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Helen P. Sanborn (1858-1922) was an American educator and civic worker. She served as the president of the San Francisco Board of Education.
Helen Peck was born in Delaware County, New York, on August 23, 1858.
Sanborn was appointed president of the San Francisco Board of Education in December 1920 for a term of one year, but remained a member of the board thereafter. She was devoted to the needs of the city schools and fought for more and better schools. She was actively interested in the Americanization of foreign-born children and the reorganization of the schools.
She was prominent in civic and club life in San Francisco, including the Chamber of Commerce, Parent - Teachers' Association, the Congress of Mothers' Clubs, the Teachers' Association of San Francisco, and the Playground Commission. She helped organize the Travelers' Aid Society and served as its president. She also served as president of the the San Francisco Protestant Orphanage.
Sanborn succeeded in raising thousands of dollars during the war for the Serbian Relief Organization. As a member of the First Congregational Union for Women's Suffrage she also was partly responsible for the vote women in California.
During the Panama Exposition she served as chair of the Women's Board of Managers, having charge of the social side of the exposition.
On September 14, 1882, she married Frederick G. Sanborn (d. 1915, a pioneer businessman of San Francisco, president of the Bancroft-Whitney Law Book Company. They resided in the city for nearly sixty years.
She died in San Francisco, on January 31, 1922, following a heart attack.
References
- ^ "Called by Death. Mrs. Helen Sanborn, educator, who died at her home here early today". San Francisco Bulletin. 31 January 1922. p. 1. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
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- ^ "Mrs. Sanborn (Continued from Page One.)". San Francisco Bulletin. 31 January 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 12 January 2025 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Grant, John P. (1926). Grants and Their Relatives. Fort Orange Press. p. 31. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- "Educator Paid Final Tribute. Helen Peck Sanborn". San Francisco Bulletin. 4 February 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 12 January 2025 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Mrs. Sanborn, Prominent in San Francisco, Dead". Evening Vanguard. 1 February 1922. p. 7. Retrieved 12 January 2025 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.