Edwin David Sanborn
Edwin David Sanborn was an American educator.
Biography
Edwin David Sanborn was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire on May 14, 1808. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1832, taught for a year at Gilmanton, studied law, and afterward divinity at Andover [Theological Seminary], and became a tutor and professor of Latin at Dartmouth in 1835. In 1859, he became professor of classical literature at Washington University in St. Louis and principal at the Mary Institute and St. Louis [Country Day School] but in 1865 he returned to Dartmouth as professor of oratory and belles-lettres. In 1880, he assumed the new chair of Anglo-Saxon and the English language and literature. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Vermont in 1859. He was a leader in public affairs in his town and state, and was several times elected to the New [Hampshire Legislature|legislature].He died in New York on December 29, 1885.