Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-22
SANB0RN'S DUAL LIFE.
A Monster of Dsprayity Who Be-
friendsd Schools and Churches.
HIS AND HIS MISTRESS FORTUNES
Bequeathed to an Academy---His Relatives
to Contest the Validity of
the will.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE INVOLVED.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE INVOLVED.
BosToS, September 2l.-The Journal an.
nounces two will contests soon TO be tried
in the courts which will develop as strange
q story as ever was told Of contradiction in
the character, life and reputation of one
man. Edward s. Ssnborn died September
1 in Boston brothel, of which he had been
master, and three days later was buried in
his native town in Kingston, N. e., whsre 0
splendid monument marks his grave and in
q costly school building paid for with his
money, his marble bust stands side BY side
with that OF the woman who for seventeen
years lived with him openly as his mistress
and his partner in the dreadful business in
which he spent his life. In Boston he was
known as "old Sanborn," the miser, the
ibertine, the corrupter Of youth; in Kings
ton, as Msjor Ssnborn, the liberal giver to
all good objects the supporter of religious
institutions, the founder of an academy for
the education and strict training of boys
and girls.
His ancestors had hsed for generations in
Kingston, where he was born 67 years ago.
Two circumstances the wealth aud social
standing of the family from which be de
scended; his share of the property left by
his father, formerly President OF the Exeter
Bank, was $4,000, and his sister, who still
lives IN Kingston, occupying one Of the
finest residences in the town, is the widow
Of Dr.. Bartlett, grandson of Governor
Bartlett, one Of the siguers of the Decla-
ration Of independence. Thirty years ago
ae began q dual life in which
he persisted until the day he
died He retained his residence in Kingston
and so conducted himself, when before the
Eyes of his fellow citizens that they elected
MIN TO two years to represent them in the
New Hampshire Legislature. In Boston
ne associated himself with people of the
vilest character, and was so Successful that
TWO wears before his death he owned proper
~ worth S25OOO0. With all that he was
such a miser that, even his last days, when
feeble and almost cripple, he would walk
u mile to save car fare. Five years ago
he conceived the idea Of establishing the
most magnificent establishment in the
country, but when he had built the house
his health failed and he was compelled to
et it pass from his hands.
His Partner in Life
About seventeen years ago, when he was
so, he met Julia A. Hilton, then an at
tractive girl of Is, who had come to Boston
from Wells, Me-. and there seems to have
grown up q genuine affection between the
two. Trey lived together until last Apri
when she died, but they never married. She
was his partner in all his enterprises, was
the mistress of the house On Lyman street,
and Of many others of similar character,
and was as shrewd business manager as
be. Their property interests were kept
separate, ard in her will, alter giving small
sums TO her relatives, she made Sanborn
residuary legstee OF her estate, which has
recently been appraised at $4,000. That
Ssuborn' sregsrd for Miss Hilton was sincere
is attested by the fact that he directs in his
will, made in 1853, that she shall be buried
0y bis side 10 the Ssnborn lot a. Kingston,
if she or her friends should so request.
Since her death Sanborn had not been OF
sound mind aud her relatives were, there
tore, enabled to take her body to Maine and
th,re bury it
A Request to Dartmouth.
Sanborn seems to have begun making
plans for the bestoWal of his wealth about
i've years ago. At that time be made a
will giving $4,000 to Dartmouth College
and dividing the residue of his property
between his three sisters their children, and
. ION ofex.Governor Noyes, ten in all But
e was not loug satisfied with this plan.
de said 10 some of his friends that there
yes net much satisfaction in leaving a be-
.Iusst 10 Dartmouth College because the gift
Sculd be mentioned only for day and then,
viih the donor would be forgotten. he pre-
erred 10 do something for his own town aud
{ The same time leave lasting memorial
{ bis name and OF that Of his mistress, for
turing the latter years OF his life be made
no sscre, OF his relations with Miss Hilton.
At about that time too, four yea-s ago, he
became estraDged from his relatives.
During the winter OF 1928 be was very
lick at bis house on Lyman street 1t was
rt ported that he was suffering kom soften
irg of the brain, and it was proposed by
.ome of his relatives to apply for the sp-
pointment OF guarG,su aud 10 have hum
committed 10 the asylum. He wss very angry
and he finally broke off all intercourse with
his relatives ard struck lheir names from
MS will.
The Kingston Academy.
When be determined to found and endow
An academy at Kingston, Miss Hilton en-.
tered eI 3 asiaslieslly into the project, and
together they made Sll the plans for the en-
terprise. Esrly in 1883 be purchased Gne
site of several acres near the centre of the
town, and immediately Segsu the erection
Of O substantial hnildinp The result is ONE