Henry B. Sanborn

Henry Bradley Sanborn was born on September 10, 1845, in St. Lawrence County, New York. His father was Edmund Sanborn and his mother, Harriet White. ==Career==

Sanborn started his career by working for Joseph Glidden's Barb Fence Company in DeKalb, Illinois, in 1864. By 1872, he began purchasing horses on the East Coast to sell them in Denver, Colorado, with his colleague, Judson P. Warner. They established their headquarters in Houston, Sanborn established the Frying Pan Ranch near Bushland, Texas, spanning acres of land in Potter County and Randall County. which lay on his Frying Pan Ranch. Three years later, he acquired the Hutchins House and redeveloped it into a hotel in 1892. Subsequently, Sanborn became known as the "Father of Amarillo." ==Philanthropy==

Sanborn donated acres of land to the city of Amarillo for the establishment of Ellwood Park, in honor of his son. He also donated land for the establishment of St. Anthony's Hospital. ==Personal life==

Sanborn married Ellen M. Wheeler, the niece of Joseph F. Glidden, on February 20, 1868. They had a son, Ellwood, who died at the age of twenty-one. The Sanborns lived in a Kansas City, Missouri, mansion from 1892 to 1902, when they moved to Amarillo and built a large estate near the modern-day Amarillo Civic Center. ==Death and legacy==

Sanborn died on May 19, 1912, in Battle Creek, Michigan. Six years later, the Sanborn Elementary School, also in Amarillo, was named in his honor. ==References==