. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. is through the latters son Joseph, whosettled first in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and laterwent to Norwich (West-Farms), Connecticut; Na-thaniel, Joseph and Lemuel, each of whom was bornin Andover, same state; to Joseph Kingsbury, anative of Enfield, Connecticut, the grandfather ofthe subject of this sketch. He is also a descendantthrough his maternal grandmother of Captain SimonSpalding, who served in the Continen
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. is through the latters son Joseph, whosettled first in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and laterwent to Norwich (West-Farms), Connecticut; Na-thaniel, Joseph and Lemuel, each of whom was bornin Andover, same state; to Joseph Kingsbury, anative of Enfield, Connecticut, the grandfather ofthe subject of this sketch. He is also a descendantthrough his maternal grandmother of Captain SimonSpalding, who served in the Continental Army through the entire struggle for national independ-ence and by virtue of descent from whom thesubject of this sketch became eligible to member-ship in the Society of the Sons of the Sandersons early education was acquired inthe common schools of Towanda and Scranton, atthe Pennsylvania Military Academy and in ProfessorCharles Barkers School at Germantown. His pro-fessional studies were pursued at the Harvard LawSchool, from which he was graduated in 1870, andwith the late Samuel Robb of Philadelphia. Hewas admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, but never. GEORGE S.\NDERSON practised there. After two years of practice inPhiladelphia, he removed to Scranton, Pennsylvania,on account of large interests there, where he hassince conducted a profitable general law business,and is also interested in financial and commercialenterprises. He is a Director of the LackawannaTrust & Safe Deposit Company. In his youngerdays Mr. Sanderson gained an enviable reputationas an athlete. He was a prominent cricketer ofPhiladelphia, having been a member of the FirstEleven of the famous Young America Cricket Cluband represented his club in International entering Harvard he was largely instrumentalin organizing the first successful Cricket Eleven everorganized at the University. While there he repre- UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 7 sented the Eleven in a match against
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