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James M. Sanborn Papers, 1874-1910
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Title: James M. Sanborn Papers
Collection number: 1916
Creator:
James M. Sanborn, Ca. 1840-1920
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 document box and 1 shoebox (.5 linear ft.)
Date: 1889-1910
Abstract: A collection of letters written to James M. Sanborn and his wife Lilia Sanborn. Includes letters from their sons, extended
family, and friends and associates, as well as a ledger and some visiting cards.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
James M. Sanborn and Lilia settled in the city of Alhambra in Los Angeles County, California by the 1890s. James M. Sanborn
was born in Maine circa 1840 and became a dry goods businessman after starting a dry goods business partnership in 1866 with
his uncle, James W. Sanborn, a successful merchant in Port Huron, Michigan. Lilia was a Massachusetts native born in 1845.
The couple married in 1868 and had three sons, George, Charles, and Hugh Sanborn. George, their eldest, worked for the Toronto,
Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Company in Hamilton, Ontario in the late 1890s. Hugh contracted typhus and passed away in Johannesburg,
South Africa in January of 1902. James Sanborn became a fruit grower in the San Gabriel Valley once the family settled in
California. Lilia passed away in 1910.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], James M. Sanborn Papers (Collection 1916). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7155364
Processed by Yasmin Damshenas in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Lilace Hatayama,
January 2012.
This collection consists mostly of letters received by James M. Sanborn and, his wife, Lilia Sanborn, residents of Alhambra,
in Los Angeles, California. These include letters from family residing in Michigan; from their son George who worked with
the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Company in Hamilton, Ontario; updates about their son, Hugh’s, illness and death in
Johannesburg, South Africa in 1902; and condolence notes from friends and family sent to James Sanborn upon Lilia’s death
in 1910. There are also a series of letters sent by relatives touring through Europe in 1903. The cities visited include:
(London, Dresden, Nuremberg, Naples, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Venice and Florence. The collection also contains a ledger and
some visiting cards.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Sanborn, James M. --Archives.