William Jacob Sanborn
William Jacob Sanborn was born on September 5, 1853, in Keokuk, Iowa, to John E. Sanborn and Rebecca M. Tate. His father was a physician who owned $2,000 of real estate and $1,900 of personal property by 1860. His father was a surgeon in the Union army during the Civil War. The family lived in Taylor, Iowa, until the 1860s, when they moved to Rockport, Massachusetts. By 1910, Sanborn was working as a salesman in Cleveland, Ohio. He married Mary Firmin on March 27, 1914. They moved to Mount Dora, Florida, in the 1920s, and by 1930, they owned a house valued at $7,000. He died in 1941.
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| (2511) | Sanborn, William Jacob | 1853-09-05 | 1941 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (7301) [writer] ~ William J. Sanborn to Luther W. Hopkins, 18 December 1914
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1860, 1870, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Ohio County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, available from Ancestry.com; Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, available from Ancestry.com
