SANDERS, ORREN S. – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

ANDERS, ORREN S., M. D., of Boston, Mass., was born in Epsom, N. H., September 24th, 1820, and is the
oldest son of Colonel Job Sanders. After working upon his father’s farm for some years, and subsequently for seven months at the carpenter’s trade, with
Mr. Tasker, of Northwood, he commenced study with the purpose of becoming a physician. By laboring upon the farm, and teaching a part of the time, he
pursued his preparatory studies at the Academies of Gilmanton and Pembroke. When nineteen years of age -nearly ready for college- he commenced the study
of medicine with Hanover Dickey, M. D., in his native town. In the autumn of the same year he tools his first medical lectures at Dartmouth College. He
afterwards studied with Drs. Hays, Chadborne and Buck, of Concord, N. H., and Wheelock Graves, of Lowell, Mass.

     In the fall of 1843, he graduated at the then very popular medical institution of Castleton, Vt. On the
27th of November, 1843, he married his present wife, Miss D. S. Morse, of Effingham, N. H., where he commenced the practice of medicine amid much
opposition. He continued there three and a half years with good success, then removed to Chichester, in the same State, and entered upon a more
extensive practice. After prescribing for five years as an allopath, he became a convert to homœopathy. For this purpose he went to Boston in November,
1848, and remained in the office of Dr. Samuel Gregg nearly eighteen months. Since then he has had a large, lucrative, and highly successful practice,
never regretting that he thus early espoused the Hahnemannian theory.

     With the strictest integrity, and a high sense of the dignity of his profession, his life has been one
of devotion to his calling and the claims of humanity. In 1863, he opened a dispensary in North street, connected with Father Mason’s Mission. He also
conceived the plan for, and subscribed $5,000 to found the Home for Little Wanderers. He has freely given time and money to aid this and other
beneficent institutions, while he has given especial attention to the assistance and encouragement of the meritorious poor.

     By persistent industry and careful economy he has attained to a wide sphere of influence and a large
fortune.

Source : Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By
Egbert Cleave