{{Short description|American archaeologist and museum director}} {{Infobox person | name = Ashton Sanborn | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|3|13}} | birth_place = Rochester, New Hampshire, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1970|6|22|1882|3|13}} | death_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Somerville Latin High School | alma_mater = Harvard University | employer = | occupation = Archaeologist, museum director | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = Agnes Goldman | children = 1 daughter | parents = George Hobbs Sanborn<br/>Lillian Knight Hodgdon | relatives = Hetty Goldman <small>(sister-in-law)</small> }} '''Ashton Sanborn''' (13 March 1882 in Rochester, New Hampshire, USA – 22 June 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an American archaeologist and museum director. He was the executive secretary of the American Red Cross Commission to Palestine from 1918 to 1919. He went on archaeological expeditions to Egypt in the 1920s. He served as the secretary of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1925 to 1952. He was the editor of the ''American Journal of Archaeology''.
==Early life== Ashton Sanborn was born on March 13, 1882, in Rochester, New Hampshire.<ref name="harvardsanborn">{{cite web|title=Sanborn, Agnes Goldman, 1887-1984. Papers of Agnes Goldman Sanborn, 1752-1984 (inclusive), 1808-1984 (bulk): A Finding Aid|url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00122|website=Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=May 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703042227/http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00122|archive-date=July 3, 2016}}</ref><ref name="vermeuleashton">{{cite journal|last1=Vermeule|first1=Cornelius Clarkson III|title=Ashton Sanborn: 1882-1970|journal=Boston Museum Bulletin|date=1970|volume=68|issue=353|pages=215–217|jstor=4171535}}</ref> He was son of George Hobbs Sanborn and Lillian Knight Hodgdon.<ref name="harvardsanborn"/> His father died when he was six years old, in 1888.<ref name="harvardsanborn"/>
Sanborn was educated at the Somerville Latin High School in Somerville, Massachusetts.<ref name="harvardsanborn"/> He graduated from Harvard University in 1905, where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1908.<ref name="vermeuleashton"/> He was a Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1909 to 1912.<ref name="harvardsanborn"/> He also attended the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1913 to 1914.<ref name="harvardsanborn"/>
==Career== Sanborn was archaeologist Lacey Davis Caskey's assistant from 1913 to 1915.<ref name="vermeuleashton"/> He was also James Loeb's assistant at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.<ref name="vermeuleashton"/> He also taught Latin, Greek and Latin at the Foster School in Litchfield, Connecticut.<ref name="vermeuleashton"/> From 1918 to 1919, he served as the executive secretary of the American Red Cross Commission to Palestine, where he was based in Jerusalem.<ref name="vermeuleashton"/> In 1920, Sanborn was on an expedition to the tomb of Merenptah with Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. and Clarence Stanley Fisher, where they found Pharaoh's throne.<ref name="pittsfoundthethrone">{{cite news|title=Found the Throne Where Pharaoh Sat When Moses Launched the Plagues on Egypt. The Very Room Where the Lord "Hardened Pharaoh's Heart" and the Balcony from Which He and His Queen Threw Gold to Their People Discovered by American Archaeologists.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/145648248/?terms=%22Ashton%2BSanborn%22|access-date=May 31, 2016|work=The Pittsburgh Press|date=August 8, 1920|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration |page=76}}</ref> He served as Dr George Andrew Reisner's editorial secretary from 1920 to 1925.<ref name="harvardsanborn"/>
Sanborn served as the librarian of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1923 to 1925, and as its secretary from 1925 to 1952.<ref name="servicesportsmouth">{{cite news|title=Services Today|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/56626009/?terms=%22Ashton%2BSanborn%22|access-date=May 30, 2016|work=The Portsmouth Herald|date=June 24, 1970|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration |page=11|location=Portsmouth, New Hampshire}}</ref> He served as the editor of the ''Boston Museum Bulletin'' from 1925 to 1952, and later editor of the ''American Journal of Archaeology''.<ref name="servicesportsmouth"/>
==Personal life== 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.<ref name="harvardsanborn"/> They had a daughter, Sarah Sanborn.<ref name="harvardsanborn"/> They resided at 147 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1940 to 1970.<ref name="harvardsanborn"/>
==Death== Sanborn died on June 22, 1970, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<ref name="servicesportsmouth"/>
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