Obit for Jacob Alfred Sanborn (b.1841),Lake City, Wabasha Co. MN - May 1919 - 

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Note: This obituary was taken from the newspaper "The Lake City Graphic".
5/1919

IN HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE - Funeral of Old Resident last Thursday Large 
Attended - Live Here 40 Years. 

Services for the late Jacob Alfred Sanborn were conducted at the home 
Thursday afternoon of last week at 2 o'clock and later at the Swedish 
Baptist church, and was largely attended. Mr. Sanborn was born in Orebro, 
Sweden, Novemeber 22, 1841, and died at his home 221 North Prairie street 
in this city, on Sunday morning, April 27, after a short illness. He was 
married in Sweden 38 years ago to Anna Loise Spangberg, after arriving in 
Lake City and entered the employ of H.A. Young & Co., with whom he 
continued to work as a tailor up to the time of his late illness.

Besides the widow, there survive eight children, Mrs. Jennie Carr and 
Harold Sanborn at home; H.A. Sanborn, Saginaw, Minn.; Mrs. B.F. Fowler, 
Two Harbors, Minn.; Mrs. M.B. Harkness, Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. E.C. York and 
Miss Anna Sanborn, Winlock, Wash., and Dr. L.T. Sanborn Minneapolis. Five 
grandchildren also survive.

Rev. A. Olson, of the Swedish Baptist church officated, assisted by Rev.
C.H. Milelr of the Methodist church. Interment was made in Oakwood 
Cemetery.
 The deceased had been an active member of the Baptist church for more 
than 25 years.

Lake City Graphic, Lake City, MN - May 1919