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 SABIN

SACKET

SABIN, DwJght May, senator, was born on a farm near Marseilles. La Salle county, 111., April 25, 1843; the youngest son of Horace C. and Maria E. Sabin; grandson of Jedediah Sabin, of Huguenot and Scotch descent, who shared in the original Roxbur\^ grant, owning a large farm in Windham county. Conn., which had descended to him from the earliest pioneers. His father, who had settled in Illinois, returned to Windham, Conn., in 1857. Dwiglit M. Sabin attended Phillips academy, Andover, Mass.; served in the Federal array for three months in 1863, and then engaged in farming and lumbering in Connecticut until 1868, when he settled in Stillwater, Minn., in the lumber business and as a manufacturer of railroad cars and agricultural machinery. He represented the twenty-second district in the Minnesota senate, 1872-73, and in the lower house, 1878 and 1881, and was a delegate to the Eepublican national conventions of 1872, 1876, 1880 and 1884, .serving as chairman in 1884. He was a U.S, senator from Minnesota, 1883-89, serving as chairman of the committee on rail- roads. He was married, July 1, 1891, to Jessie Larmon, daughter of Asahel and Susan Slee of Paducah, Ky. He died suddenly of heart failure at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, Dec. 22, 1902.

SABINE, James, clergyman, was born at Fareham, Hampshire, England, May 26, 1774; son of Sarah and Samuel (Beaker) Sabine. He entered the Presbyterian ministry, and was mar- ried, Aug. 19, 1800, to Ann, daughter of Isaac and Rachel (Jackson) Danford of Uley, Glouces- tershire, England. He sailed from London with his wife and seven children. May 6, 1816, and arrived, June 15, at St. Johns, Newfoundland, where he preached until after the two great fires which deva.stated that city. He then removed to Boston, Mass., arriving, July 18. 1818, and there founded the society in Boylston Hall, which later became the Essex Street church, of which he was the first minister. In 1828 he withdrew from the Presbyterian church and took orders in the Pro- testant Episcopal church, being ordained priest in 1830, He w^as the first rector of Grace church, Boston, and in 1830 was transferred to Christ church. Bethel, Vt., where he remained until his death. He is the author of: Ecclesiastical History (1820), and many published sermons. He died in Randolph. Vt., at the residence of his daughter, Oct. 2, 1845.

SABINE, Lorenzo, historian, was born in Lis- bon, N.H., July 28. 1803; son of the Rev. Elijah Robinson and Hannah (Clark) Sabine; grandson of Nehemiah and Mary (Rice) Sabine, and of John Clark, and a descendant of William Sabine, a Huguenot, who came from Wales to Rehoboth,

Mass., in 1643. Elijah Robinson Sabine (1776- 1818) was presiding elder of the Vermont and Rhode Island districts; was the first Methodist to serve as chaplain of the Massachusetts house of representatives, and was taken prisoner by the Britisli during the war of 1812, for assisting in the military hospital. Lorenzo Sabine became book-keeper for the Passamaquoddy Bank, East- port, Me., and engaged as a frontier trader, 1834- 48. He served three terms as representative in the Maine legislature, and afterward as deputy collector of customs. He removed to ^lassachu- setts in 1849; was confidential agent of the U.S. treasury department in relation to the Ashburton treaty in 1852, and was a Whig representative in the 32d congress as successor to Benjamin Thomp- son, deceased, 1852-53. He was also secretary of the Boston Board of Trade, and wrote nine of its annual reports. He was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical society and of the Massachusetts Historical society; and received the honorary degree A.M. from Bowdoin in 1846, and from Harvard in 1848. He is the author of: Life of Com. Edward Preble, in Sparks's American Biography (1847); The American Loyalists, or Biograpldcal Sketches of Adherents to the British Cnncn in the Revolution (1847; 2d. ed., 2 vols., 1864); Reports on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas, for the U.S. treasury department (1853); Notes on Duels and Duelling, u'ith a Pre- liminary Historical Essay (1855; 2d. ed., 1856), and Address on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Major-GeneralJames Wolfe (1859). He died in Boston, Mass., April 14, 1877.

SACKET, Delos Bennet, soldier, was born at Cape Vincent, N.Y., April 14, 1822. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy, brevet 2d lieutenant in the 2d dragoons, July 1.1845; served in the military occupation of Texas, 1845- 46, and in the Mexican war, 1846-47, and was brevetted 1st lieutenant. May 9, 1846. for gal- lantry at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He was promoted 2d lieutenant, 1st dragoons, June 30, 1846, and 1st lieutenant, Dec. 27, 1848; was assistant instructor in cavalry tactics at the U.S. Military academy, 1850-55; was promoted captain, 1st cavalry, March 3, 1855; served in garrison and on the field, 1855-56, and on the board to revise the army regulations at Washington, 1856-57. He was engaged in quelling the Kansas disturb- ances: in the Utah and Cheyenne expedition and in the Antelope Hill expedition, 1857-59; was promoted major, Jan. 31, 1861, and lieutenant- colonel, 2d cavalry. May 3, 1861; and served as acting inspector-general at Washington, D.C., June to August, 1861; as mustering and disburs- ing officer in New York city, August to Decem-