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Carrie Cook Sandborn - 1843- 1934

The little girl in the doorway,

Carrie was the youngest of 12 children of Thomas and Ann Cook She grew up on the family farm in Point Beach, New Jersey and usually attendeded Manasasquan Quaker Meeting with her father. Both parents are buried in the Manasquan Meeting Burial ground.

The small income the family made from farming was supplimented by taking in borders. When Carrie was 26 she met a bank clerk from New York City, Nestor Sandborn. They both shared an interest in art. Nestor proposed to Carrie after one week promising to help Carrie study art in New York. Their marriage lasted for 64 years. Carrie study at the Cooper Art Institute and opened her own art studio in Brooklyn that lasted for 40 years. Nestor becme an art dealer and later a purchasing agent for the Brooklyn Museum. The Sanborn home became a gathering place for artists and writers of the era. Carrie also taught art at jails and the Friends School in NYC.

In the summers Carrie taught art at the Cook homestead. Whe Robert Louis Stevenson stayed at Brielle at the Union House he would cross the Manasquan River Bridge to visit his friend Carrie Cook Sandborn. The author of the the book about Robert Louis Stevenson's time in Manasquan, Charlott Eaton, is also buried in the Manasquan Burial Ground.
Bob Lane