By Muriel Bristol | September 8, 2024
Abram Sanborn was born in Tamworth, NH, September 12, 1821, son of Daniel and Lydia (Cushing) Sanborn.
Abram Sanborn married (1st), January 24, 1843, Mary Harriman. She was born in Eaton, NH, July 27, 1824.
(The known children of Abram and Mary (Harriman) Sanborn were: Mary R. Sanborn (1844-1925), Hiram Wayland Sanborn (1846-1923), Edgar Sanborn (1849–1864), and Frank W.M. Sanborn (1853–1925)).
Daughter Mary R. Sanborn was born in Sanford, ME, August 14, 1844. Son Hiram Wayland “Wale” Sanborn was born in Sanford, ME, October 7, 1846.
Son Edgar Sanborn was born in Ossipee, NH, June 3, 1849.
Father Daniel Sanborn died of lung fever in Tamworth, NH, October 22, 1850, aged seventy-five years.
Son Frank W.M. Sanborn was born in Ossipee, NH, September 2, 1853.
Abram Sanborn, a harness maker, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary Sanborn, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), Mary R. Sanborn, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Wayland Sanborn, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Edgar Sanborn, aged twelve years (b. NH), and Frank Sanborn, aged seven years (b. NH). Abram Sanborn had real estate valued at $600 and personal estate valued at $338.
Son Edgar Sanborn enlisted for three years in Co. D, of the 6th NH Infantry Regiment, in Portsmouth, NH, December 16, 1863. He claimed to be eighteen years of age, when he was actually fourteen years of age. He was carried on the muster rolls as a harness maker, aged eighteen years (b. Ossipee, NH), standing 5′ 5¼” tall, with hazel eyes, light hair, and a light complexion.
The 6th NH Infantry Regiment played a role in the Army of the Potomac’s Overland Campaign or Wilderness Campaign in 1864. Private Edgar Sanborn was wounded in action in the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, and died of typhoid fever while in the Fairfax Seminary Hospital, in Alexandria, VA, July 30, 1864.
Post-Mortem Records of the Continued Fevers. – Cases in which the Diagnosis, Typhoid, is more or less sustained by the Clinical History. – Case 30. – Private Edgar Sanborn, Co. D, 6th N.H.; age 15; was admitted July 24, 1864, with feeble and frequent pulse, great heat of body, dry brown tongue, sores on teeth, slight diarrhoea and great tenderness in the right iliac region. On the 28th his face became dusky and stupor supervened. He died on the 30th. — Act. Ass’t Surg. A. H. Haven, Fairfax Seminary, Va. (Find a Grave, 2013).
Mary (Harriman) Sanborn died in Milton, August 8, 1869, aged forty-five years.
Abram Sanborn, a harness maker, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Frank Sanborn, at home, aged sixteen years (b. NH), and Elizabeth Bacon, a housekeeper, aged forty-nine years (b. NH). Abram Sanborn had personal estate valued at $915.
Thos. J. Whipple, attorney-at-law, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), headed a Laconia, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Henry Smith, a laborer, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Sarah A. Leavitt, a domestic, aged forty-four years (b. NH), George Leavitt, aged ten years (b. NH), and Mary R. Sanborn, a housekeeper, aged twenty-five years (b. ME). Thos. J. Whipple had real estate valued at $10,000 and personal estate valued at $3,000.
Abram Sanborn married (2nd) in Somersworth, NH, August 8, 1871, Marie E. (Abbott) Gilman, he of Ossipee, NH, and she of Great Falls, NH. He was a harness maker, aged forty-nine years, and she was aged thirty-five years. Rev. J.F. Smith performed the ceremony. She was born in Ossipee, NH, May 5, 1937, daughter of Solomon and Dorcas H. (Chick) Abbott.
Son Hiram W. Sanborn married (1st) in Dover, NH, November 27, 1871, Hattie A. Yeaton. George T. Wentworth, J.P., performed the ceremony. She was born in Lebanon, ME, in 1852, daughter of Charles and Sarah C. “Sally” (Fernald) Yeaton.
Abraham Sanborn divorced his wife, Maria [((Abbot) Gilman)] Sanborn, [both] of Ossipee, NH, in Carroll County Superior Court, in April 1873. He alleged extreme cruelty (one had to allege something).
Son Frank W. Sanborn married in Moultonboro, NH, February 10, 1874, Josephine Woodman, he of Ossipee, NH, and she of Laconia, NH. He was a harness maker, aged twenty-one years, and she was aged eighteen years. Rev. Hayes Lougee performed the ceremony. She was born in Sanbornton, NH, December 20, 1855, daughter of William S. and Mary A. (Fox) Woodman.
Son Hiram W. Sanborn appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1876, as a harness maker, with his house at 13 Elm street.
Abram Sanborn married (3rd) in Milton Mills, December 25, 1877, Mary E. (Estes) Jewett, both of Milton. He was a harness maker, aged fifty-five years, and she was aged fifty-five years. Rev. D.B. Scott performed the ceremony. She was born in Berwick, ME, in January 1822, daughter of James and Joanna A. “Annie” (Hardison) Estes.
Abram Sanborn, a harness maker, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary [((Estes) Jewett)] Sanborn, aged fifty-seven years (b. ME). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Asa A. Fox, a carpenter, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and Francis J. Busch, Jr., works in woolen mill, aged twenty-four years (b. MA).
Thomas J. Whipple, a lawyer, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), headed a Laconia, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included Mary R. Sanborn, a housekeeper, aged thirty-six years (b. ME), his servant, Emma Collins, a servant, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), Augustus Clark, a farmer laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. VT), Chandler McLoughlin, a farm laborer, aged twenty-three years (b. ME), his son-in-law, George R. Somes, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), his daughter, Belinda C. [(Whipple)] Somes, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), and his daughter-in-law [granddaughter], Gesty W. Somes, at school, aged eleven years (b. NH).
Wale H. Sanborn, a harness maker, aged twenty-nine years (b. ME), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Hattie [(Yeaton)] Sanborn, keeping house, aged twenty-four years (b. ME), and his boarder, Charles Lord, works in harness shop, aged twenty-three years (b. NH). They resided on North Pine Street.
Frank M. Sanborn, a harness maker, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Sanbornton, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Josephine [(Woodman)] Sanborn, house keeping, aged twenty-four years (b. NH).
Son Hiram W. Sanborn appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1880, as a harness maker, at Franklin square, with his house on N. Pine street.
NEW ENGLAND NEWS. A heavy shower, accompanied by high winds, passed over Lake Winnepiseogee yesterday afternoon, damaging boats along the shore, and several parties offshore narrowly escaped with their lives. The steamer Lady of the Lake, when half a mile out from Wolfeborough, at 3.30 o’clock P.M., discovered a boat capsized and men clinging to the sides. The steamer hove to and promptly launched a lifeboat, but the waves and the headway of the steamer caused the boat to swamp. Another boat was lowered and the two men were picked up in a nearly exhausted condition. One of the rescued parties was Abram Sanborn of Milton Mills, N.H. (Boston Evening Transcript, July 28, 1880).
Abram Sanborn was elected as Milton Town Moderator for two years, 1881 and 1882. He was preceded in that office by E.W. Plummer and was succeeded by Luther Hayes. (See Milton’s Town Moderators – 1804-1883).
MILTON. Town meeting passed with but very little excitement. Officers elected are as follows: MODERATOR, Abram Sanborn; TOWN CLERK, Chas. H. Looney; SELECTMEN, Henry B. Scates, David Wallinford, Elbridge W. Fox; TREASURER, Ira Miller. Voted to purchase a safe for the benefit of the town. Voted to build a road to the new mill, which will be done as soon as the weather will permit. OLD HUNDRED (Farmington News, March 25, 1881).
Son Hiram W. Sanborn appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1882, as a harness maker, at Franklin square, with his house on Broadway street. He appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1884, as a harness maker, at Franklin square, with his house on Hill street.
Son Hiram W. Sanborn appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1886, as a harness maker, with his house on Hill street.
Abram Sanborn was entered on the Civil War pension roll, August 6, 1890, as the dependent of his late son, Edgar Sanborn, who had died while serving in Co. D, of the Sixth NH Infantry Regiment.
Son Hiram W. Sanborn appeared in the Dover, NH, directories of 1891, and 1892, as a carriage strap manufacturer, with his house at 13 Hill street.
Daughter Mary R. Sanborn was certified as a Notary Public, in Laconia, NH, February 10, 1891.
Daughter-in-law Hattie A. [(Yeaton)] Sanborn of Dover, NH, made her last will November 16, 1891. She devised $1 each to her her mother, Sarah C. Blaisdell of Lebanon, ME; her sister, Ella M. Gerrish, wife of Freeman Gerrish of Great Falls, Somersworth, NH; her sister, Sarah E. Blaisdell, wife of John B. Blaisdell of Greenwood, ME; and her half-sister, Georgie Burgess, wife of John A. Burgess of Berwick, ME. She devised all the rest and residue to her husband, Hiram W. Sanborn, whom she also named as executor. John Kivel, H. Cates, and Fred W. Kelly signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 107:292).
Daughter-in-law Hattie A. (Yeaton) Sanborn died, probably in Dover, NH, January 1, 1892, aged forty years. Her last will was proved in a Probate Court held in Dover, NH, February 2, 1892 (Strafford County Probate, 107:293).
LOCALS. Miss Mary Sanborn of Laconia is visiting her brother Frank, and is quite ill. She is a notary public and is employed most of the time in an insurance office (Farmington News, March 4, 1892).
Daughter Mary R. Sanborn attended the anniversary celebration of William W. and Luella M. (Corson) Fuller of Farmington, NH.
LOCALS. Miss Sanborn, notary public, Laconia, visited her brother, Frank Sanborn, the first of the week, and was present at the anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Fuller, Monday night (Farmington News, November 4, 1892).
Son Hiram W. Sanborn married (2nd) in Dover, NH, February 7, 1893, Ella B. Pinkham, both of Dover, NH. He was a harness maker, aged forty-two years, and she was aged thirty-six years. Rev. J.P. Sheafe performed the ceremony. She was born in Northwood, NH, August 9, 1852, daughter of William B. and Harriet (Pillsbury) Pinkham.
Son Hiram W. Sanborn appeared in the Dover, NH, directories of 1895, and 1898, as a carriage strap manufacturer, at 13 Hill street, with his house also at 13 Hill street.
Mary E. ((Estes) Jewett) Sanborn died from a fractured hip in Milton Mills, June 27, 1899, aged seventy-seven years, and five months. W.E. Pillsbury, M.D., signed the death certificate.
Son Hiram W. Sanborn stood bail for accused bank embezzler Harry Hough in October 2, 1899. Hough would pled nolo contendre in Concord, NH, October 10, 1899, and was sentenced to five years in jail. (Hough would be released May 2, 1905, would witness Sanborn’s last will September 2, 1916, and die in New York, NY, January, 19, 1917).
HOUGH ARRAIGNED. Harry Hough, the former treasurer of the Cocheco Savings bank and assistant cashier of the National bank, Dover, was arraigned before the supreme court there Monday, on the indictments found against him by the grand jury, one charging him with embezzling $3500 from the Savings bank and for the alleged larceny of $5500 from the National bank. The arraignment occurred in the judges’ room before convened, only himself and counsel the state attorneys and Clerk Durgin being present. Hough pleaded not guilty on each count and was held in $3500 on the first count and $10,000 on the second. His bondsmen on the first count are Hiram W. Sanborn and Mrs. Almira Morrill, his mother-in-law. The sureties on second count are his mother, Mrs. Ralph Hough, and Mrs. Almira Morrill. No time has been set for trial, bonds read “At the call of the court.” In the meantime, it is expected Hough will appear before the United States supreme court which convenes in Concord this week. Should it come to pass that he is sentenced by the United States court it is more than probable that the State’s cases against him would be dropped entirely (Portsmouth Herald, October 3, 1899).
Abram Sanborn, a harness maker (retired), aged seventy-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his daughter, Mary R. Sanborn, aged fifty-five years (b. ME). Abram Sanborn owned their farm, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Hannah Stevens, a home keeper, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH), and Dorothy Lord, a home keeper, aged seventy-one years (b. ME).
Hiram W. Sanborn, a harness maker, aged fifty-two years (b. ME), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-five years), Ellen [(Pinkham)] Sanborn, aged forty-two years (b. NH). Hiram W. Sanborn owned their house at 13 Hill Street, free-and-clear.
Frank M. Sanborn, a harness maker, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-six years), Josephine [(Woodman) Sanborn, aged forty-four years. Frank M. Sanborn owned their house, with a mortgage. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John W. Page, a day laborer, aged fifty-eight years (b. GA), and William C. Meikle, a blanket finisher, aged fifty-six years (b. Scotland).S
Son Hiram W. Sanborn appeared in the Dover, NH, directories of 1900, 1902, and 1909, as a carriage strap manufacturer, with his house at 13 Hill street.
Abram Sanborn died of heart insufficiency in Milton, April 13, 1902, aged eighty years, seven months, and one day. He was a widowed harness maker. He had resided in Milton Mills for thirty years, i.e., since circa 1872, with his previous residence having been in Ossipee, NH. W.E. Pillsbury, M.D., signed the death certificate.
DOVER DOINGS. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram W. Sanborn are preparing to leave here Thursday for Florida, where they will spend the winter, as has been their custom during the past few years (Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, NH), November 17, 1909).
Freeman D. Stevens, a cutter (shoe factory), aged sixty years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills”) household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his servant, Mary R. Sanborn, aged sixty-six years (b. ME). Freeman D. Stevens owned their house, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John W. Page, own income, aged sixty-seven years (b. GA), and Benjamin Hoyle, own income, aged sixty-seven years (b. England).
Hiram B. Sanborn, own income, aged sixty years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of eighteen years), Ella B. [(Pinkham)] Sanborn, aged fifty years (b. NH). Hiram B. Sanborn owned their house at 13 Hill Street, free-and-clear.
Frank M. Sanborn, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-six years), Josephine [(Woodman)] Sanborn, aged fifty-four years (b. NH).
Son Hiram W. Sanborn and his wife, of Dover, NH, were passengers on the steamer Ontario, when it caught fire off Montauk Point at the eastern tip of Long Island, NY, April 8, 1912. The ship’s passengers were taken off and landed in New London, CT (Fall River Globe (Fall River, MA), April 9, 1912).
Son Hiram W. Sanborn of Dover, NH, made his last will, September 2, 1916. He devised $100 to the Trustees of the Evergreen Cemetery in Berwick, ME, to fund perpetual care for his cemetery lot, in which his first wife, Hattie A. [(Yeaton)] Sanborn, was buried. He devised all the rest and residue of his estate to his wife, Ella B. [(Pinkham)] Sanborn, whom he also named as executor. Harry Hough, William F. Howard, and Alfred T. Proctor signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 155:434).
Son Hiram W. Sanborn appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1917, as a carriage and auto strap manufacturer, at 13 Hill street, with his house also at 13 Hill street.
Mary R. Sanborn, aged seventy-five years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Her household included her boarder, Freeman D. Stevens, aged seventy years (b. NH). Mary R. Sanborn owned their house in Milton Town, with a mortgage. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Robert Page, a barber (owner), aged forty-three years (b. NH), and Frank S. Weeks, a physician (medical), aged forty-eight years (b. ME).
Hiram W. Sanborn, a harness maker (shop), aged seventy-one years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Clara [Ella] B. [(Pinkham)] Sanborn, a stitcher (shoe shop), aged sixty-eight years (b. NH). Hiram W. Sanborn owned their house at 13 Hill Street, free-and-clear.
Frank M. Sanborn, a harness maker (shop), aged sixty-six years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Josephine W. [(Woodman)] Sanborn, aged sixty-four years (b. NH). Frank M. Sanborn owned their house, free-and-clear.
Son Hiram Wayland Sanborn died of diabetes mellites at 13 Hill Street in Dover, NH, September 14, 1923, aged seventy-six years, eleven months, and seven days. He was a married manufacturer of auto and carriage straps. He had been resident in Dover, NH, for forty years, i.e., since circa 1883, with his previous residence in Somersworth, NH. E.C. Perkins, M.D., signed the death certificate. His last will was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Dover, NH, October 2, 1923 (Strafford County Probate, 155:435).
Daughter-in-law Ella B. Sanborn appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1924, 1926, 1928, and 1929, as the widow of Hiram W. Sanborn, with her house at 13 Hill street.
Daughter Mary R. Sanborn died of arterio-sclerosis at the Strafford County Farm in Dover, NH, January 26, 1925, aged eighty-two years. She had been there six months, with her previous residence in Milton.
Son Frank W.M. Sanborn died of apoplexy in Ossipee, NH, March 3, 1925, aged seventy-one years, six months, and one day. He was a married harness maker.
Josephine [(Woodman)] Sanborn, a widow, aged seventy-four years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Her household included her boarder, Lewis Robinson, a gate tender (railroad), aged fifty-four years (b. NH). Josephine Sanborn rented their house at 45 Summer Street, for $17 per month. They had a radio set.
DOVER, N.H. Mrs. Ella B. Sanborn of this city has returned from Long Beach, Cal., where she spent the winter. While on the way home she visited the Century of Progress Fair at Chicago (Portland Evening Express (Portland, ME, August 16, 1933).
Daughter-in-law Ella B. (Pinkham) Sanborn died in Northwood, NH, March 23, 1939, aged eighty-six years, seven months, and fourteen days. She was a retired widow. Alfred D. Mihachik, M.D., signed the death certificate.
Dover, N.H. Mrs. Ella B. Sanborn, formerly of this city, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. J.W. Steward in Northwood N.H., Thursday. Mrs. Sanborn was born in Northwood, Aug. 9, 1852, but lived the most of her life in Dover. Funeral services will be held at the home of Mrs. Steward, Sunday afternoon, at 2 o’clock (Portland Evening Express (Portland, ME), March 25, 1939).
Josephine [(Woodman)] Sanborn, aged eighty-four years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Her household included her lodger, Llewellyn C. Robinson, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), and her housekeeper, Nellie Hodge, a housekeeper (private family), aged sixty-nine years (b. NH). Josephine Sanborn owned their house at 45 Summer Street, which was valued at $2,250. She had resided in the same house in 1935.
Daughter-in-law Josephine (Woodman) Sanborn died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Rochester, NH, April 15, 1942, aged eighty-six years, three months, and twenty-five days. She was a widowed housewife. Percy C. Grigg, M.D., signed the death certificate.
Mrs. J. Sanborn Dies At Home. After a short illness, Mrs. Josephine Sanborn, 86, widow of Frank Sanborn, died Wednesday at her home, 45 Summer street. Mrs. Sanborn was born in Sanbornton, the daughter of William and Mary Woodman, She resided in Milton Mills for a number of years and came to Rochester 17 years ago. She was an attendant of the True Memorial church. She leaves three nieces, Miss Bessie O’Shea of Laconia, Mrs. Josephine Swaine of Winnisquam, Mrs. Ella Moulton of Groton, N.H. and three nephews, Arthur O’Shea of Laconia, and Roscoe and Clarence Woodman of Sanbornton (Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, NH), April 16, 1942).
Mrs. Josephine Sanborn Buried At Milton Mills. Services for Mrs. Josephine Sanborn, 86, widow of Frank Sanborn, were held yesterday her home, 45 Summer street, she died Wednesday after a short illness. Rev. Leland L. Maxfield, pastor of the Community church, which Mrs. Sanborn attended while she resided at Milton Mills, officiated. The burial was in the family cemetery at Milton Mills. Bearers were William Adolph Daverio, Preston Chapman and City Councilor C. Wesley Lyons (Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, NH), April 18, 1942).
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Find a Grave. (2013, July 3). Pvt. Edgar Sanborn. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/113286127/edgar-sanborn
Find a Grave. (2013, August 17). Frank M. Sanborn. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/115611175/frank-m-sanborn
Find a Grave. (2016, June 16). Hattie A. Sanborn. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/165142338/hattie-a-sanborn
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