Victor Channing Sanborn [SEP] father
Victor Channing Sanborn
Victor Channing Sanborn (April 24, 1867 – January 13, 1921) was an American genealogist whose documentation of the Sanborn line and other genealogical studies continue to be reliable source material.
Early years.
Victor Channing Sanborn was born in Concord, Massachusetts to Louisa Leavitt and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, and was named in honor of the poet Ellery Channing. He was prepared for college in the public schools of Concord, graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, but due to poor health was
Channing, into his home, where Channing subsequently died in 1901. Although the Sanborns' second son, Victor Channing Sanborn, was engaged in real estate for a living, he wrote frequently about his father and authored a book researching their ancestor Thomas Leavitt's origins.
Biography Death and significance.
Frank Sanborn died February 24, 1917, after being struck by a railroad baggage cart during a visit to his son Francis in New Jersey. He was buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord near the graves of his friends and