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[From Hist. of Gage Co, NE, by Hugh J Dobbs, Lincoln: Western Publishing and
Engraving Co, 1918, p 913-915] Robert W Sabin is one of the best known and most
highly respected citizens of Gage County. He came to Beatrice from IL in Aug,
1878, and has since maintained a continuous residence here. He found Beatrice
an overgrown village of two thousand inhabitants, while all Gage Co. contained
less than 12 thousand. He has seen the county expand to more than 30 thousand
and Beatrice develop from a mere western village into a modern city of twelve
thousand people. Mr Sabin was born in a log cabin in Knox Co, OH, near the city
of Mount Vernon, 9 Feb 1850. When he was but eighteen months old his parents
moved from OH to McLean Co, IL, and located on a farm near the city of
Bloomington, where his early life was spent. When opportunity offered he
attended the country schools of his neighborhood, and by the time he attained
his majority he had acquired a good common-school education. He then entered
the IL State Normal School, located at Normal, a suburb of Bloomington, and
later he attended Wesleyan College, graduating from the law department of that
institution in the class of 1877. In November of that year he opened a law
office at Minonk, Woodford Co, IL, where he continued in the practice of his
profession for ten months. He then came to the rising city of Beatrice, in
search of fortune and professional distinction. Here he engaged in the general
practice of the law and developed into an excellent trial lawyer. During his
forty years' practice at the bar of Gage County he has successfully transacted
a very large volume of legal business, both civil and criminal. His practice
has extended to all the courts of the state and to the federal courts, and on
account of his abilities as a lawyer commanded the respect of the courts and of
his professional associates. In 1883 Mr Sabin was elected district attorney of
the old First judicial district, which then comprised the counties of Nemaha,
Richardson, Johnson, Gage, Jefferson, Saline, Thayer, and Fillmore, and he
discharged the duties of his office with great credit to himself and to the
satisfaction of the public at large....Mr Sabins successful trial record gave
him a standing at the bar as trial lawyer of which any attorney might feel
justly proud. Since 1883 he has been counsel for one side or the other in a
large number of criminal cases in the Gage County courts, including sixteen
murder trials. In 1892 Mr Sabin was elected county attorney of Gage County, and
he served one term in that important office. He has held also the office of
city attorney of Beatrice for six years, and in all of these positions he has
acquitted himself as a lawyer of marked ability. Mr Sabin's parents were David
and Rhoda (Williams) Sabin. His father was of pure English stock, his ancestry
reaching back to the puritans of New England. He was a physician by profession
and was also a farmer and a preacher. He was a man of great energy. For his
preaching he took no pay, holding that a man who made a daily living otherwise
than by preaching ought not to charge for filling the pulpit on Sunday. He was
a great reader and a deep Bible student, and for many years he carried on an
active practice as a physician, at the same time farming extensively. Robert W
Sabin's mother was of Scotch-Irish stock. Her great grandfather, Ebenezer
Williams, was a Revolutionary soldier and fought with great credit in that war
for human liberty. She was a literary woman and took time from her household
duties to read good and instructive books. Dr & Rhoda Sabin were the parents of
eleven children, the subject of this sketch being their ninth child. Two of
their four sons were physicians and two lawyers. In the mother's family there
were several lawyers; one brother, Robert E Williams, for whom Mr Sabin was
named, was a distinguished member of the bar at Bloomington, IL. On 14 Feb 1878
Mr Sabin married Miss Mary Louise Carlock, who had been born and reared in the
country near Bloomington, IL. Six months after their marriage this young
husband and wife came to Beatrice and immediately become factors in the social
life of the city. They have for many years been active members of the Christian
Church of Beatrice and are much esteemed for their social and neighborly
qualities and worth of character. Six children have been the fruit of this
marriage, of whom five are living, two sons and three daughters. The elder son,
Ralph L Sabin, is married and lives in Washington, DC. The younger son, Robert
L Sabin also is married and he lives in Kansas City, MO. Both are active and
prosperous business men. Gertrude , the oldest daughter, is the w/o Earl M
Marvin, publisher of the Beatrice Daily Sun. Louise, the second daughter, is
the w/o Dr F W Buckley, of Beatrice, who recently went to France as a surgeon
in the American expeditionary army, and when last heard from was at Verdun;
Hazel, the youngest daughter, is at home with her parents. Mr & Mrs Sabin live
in a pleasant home at the corner of Seventh and Grants streets, and they are
here spending the afternoon of their lives, surrounded by their family and by
their friends who are tried and true.

See book, NE: the Land and the People. volume 3

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