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Sabin, Alvah

clergyman, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1793, in Georgia, Vt. He served ten years in the Vermont state legislature; was secretary of state for Vermont in 1841, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1857.

Sabin, Chauncey Brewer

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Aug. 6, 1824, in Oneonta, N. Y. In 1873 he was elected a representative in the Texas state legislature, and in 1874 was appointed postmaster at Galveston, which office he held until 1883. In 1884 he was appointed United States district judge for the eastern district of Texas.

Sabin, David D

merchant, banker, legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1830, in Chenango, N. Y. He was a member of the Iowa state legislature from the fiftyninth district. He is a successful merchant and banker of Belvidere, Ill..

Sabin, Dwight May

soldier, manufacturer, state legislator, United States senator, was born April 25, 1844, in Marseilles, Ill. He moved to Minnesota in 1868 and in 1870 was elected a state senator, and was re-elected in 1871. He served several terms as a representative in the state legislature, became president of several large manufacturing companies, and was elected a United States senator from Minnesota for six years from March 4, 1883.

Sabin, Elijah Robinson

evangelist, author, was born Sept. 10, 1776, in Tolland, Conn. He was a methodist evangelist of New England, and the author of The Road to Happiness; and Charles Observator. He died May 4, 1818, in Augusta, Ga.

Sabin, George M

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 18, 1835, in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He moved to Nevada in 1868, and practiced law, and in 1882 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Nevada, residing at Carson City.

Sabin, Joseph

publisher, bibliophile, author, was born Dec. 9, 1821, in England.

He was an English publisher and bibliophile who came to America in 1848, and finally settling in New York city, became widely known as a bookseller and collector of rare books. He was the author of The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, with Scriptural Proofs; Bibliotheca Americana; and Bibliography of Bibliographies. He died June 5, 1881, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Sachs, Bernard

physician, author, was born in 1858 in Maryland. He is a physician of New York city, well known as a neurologist, and the author of Nervous and Mental Diseases of Childhood, and many professional monographs.

Sachse, Julius Friedrich

journalist, author, was born in 1842 in Pennsylvania. He is a journalist of Philadelphia; and the author of The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania; and The Genesis of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania.

Sadler, Orin Winslow

doctor of medicine, was born Jan. 2, 1843, in Brewerton, N. Y. He received a thorough education, and attended the Michigan university and the medical department of the Northwestern university of Chicago. He is a successful oculist and aurist of Pittsburg, Pa., and a member of the leading medical bodies of America and Europe.

Sadler, Thomas William

soldier, agriculturist, lawyer, congressman, was born April 17, 1831, near Russellville, Ala.

He was county superintendent of education from 1875 to 1884; and was a presidential elector in 1880. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.

Sadtler, Benjamin

clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 25, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. In 1875 he accepted the presidency of Muhlenberg college, Allentown, Pa. He has published numerous baccalaureate discourses and addresses, including A Rebellious Nation Reproved; and The Causes and Remedies of the Losses of Her Population by the Lutheran Church in America.

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