The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
DEATH TAXES AWAY
JOHN B. SANBORN
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painless and he sank calmly in the
sleep that knows no waking.
Governor Issues Proclamation.
The news of Gen. Sanborn's death
soon became known about the city and
many expressions of sympathy and
coincidence were heard. At the state
capitol Gov. Van SAINT late yesterday
afternoon issued proclamation call
| ing attention to the services of Gen.
Sanborn to his state and nation, di-
fectlng that flags on state buildings be
! placed at half-mast until after the fu-
neral, and closing the state offices to
public business during the hours of the
funeral The remains will lie in state
| IN the governors room from 12 o'clock
noon until 2:30 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon.
The funeral of Gen. Sanborn will be
held from the House of Hope church.
corner of Fifth and Exchange Streets
Of which he was a trustee, at o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. Rev. w. H. W.
Boyle will officiate, and it is probable
that members of the G. A. r., Loyal
Legion, Sons of the American Revolu-
ton, Chamber of Commerce, Mime
sofa club and other organizations with
which he had been affiliated during his
residence in the city will attend.
The honorary pallbearers will be:
Green1eaf Clark, Thomas Wilson, Lu-
Gus +. Hubbard, Moses E. Clapp, Capt.
Peter Berkey, Maj. Thomas P. Wilson,
Charles I'll. Graves, Duluth; Gen. J. H.
Baker, Mankato.
The active pallbearers will be: T. R.
Palmer. HI. w. Childs, E. H. Morphy.
Judge e. A. Jaggard r. E. Maekay, S.
W. Hayes, DR.. Charles Green, Henry
D. Lang.
Rapidly Promoted in Army.
John Benjamin Sanborn came of old
Revolutionary stock, and it is small
Wonder tnat he became major gem
eral by brevet in the Union army dur
ing the Civil war, and that his sue
cesslve promotions from a colonel of
minnesota volunteers to that of a brig
adler general and by brevet a major
general were won strictly on his mer-
it's.
Gen. Sanborn was born Dec. S. 1926.
at EPSON, N. H, his father being
Frederick Sanborn. The family had oe7
cupied the family homestead at EPSON
with its forbears continuously to that
date from period between 1880 to
1852.
The progenitors of the family had
left England as long ago as 1882 on the
ship William and Mary, which landed
at Boston, Mass, June of that wear.
They had settled in Massachusetts and
New Hampshire and some time be-
tween 1870 and 1892 Reuben Sanborn
located at EPSON, N. H., and took a
homestead On this farm the family
continued to reside until some years
after the birth of John BENJAMIN
Sanborn, and it is still in the possess
sion of the family, being Jointly owned
by the estate of Gen. Sanborn and his
nephew, Judge w. H. Sanborn, of this
city. His paternal great grandfather,
Ehphalet Sanborn, was a soldier with
Wolfe In the war against the French
and Indians and also in the ReyoIu-
tionary war. His father was Frederick
Sanborn and his mother was Lucy L.
Sargent, whose grandfather was first
drummer boy and they a soldier in
the Revolution
John B. Sanborn finished his COM
mon school education at EPSON at the
age of sixteen and for the following
SIX years worked on a farm and in the
lumber woods with his father. At the
age of twenty-five he resolved to ADOPT
q professional career, and the whole
current of his life was changed He
prepared himself at Pembroke, N H,
and at Thetford, VT, academies, and in
1851 matriculated at Dartmouth COL
lege, Hanover, N. H., where he spent
year in classical studies.
Began Study of Law.
On the advice of friends who con-
sidered his maturity, he abandoned his
college life at the end of his first years
work and took up the study of law.
entering the law Office of Judge Asa
Fowler, of Concord, N. H, on the ad-
vice OF President Franklin Pierce Ad-
mitted to the bar of the superior court
of New Hampshire at Concord in 1854.
the same year he came to st. Paul and
formed a law partnership with Theo-
dore French.
His long and honorable career in
the Ramsey county bar has seen him
at various times a member Of the
firms of Sanborn & French; Sanborn.
French & Lund; Sanborn & I,und:
Sanborn & King, Washington, D. c.;
John B. & w. Fl. Sanborn until the
elevation Of the junior member by
President Harrison to the United
States circuit court bench, and finally
of John B. & E. p. Sanborn, which
continued until the death of the senior.
Gen. SanbOrn occupied a commanding
position in the bar Of Ramsey county.
being considered an especially sound
and searching lawyer and for many
years he had been considered the Nes-
tor of the local bar.
Shortly after reaching ST. Paul-in
1859-Gen. Sanborn was elected to the
lower house of the Minnesota legisla-
ture, and year later was chosen by a
Ramsey county constituency to rep
resent them in the state senate. In
1860 he was a candidate before the
Republican legislative caucus for Unit
ed States senator and lacked but two
votes of being chosen, the successful
candidate being Morton S. Wilkinson.
In 1872 he was again elected to the
Minnesota legislature and again rep
resented his home city in the legisla-
ture In 1882, his services being signal
lied by his successful efforts to re-
store the state credit by the recogni-
ton and settlement Of the railway
bonded debt, which was then a great
issue in Minnesota politics. He was a
member of the commission to locate
the second state capitol and also Of
the commission when the new capitol
was provided for.
Gen. Sanborn was the first COM
mander of the Minnesota G. A. r, a