Thomas Parker Sanborn
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Senior Picture, Harvard Class of 1886
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February 24, 1865 Concord, Massachusetts |
| Died | March 2, 1889 (aged 24) Concord, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord |
| Occupation | poet, writer |
| Known for | co-founder of The Harvard Monthly |
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Thomas Parker Sanborn (/ˈsænbɔːrn, -bərn/; February 24, 1865 - March 2, 1889) was an American poet. The eldest son of abolitionist, social scientist, and memorialist of American transcendentalism Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Thomas became a close friend of philosopher George Santayana and was a model for the protagonist in Santayana's only novel, The Last Puritan. With five college friends, Thomas founded The Harvard Monthly.
Thomas Parker Sanborn was born to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn and Louisa Sanborn, née Leavitt, on February 24, 1865 in Concord, Massachusetts in a cottage on the grounds of The Old Manse, within gunshot of the famous battleground. He was named "Thomas" for Henry David Thoreau's friend, Thomas Cholmondeley and "Parker" for Theodore Parker. His schooling began in Springfield but was seriously undertaken only after his family returned to Concord in 1872, where Tom studied in the primary schools and was taught Latin and Greek by his father, who had been charged with educating children of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Horace Mann, John Brown and others of prominence.
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