1. Kate Sanborn was an American author, teacher and lecturer.
18 Facts About Kate Sanborn
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Also a reviewer, compiler, essayist, and farmer, Sanborn was famous for her cooking and housekeeping.
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Katherine Abbott Kate Sanborn was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, July 11,1839.
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Kate Sanborn's father was the educator Edwin David Sanborn, who occupied the chair of Latin and English literature, at Dartmouth College, for nearly fifty years, In 1859, he accepted the Latin professorship and presidency of Washington University in St Louis, returning four years later to the chair of oratory and literature at Dartmouth, which he held until he retired from active work.
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Kate Sanborn's mother was Mary Ann Sanborn, daughter of Ezekiel Webster, of Boscawen, New Hampshire.
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Kate Sanborn was a descendant of Captain Ebenezer Webster, the Revolutionary hero, and grand-niece of Daniel Webster.
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Kate Sanborn was educated at home by her father almost entirely, though tutors in mathematics were employed for her.
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Kate Sanborn was obliged to commit to memory some portion of prose or poetry daily, and to describe something in writing.
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Kate Sanborn inherited a love for teaching, and began that employment in her father's house, then went with him to St Louis, Missouri where she taught in Mary Institute, at a salary of per year, of which she was very proud.
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Kate Sanborn lectured in public on literary history and allied subjects.
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Kate Sanborn's lecturing career, which last for 20 years, began in the drawing room of her friend Anne Lynch Botta.
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Returning, Kate Sanborn began teaching in New York City, and lecturing, first in Edith Minturn Stokes's parlor, till, outgrowing it, she moved to rooms of the Young Women's Christian Association, and finally to those in Dr Howard Crosby's church, speaking to large audiences there.
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Kate Sanborn was the originator of Current Event classes in many of the literary clubs, which became common in many cities of the United States in the form of Current Topics classes.
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Kate Sanborn wrote over 40 lectures, but among her best-known works were Adopting an Abandoned Farm, and Abandoning an Adopted Farm, Witty Records of her original ideas regarding farming, which she put into practice upon an abandoned farm which she purchased near Boston.
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Kate Sanborn was instrumental in gathering and publishing a valuable historical work on New Hampshire.
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Kate Sanborn lived with her sister, Mrs Paul Babcock, at Montclair, New Jersey, or in New York, some part of each winter; but her home was at Breezy Meadows, in Medway, Massachusetts, where she "adopted" an abandoned farm, which later she deserted for a farm only a short distance beyond it, on the opposite side of the road, where she settled down to agriculture, hospitality, and authorship.
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At Breezy Meadows, Kate Sanborn was delighted to entertain her friends in large sunny rooms, with books everywhere.
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Kate Sanborn was the first president of New Hampshire's Daughters, an association of women born in New Hampshire, but living in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.