioned below. 3. James, born De-
cember 6, 1748. 4. Moses, born October 25.
1758. died unmarried 1777. 5. Jesse, born De-
cember 10, I7''>4-
(V) Henry Sanborn, son of Moses Sanborn
(4), was born in Kensington, Xew Hampshire,
March i. 1746: lived and died in Kensington;
signed the association test there. He married.
November 22, 1769, .Anne Rlake. daughter of
Jedediah Blake, of Hampton Falls. He died
May 3. 1798. Children: i. Dorothy, born in
Kensington. January 9, 1772, married Samuel
Dow. of Xortbwood. Xew Hampshire. 2. Fbc-
nezer. born June 14. 1773. 3. Henry, born
June 14, 1775. 4. Moses, bom .April 25. 1777;
mentioned below. 5. Xewell, born July 15,
1779- ^- Polly, born October 29, 1781 : mar-
ried Ebenezer Sinclair, of Monmouth, Maine.
7. P>etsey. born June 16. 1784. married William
Graves, of Hartland. Maine. 8. .Ann. born
April 28. 1786, married. June 23. 1813. Moses
Dow, of Epping. 9. James, born June 11,.
1790. 10. John, born September 14. 1792.
(\'l) Moses Sanborn, son of Henry San-
born C5). was born in Epping. Xew Hamp-
shire. April 25. 1777: moved to Wales. Maine.
PTe was a farmer all his active life. He mar-
ried. March 18. 1801. Xancy Fogg, daughter
of Maior Josiah Fogg, of Raymond. Xew
Hampshire. .She was born July 11. 1770. and
died February 23. 1838. He rlied .April 12.
1852. Children: i. Clarissa, born July 18,
1802, married Parker Dow, of St. .Albans.
Maine. 2. Sarah, born June 9. 1804. 3. Henry,
born Fehruarv 18. 1808; mentioned below. 4.
Dudley F.. born Dcceiubcr 5, 1820.
f\ H) Henry .Sanborn, son of Moses San-
born (6 (.was born in Epping. Xew Hamp-
shire. February 18. 1808. He went to Maine
with his father's family and followed farming
at Wales and Greene. Maine. He married.
January 22, 1834, .Ann Grossman Daly, who
was born in Wales, .Maine, .April 9, 1812. She
died in Eewiston. Maine. He died Julv 14.
1864. Their only child : James Solomon, men-
tioned below.
( \ 111) J ames.SoIdnion Sanborn, son of I lenry
Sanborn, was born in Wales. .Maine. .March
29. 1833. His youth was .spent in Wales and
Monmouth. Maine, and in Xashua. New Hamp-
shire, and he received the education of the tlis-
trict .schools of that time. He began his busi-
ness career as traveling salesman for the seed
house of .A. H. Dunlaji, of Nashua, .\ew 1 lamp-
shire, and for a nuiuber of years be proved his
ability as a commercial traveler to the satisfac-
tion of his employers and to his own advantage.
His first venture on his own account was in
Lewiston. Maine, where he went into the coffee
and spice business. In 1868 he became con-
nected with the firm of Dwinell. Ilavward &
Comi)any. of P.oston. dealers in cottee and
spices. The firm nf Chase & .Sanborn was
formed in 1878 and the greatest success has
attended the firm from the outset. The coffees
and teas prepared for the market by this con-
cern have a world wide reputation. At the
World's Fair in 1893. the firm supplied the
coffee for all the restaurants upon the grounds.
Mr. Sanborn made his home in .Somerville,
Massachusetts, in 1872, and except for the
period of five years from 1884 to 1889 in Bos-
ton, lived the remainder of his life in Somer-
ville, and in Poland, Maine, where he had a
summer home. His stables at Elmwood were
famous. He i)aid s[)ecial attention to breeding
French coach horses. In 1897 he became |)art
owner and manager of the Alaiiir !â– (inner, a
weekly newspaper that has been well known in
Xew l-'ngland for half a century. Mr. San-
horn loved nature and traveled extensively in
.America and Europe. He visited the countries
that produced coffee and spices, the West Indies,
Mexico, and Central .\merica. He was a splen-
did type of the .American business man whose
success was won by his own native ability,
resourcefulness and endeavor. He was ener-
getic and persevering, of high character and
broad mind. He died .May 10. 1903.
At the time of his death the SniitrrTillr Jour-
nal ^a'u\: "The firm of Chase & Sanborn was
formefl in 1878 and the successfid history of
that frrni is too well known to ref|tn"re any
comment. .A (lartnership is a phase of active
life, which nr)t only tests the business ability of
men. t)Ut also their temperaments, and no man
was ever hapiiier in his relations with those
associated with him than was the late Mr. .San-
born. He was a great, big-hearted, big-brained
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man, and not only believed that honesty was
the best policy, but made it a cardinal principle
of his life, because he believed that it was right.
Any suggestion of fraud or deceit in business
in a direct or indirect manner was always
promptly condemned. He would succeed only
along honest and legitimate lines, and never by
precept or example did he ever depart from
this rule. He never envied the succcess of
others, and only desired to secure success such
as his brains and his industry and his honesty
entitled him. His temperament was one of
those happy combinations of good cheer and
sunshine which made association with him
ahvavs a pleasure, and gave those who came in
contact with him in his daily life that comfort
and encouragement which makes men better
fitted to cope with their daily trials.
"He was a helpful, kindly nature, and he
seemed to realize always that the best deeds of
a man's life, and those which give him the most
satisfaction are those occasions where he has
helped those that are poorer and weaker than
he is. His whole career was lightened and
brightened all the way along by constant deeds
of kindness, with substantial aid wherever it
was required. Those who knew him intimately
were always inspired by his example, and found
joy and comfort in following his lead. * * *
"For thirty years he had been a resident of
Somerville, and among the pleasant, associa-
tions of his later years, none were dearer to
him than his friendships formed in his early
acquaintance in Somerville. In his leisure
moments he was found at the fireside and in
the library. * * *
"With a deep love for the New England
farm and the scenes of his early boyhood, Mr.
Sanborn jnirchased several years ago an old
homestead antl estate in Poland, Maine, which
had been converted into a fine stock farm, not
to be duplicated in America. His reputation
for growing high-class road horses, French
coaches, has attracted many visitors to Elm-
wood through the summer seasons. Here Mr.
Sanborn has enjoyed recreation from business
duties, which leisure time he had richly earned.
Meanwhile the active duties of his department
in the firm were transferred to his two sons.
Charles E. and Oren C, who have been care-
fully trained and are thoroughly conversant
with the business."
In his funeral address. Rev. Charles L.
Noyes, pastor of the Winter-hill Congrega-
tional church which Mr. Sanborn attended in
life. said, in part: "Without any endowment
but his native strength, he rose out of the ob-
scurity of the humble circumstances and the
little town where he was born, to enter the
great movements and encounter the eager com-
petition of our times. By his natural mag-
netism and ascendency he gathered about him
a notable array of persons with those talents
he was able to combine his own. In an age
when a splendid material prosperity has been
the glory of our country, he took conspicuous
share in the commercial enterprise which has
contributed to the wealth and power and com-
fort of the times in which we live. Emerson
has said: 'It is the privilege of any human
work which is well done to invest the doer
with a certain haughtiness.' It is his way of
saying that a man's work raises him into a
true aristocracy. There is such an aristocracy
of honorable and useful workers growing up
in our democratic land, and if there are ranks
in it of higher and lower, he must stand among
the foremo.st, whose work has been done on
sound and wholesome principles, and with
results of national importance and extent.
Strength, that tribute cannot be denied to him
of whom we speak. But it has been said,
'Oh, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it lilte a giant.'
"We have seen men who have controlled great
affairs, have built up great enterprises, but
have done it by overriding other personalities,
crushing other interests, making all things bow
to their will and minister to their emolument.
Now, those who have had any relations with
Mr. Sanborn, even the most superficial, most
of all those who have had to do with him inti-
mately, must be well aware of the fine, friendly
sjiirit with which he dealt with other men — his
respect for others' personalities, his sense of
their rights and capacities. The spirit of co-
operation was strong in him. He recognized
that truth of nature set forth in the ScriiJtures
in the figure of the body and its members. He
knew that his individual success lay in union
with all the other members, in business, or
political or social body, and his greatest joy
was in a success in which others contributed
and sliared, each according to his merit and
aptitude. This it is which has enabled him.
together with other social traits of heart and
mind, to live and work so many years in part-
nership with his equals, only with increasing
mutual respect and affection. Those who have
been his juniors and subordinates had found
him all the time more desirous to bring out
their jinwers, push them forward to success,
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make them share in the prosperity and power
of the concern, than to profit liimself by their
labors. His pride in his business, if 1 may
judge by liis way of S])caking of it in conver-
sation, was rather in the men and their char-
acter and ability, than in the profits and fame
it had brought him. What was true in the
matter of his business was true in every other
activity of his, as neighbor, as patriot of his
state and country. Everywhere he was like a
great current of force pouring in its full charge
into any channel open for him, finding most
satisfaction and joy when thus he was able to
help on others, better mankind, bring new life
and pleasure to anyone.
"Yes. the first impression, ever deepened by
larger acquaintance, was of the rugged strength
and splendid force of his personality. Hut
there is something greater than that, on which
we all agree : it is our sense of respect for his
moral character. From all sides I hear this
unanimous acclaim, that it was the strong,
steadfast purpose of this man to do things
honestly, truthfully, justly, honorably, sc|uarely.
He had a large magnanimous, open spirit. 'He
was honest,' one has recently said, 'not because
he believed honesty was the best policy, though
he did believe that and proved it, but it was his
nature, his satisfaction to be honest.' He loved
things honest, just, pure, of good report, as he
hatedthe small, mean, low, underhanded, hypo-
critical, wherever he met it. His morality was
not merely that negative kind which avoids
evil, but a great positive passion for good,
which he wanted to see prevail in all tilings.
'He was always working to make things better.'
This was as true of his recreation as of his
work. He had large unselfish interests and
ambitions. In his business he had an ideal that
it should be as honorable as it was successful,
that it should raise the credit and tone of all
business. He meant his native state should be
better that he was born in it and raised stock
in it. He meant this city of ours should profit
by his residence here. His presence and sup-
port was never wanting in any movement that
he believed for the aflvantage of the city. H
he gave liberally, as he always did to any object
that j)roved itself worthy to his mind, it was
in no careless or vain spirit, but he wished that
church and association and charity, and the
people through them, might be the better,
stronger, more useful, for his contribution of
money. * * *
"There is love in our hearts for one whose
heart was large, generous, tender, compassion-
ate. This gentle side of his nature was not
always expending itself in words, but it was
always ready to the call of need or friendship.
We should have to read the secrets of many
lives to know of all the persons, who, in their
hour of misfortune, or even failure or fault,
had been set back on their feet, or steadied
and braced, by some encouraging word, faith-
ful help, or substantial gift from .Mr. Sanborn.
Xo one could ever go to him in behalf of a
good cause, or another person in need, that he
(lid not respond to such an appeal with gener-
osity and eagerness as if it were a favor to be
informed how to put his means to good use.
With the swiftness which the light flows from
the *un to things that grow by its power, his
he!]) would run to the places and person'5 |)roved
worthy of his aid. And all his generosity, of
which there is no full earthly record, grew out
of his natural kindness, together with that
feature of his character of which I have spoken,
a desire, as far as he could 'to make things
better,' to put an end to distress and pain and
discomfort, to e(|ualize comfort and happiness
in our human lot, to help the distressed and un-
fortunate, and make the world a j)lace where
all might share more evenly in the common
bounty of wealthy Nature.
"There are those who have known Mr. San-
born long and intimately, and been allowed a
glimpse into his sacred inner motives, who
could tell something of w'hat he was to his in-
timate friends and kindred. The best things
that can be said of any worthy man are too
personal and sacred ever to be said. Our first
and holiest duties we owe to our own flesh and
bl(X)d. .Xnd in this kind of piety, which binds
us to l)e kind and true and loving, to those
whom Ciod has knit to us by the closest bonds,
was the beginning of religion for this man.
And though we must here pass by with
veiled faces, yet in our time and day, when
men are so ambitious to find their sphere and
their interest in more public spheres and neglect
the home, or lightly break its ties, it is good for
us to pause and, at least, by our silence, to pay
our respect to this side of the nature of this
strong successftfl man of the world.
"1 venture as the pastor of this church, the
minister and friend of Mr. Sanborn for so
many years, to bear testimony that I believe
he was essentially a religious man. He was a
man of reverence, a man of faith — faith in
goodness, faith in good men, faith in God.
* * * We stand in silent reverence over
powers used to such pood purpose, over a life
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spent so heliifully, over a battle fought so
bravclv. May God give us strength to follow
on !"
Mr. I'rank L. Dingley wrote of Mr. San-
born: "The tinest talent is the most rare and
it commands the highest reward. The late
Tames S. Sanborn, of the firm of Chase &
Sanborn, of Boston, rose from the ranks. He
forged ahead in virtue of what was in him,
subject to self-development, not in virtue of
anything done for him by inflence, or by pull.
He was his own architect, his own builder of
fortune. His executive gift was his genius.
Integrity of character was the inspiration of
his gift for organizing and for executing. He
never betrayed a friend. He was wholesome,
genial, strong in body and mind. A great
originating merchant, he leaves behind him a
legacy of unique values in memories and in
friendships, as well as in fame and service, as
an indu.strial founder.
"Wherever New England enterprise is
known — and the world is its open book — there
the name of James S. Sanborn is a household
word, there his generosity, his kindliness, his
many-sided and unostentatious service are
recognized. Starting at the foot of the ladder
and climbing, rung by rung, Mr. Sanborn's
heart went out to all who showed the real stuff
or moral courage and intellectual power.
Many's the struggling lad, worker, and student
whom he has helped so unobtrusively that the
secrets between his right hand and his left hand
were scripturally maintained. The merchants
of Boston have achieved nobl}' for the city, the
state, and the nation, and none more worthy
has joined the great majority than James S.
Sanborn. What he has done for his native
state in its varied interests of stock raising and
of agriculture is well appreciated. The i)laces
where his first struggles began will miss him:
the place where his struggles were crowned
with victory will miss him. Success is indeed
successful when built on the foundations of
intelligence, grit, zeal, loyalty, integrity and
comradeship. That is the tribute which those
who knew liim best will tmanimously pay this
great merchant, this noble citizen, this self-
made man — James S. Sanborn."
Mr. .Sanborn married. November (•>. 1856,
Harriet X. Small, who died la-bruary 9, 1901,
(laughter of Captain John and Sarah ( Moody)
Small, of .\uburn, Maine. Their children: i.
Helen Josephine, born October 6, 1857; living
in Somerville, umuarried ; author of ".A Winter
in Central .America." 2. Charles Edgar, born
April 29, iSHo; married, .\ugust i, 1887, I'"lor-
ence Blazo : he died January 2/. 1905 ; he was
a member of the firm of Chase & Sanborn, and
buyer for the coffee department. 3. Oren
Clneney, born October 6, 1865; married, June
I, 1886, Lorena Armstrong, of Machias, Maine,
resides in Winchester, Massachusetts; is con-
nected with the firm of Chase & Sanborn : chil-
dren : i. James Oren, born in Somerville. March
10, 1891 ; ii. Helen Elizabeth, born in Somer-
ville. May 2, 1897; iii. Caleb Chase, born in
Winchester, May 18, 1899: iv. John Arm-
strong, born in \Vinchcster, August 2, 1901. 4.
Georgie Dunlap, born in Lewiston, Maine, De-
cember 20, 1867, married, February 17, 1897,
Edward Sands Townsend, of Boston, born in
Chelsea, in 1869; resides in Brookline, Massa-
chusetts ; children : i. Charles Edward San-
born, born in West Medford, May 7. 1898: ii.
Xewell Colby, born in Newton Centre, August
27, 1902; iii. Clara Gary, born in Newton
Centre, February 22. 1905: iv. Edith, born
November 25, 1907.
( IX ) Helen Josephine Sanborn, daughter of
fames Solomon Sanborn, was born Octo-
ber 6, 1857. She attended the public schools
of Eewiston. Maine, and Somerville, gradu-
ating from the high school in 1873. She enter-
ed the State Xormal school at Salem and was
valedictorian of the class of 1879. She taught
school for four terms at Concord, Massachu-
setts, and won the commendation of the school
committee of the town for the excellence of
her work. The annual report of the Concord
school committee for 1879-80. referring to
Miss .Sanborn, said : ".\t Nine .Acre Corner,
th.c scliool has had a better attendance. .\n
excellent teacher has here been doing a good
work. She would, of course, be able to do
much better work in a graded school." Miss
.Sanborn was offered a position as teacher in
the Emerson .School at Concord but she chose
to go to college instead. She entered WcUesley
in 1880, and was graduated in 1884 with the
degree of Bachelor of .\rts. During the winter
of 1885 she traveled in (."entral .America and
Mexico with her father, and gathered her
material for the book, ".A Winter in Central
America," which was published in 1886 by Lee
and Sliejiard of P>o.ston. In 1888 she made
the Euro]iean tour with a Wellesley College
partv. visiting England, 1 lolland, Belgium,
.Switzerland. France. Germany, and other
l)oints of mtcrest abroad.
In [893 she made the voyage to the Mediter-
ranean coimtries. in company with her father.
She went abroad in 1904 and again in 1905,
when she visited Iceland, Norwav and North-
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ern Europe. She wrote a series of articles on
"Travel" from her point of view and experi-
ence. She has written another series of articles
on "Child Study." a subject in which as a
trained teacher she takes a special interest. In
1890 she was elected a member of the school
board of the city of Somerville, a position she
filled faithfully and efficiently for three years,
declining re-election from both the Republican
and Democratic parties. For seven years,
from 1S93 to 1900. she was president of the
Hillside Club, the only woman thus honored.
She is a charter member of the lleptorean
Club. She joined the Winter Hill Congrega-
tional church in 18S4, antl has been active in
the work of that society. She organized the
Daughters of the Covenant, a missionary
society, of which she has been president since
June. 1895. S'^^ ^^'''* appointed treasurer in
1903 of the College I.eague in the interests of
the International Institute for Girls in Spain.
This is the first and only college for women in
that country. She is also a director of the cor-
poration in charge of the college. She is also
a member of the Boston Authors' Club. In
June. 1906. she was elected to the board of
trustees of her alma mater. W'ellesley College.
(For first s^ipration see preceding sketch).
( II ) Joseph, .son of John San-
S.WI'iOR.V born, was born in Hampton,
.\ew Hain|jshire. March 13.
1659, and lived in iIam|)ton I'alls. on the farm
now or lately occui)ied by his descendant. Sarah
Sanborn. lie married. December 28, 1682,
Mary, daughter of ("aptain Rflward Gove, of
Hampton. She married ( second ) Mor-
rill, of .Salisbury. Joseph Sanborn gave much
of his property to liis .sons before his death,
which occurred between 1722 and 1724. Chil-
<!ren: I. .\bigail, born .April T. 1686; married.
October 7. 1703. Kbenezer Dearborn. 2. Hul-
dah. born May 3. 1688: married. October 17,
1705. Jonathan Xason ; died October 7. 1758.
3. Reuben, twrn May 18. 1692. 4. Edwartl,
born .-\pril 7. 1695. 5. Abraham, born March
10, 1696. 6. .Mary, born July 28. 1697; mar-
ried Samuel I'rescott : died May 28, 1757. 7.
Joseph, born July 22, 1700. 8. Davifl. men-
tioned below.
(Ill) David, son of Joseph .Sanborn, was
born January 16. 1702. in Hampton Falls. He
served in 1722 under Major John Gilman. He
removed to Barnstead, where his will is dated
June 7, 1775. He inherited land from his
father in Chester, but sold it. He died January
16. 1777, at Shaker X'illage, in Canterburj',
Xew Hampshire. He married, March 2, 1727,
.\bigail Ciliddin, who died at Shaker \'illage,
January 15, 1805. He anil his first son were
ba])tized the same day in 1728, at Hampton
I'alls. Children: i. Eilward, dieil young. 2.
Jeremiah, died young. 3. David, died young.
4. Elizabeth, baptized in Hampton Falls, May
(1. 1733 : married John .Mudgett. 5. John, ba])-
tizeii .\i)ril 6, 1735, died j'oung. 6. David,
baptized 1737. died young. 7. Edward, bap-
tized .\pril I, 1739. 8. .\bigail, bajnized 1 741 ;
died yoiuig. (). Jeremiah, born June 27. 1744.
10. John baptized .\ugust 24, 1745: mentioned
below. I I. Joseph, baptized January 10, 1728.
( 1\ I jolm (2), son of David .Sanborn, was
baptized .August 24, 1745, in Hampton Falls,
and was killed in tlie revolution. He enlisted
.April 15. 1777. in Captain Morrill's company.
Colonel Stark's regiment, and again in 1778
for three years. He lived in Barnstead, and
signed the Test there. He married Hannah
Eastman. Children: i. Reuben, born .March
12, 1773. 2. Mary, born October 3, 1774;
married (first) .Moses W. Rand; (second)
May iC), 1817. Josei)h Kimball. 3. John, men-
tioned below.
(\') John (3), son r)f John (2) Sanborn,
was born March 2. 177'''. in I'.arnstead. He
lived at first in Barnstead, but removed early
to Lower Gilmanton, Xew Hampshire. In
1795, his father being dead, Ezekicl Eastman
of f?arn.stead was a])pointed guardian of the
minor son. John Sanborn. He died I'ebruary
(). 1859. He married I first ) Hannah, daughter
of John Ilodgdon. of liarnstead; (second)
May 10. 1827. Mrs. .Sally .\very. Children:
I. Jeremiah, born .May 2, 1806; mentioned
below. 2. .Mahala. born .August 20, 180S; mar-
ried William .Marston ; died 1856. 3. William,
br)rn June 16, 181 1 : died unmarried. 4. .N'ancy
.M . horn May 5. 1814; married John L. Lonl.
5. John Hodgdon, born .\ugust 19, 1821 ; died
unmarried. 6. Hannah Hodgdon. born Un-
vember 6, 1827: married Sanniel B Wedge-
wood. 7. Sarah, born .September 16, 1832;
married July 4, 1856, Dyer J. Merrill.
(\1) Jeremiah, son of John (3) .Sanborn,
was born .May 2, 1806. in Barnstead, New
Ham()shire. and died February 14. 1890, in
Epsom. Xew nain|)shire. He settled in liarn-
stead. but soon removed to London, Xew
I iampshire. where he had a farm. 1 le married
(first) December 30, 1826. Xancy Ann Sin-
clair Pickering, of Barnstead, born February