SANDERSON, John, attthor, born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1783" died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 April, 1844. He was educated by a private tutor, and began the study of law in Philadelplfia in 1806, but became a teacher, and was subsequently associate principal of Clermont seminary. He went abroad in 1835, and, on his return the next year, became professor of Latin and Greek in the Philadelphia high-school, which post he held until his death. Rufus W. Griswold said of him" " he was not less brilliant in his conversation than in his writings, but he never summoned a shadow to any face, nor permitted a weight to lie on any heart." With his brother, James It. Sanderson{, he published the first two volumes of the " Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence" (Philadelphia, 1820" completed in 7 volumes, by Robert Waln, Jr., and others, 1820-'7 ; illustrated ed., by William Brother-head, 1865). He was also author of a pamphlet in which he successfully opposed the plan to exclude the classical languages from Girard college (1826)" " Sketches of Paris" (1838 ; republished in London, under the title of " The American in Paris," 1838" 3(1 ed., 2 vols., 1848)" and portions of a work entitled "The American in London," which appeared in the "Knickerbocker Magazine."