Cloudy wet rainy cool damp day. Arose 7 A.M. To college 7:45 A.M. to 12 M. Got hair cut. Studied. Read, played piano etc. supper. Took 6:34 car for Troy. H.H. & I took Agnes and Stella Sanborn to Russell Sage Glee Club Concert. Refreshments. Fine time. Took 11:15 P.M. car home. To bed 12:30 P.M.
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This time I was able to find out who Stella and Agnes Sanborn were. They were apparently twin daughters of a widowed mother, Susan. But though Susan is listed as widowed, her last name is the same as her sister's, Myra, with whom Susan and her two girls lived in 1900 in Michigan, and Sanborn is listed as Myra's maiden name in her marriage record. Could it be that Susan's husband died years before she gave birth to the twins? Or that she and the twins' father were never married? If so, the girls were probably born out of wedlock, as they used to say. I wonder if the Clossons knew that? [Later correction: mother's maiden name was Eaton.]
In 1920, according to the census, the Sanborns lived in Albany. In 1915, according to the New York State census, they lived in Herkimer, a little town between Albany and Syracuse. That must have been interesting to see the Closson twins with the Sanborn twins, all around the same age. I wonder if the Sanborn twins were identical?
