Ashton Sanborn

Ashton Sanborn was born on March 13, 1882 in Rochester, New Hampshire.[1][2] He was son of George Hobbs Sanborn and Lillian Knight Hodgdon.[1] His father died when he was six years old, in 1888.[1]

Sanborn was educated at the Somerville Latin High School in Somerville, Massachusetts.[1] He graduated from Harvard University in 1905, where he received a master of arts degree in 1908.[2] He was a Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1909 to 1912.[1] He also attended the University of Munich from 1913 to 1914.[1]

Sanborn was archaeologist Lacey Davis Caskey's assistant from 1913 to 1915.[2] He was also James Loeb's assistant in Munich.[2] He also taught Latin, Greek and Latin at the Foster School in Litchfield, Connecticut.[2] From 1918 to 1919, he served as the executive secretary of the American Red Cross Commission to Palestine (now known as Israel), where he was based in Jerusalem.[2] In 1920, Sanborn was on an expedition to the tomb of Merenptah with Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. and Clarence Stanley Fisher, where they found Moses's throne.[3] He served as Dr George Andrew Reisner's editorial secretary from 1920 to 1925.[1]

Sanborn served as the librarian of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1923 to 1925, and as its secretary from 1925 to 1952.[4] He served as the editor of the Boston Museum Bulletin from 1925 to 1952, and later editor of the American Journal of Archaeology.[4]

Sanborn married Agnes Goldman, the granddaughter of rabbi Samuel Adler and Goldman Sachs's founder Marcus Goldman; they met in Palestine and married on December 25, 1924.[1] They had a daughter, Sarah Sanborn.[1] They resided at 147 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1940 to 1970.[1]

Sanborn died on June 22, 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4]