SANDERS
SANDERS
SANDERS, Daniel Jackson, educator, was
born at Wiimsl.oro. S.<".. Fol). 15, 1S47. His
parents were slaves. He was a stiuleutat Brain-
arJ Institute, Cliester, S.C. ; was graduated
from Westeru Theological seminary in 1874, and
was ordained by the presbytery of Fairfield in
1870. He was pastor at Wilmington, N.C., 1874-
86 ; and was married, Sept. IG. 1!^S0, to Fannie T.,
daughter of George W. and Eliza Price of Wil-
mington. He founded the Afn'co-Ameriean
Pre-tbylerian iu 1879, of wliieh he became editor
and proprietor. In 1891 ho became president of
Biddle university, Charlotte, N.C., an institution
for the education of Negro youths. He was a
member of the General council of Presbyterian
churches held iu Toronto in 1892, also the one
held in Wasliington in 1898, and was repeatedly
a member of the Presbyterian General assembly.
He received the honorary degrees A.M. and D.D.
from Lincoln university, Pa., and D.D. from
Biddle university. N.C.
SANDERS, Frank Knight, educator, was born at Batticotla, Jatliia. Ceylon, June 5, 1801; son of the Rev. Marshall Danforth and Georgiana (Knight) Sanders ; grandson of Anthony and Celinda (Brown) Sanders and of Joseph and Ruby (Hyde) Knight, and a descendant of Chad Brown (1638). He was graduated from Ripon col- lege, Wis., in 1882; spent the next four years as an instructor in JalTna college, Ceylon, and studied Semitic languages and Biblical literature at Yale, 1886-89. taking the degree of Ph.D. in 1889. He was married, June 27, 1888, to Edith, daughter of Morris and Mary Elizabeth (Billings) Blackman of Whitewater, Wis. HewasWoolsey professor of Biblical literature at Yale, 1893-1901, and on Oct. 1, 1901, became professor of Biblical history and archaeology and dean of the Divinity school at Yale university. In 1900 he was elected president of Iowa college, Grinnell, Iowa, which position he declined. He became a member of the American Oriental society, the Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and of the American Archfeological association, and pre- sident ( lSK)3-04) of the Religious Education society. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Ri|)on college in 1900. He is the author, with Professor C. F. Kent, of : TJie Messages of the Ear- lier Prophtts (1898); Tlie Messages of the Later Pz-o/i/jW.* (IHDQ); and co-editor, with Prof. C. F. Kent, of 77t<.' Historical Series for Bible Students (10 vols., 1890); the Messages of the Bible (12 vols.. 189). and the Library of Ancient Inscrip- tioiift (10 vols.. 1903).
SANDERS, Frederic William, educator, was born in Westchester county, N.Y., Jan. 17. 1864; son of Dr. Henry and Frances Clara (Smith) aiuders : grand.son of Henry L. and Barbara (Vaughan) Sanders and of William and Elizabeth
(Scott) Smith. His mother's ancestors were
among the early settlers of New England, but his
father was an Englishman, although he served as
a medical officer in the U.S. army during the
civil war. He was graduated from the College of
the City of New York, A.B., 1883 ; was engaged
as a tutor, editor, government emploj'ee and law
clerk, 1883-87 ; as a law proof-reader, Rochester,
N.Y., 1887-88 ; was admitted to the bar in New
York, 1887, and practised law in eastern Ten-
nessee, 1888-91. He was a student in the Divinity
school of Harvard, 1891-92, receiving the degree
of A.M. upon examination from that university
in 1892 ; was minister of the Unitarian church,
Asheville, N.C, 1892-93 ; subsequently continued
his studies in the University of Chicago, being
graduated, Ph.D., 1895, and was university fellow
in sociology, Columbia university. New York
city, 1895-96. Dr. Sanders returned to the Uni-
versity of Chicago in the latter year, where he
held the position of university extension lecturer
in sociology and pedagogy, 1896-97 ; was lecturer-
elect on statistics and social economics in the
graduate school of the university, 1897 ; was as-
sistant professor, first of pedagogy and then of
European history, and finalh* professor in West
Virginia university, 1897-99 ; and was president
of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts, 1899-1901, officiating also as pro-
fessor of political and economic science. He is
the author of reviews in the Political Science
Quarterly, the American Jouimal of Sociology,
the Journal of Political Economy, 0,1x6. of mono-
graphs and papers on sociological and philosoph-
ical subjects, publislied independently or in
scientific or popular magazines. He resigned the
presidency of the territorial college of New
Mexico and his seat in the territorial board of
education in 1901, traveled in Europe, 1901-02,
and on his return to America in 1902 took up his
residence in New York.
SANDERS, John Caldwell Calhoun, soldier, was born in Tuscaloosa county, Ala., April 4, 1840 ; son of Dr. Charles Peak and Elizabeth Ann (Thompson) Sanders of Ciiarleston, S.C; grandson of William and Martha (Ditmore) Sanders and of Dr. Matthew and Arabella (Keys) Thompson. His paternal grandfather, a native of England, emigrated to Charleston, S.C. His maternal ancestors resided in Anderson district, S.C He was a cadet in the University of Alabama, and was the first member of the student body to leave that institution in 1861 to join the Confederate States army. lie at once volunteered as a private in a military company raised in Greene county, and on the reorganization of this command was elected its captain, assigned to the 11th Alabama regiment, and he was with his company at Seven Pines, Gaines's Mill, and
