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Marshall Danforth Sanders
Facts and Events
Census: 1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Marshal Sanders
Age in 1870: 45
Estimated Birth Year: 1824
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Home in 1870: Adams, Jefferson, New York
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Adams Center
Roll: M593_944
Page: 34
Image: 70
Year: 1870
Missionary
BIOGRAPHY: The Chad Browne Memorial
Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs
Of a Portion of the Descedants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne
Compiled by a Descendant
Printed for the Family
Edition of Three Hundred Illustrated Copies, of which this Book is No. 209
1888 - Page 118
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REV. MARSHALL D. SANDERS
“He pursued his preparatory studies at the Academy in Williamstown, entered Williams College in 1842, and graduated in 1846. After two years spent in teaching, he entered Auburn Theological Seminary, graduating in 1851. He was ordained at Williamstown, July 17, 1851, and on the 31st of the next October, sailed with his wife from Boston as a missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. for Ceylon, arriving at Madras, India, Feb. 21, 1852. From thence he proceeded to Ceylon, where he was stationed successively at Batticotta, Chavagacherry, Tillipally, and again at Batticotta. In 1859 a Training and Theological School was opened at Batticotta, which was place under his personal charge. In the autumn of 1864, he was granted a leave of absence from the mission, and, with his family, sailed for America, where he arrived July 25, 1865. After a visit of two years, he and his wife returned to Ceylon, leaving their five sons with friends in this country. Mrs. Sanders died at Batticotta of pleurisy, Nov. 2, 1868, in the forty-third year of her age. The following year he returned again to America, for the purpose of raising funds for founding a college at Jaffna.
While in this country he married the second time, and. With his wife, sailed for Ceylon from New York, May 10, 1871, arriving at their destination the fourth of the next July. Eight weeks later, he died suddenly of apoplexy, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 1871.” (Contributed by Dr. J. A. Sanders.)
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