Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831–1917) was an American journalist, reformer and man of letters, born at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He settled at Concord, Massachusetts, where he knew Emerson, Thoreau and Alcott, and wrote lives of Thoreau and Emerson.

His occasional verse is represented in Stedman’s An American Anthology (1900) by "Samuel Hoar" and "Ariana".