Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-15
PROF. ALBERT Il. sABIN.

There are also, IL number of Vermont
ers here engaged i'll teaching III our public
schools and other institutions of learn
ing they are among our most successful
educators. | have mentioned some here
tofore, and now have something to say
about Prof. Albert X. Sabin, who has
been principal of different schools here
for more than twenty years. He was born
at SaXton's river, september 30, 1887. His
father, Elisha StearnS Sabln, Is Il farmer
and still living there ut the age OF eighty
four years is the youngest of four SONS
of Dr.. Levi Sabin. His grandfather Elisha
Sabin, was prominent Freemason ana
was buried in Rockingham. The emblem
attic stone at his grave is visited by many
Freemasons. The greats grandfather was
buried there in 1893. This branch of the
Sabin family came originally from Con
necticut, and were Il part of the Windsor
colony. When Albert X. was young he
worked on the home farm and attended
school. In 1851 he attended Monson
Mass academy, fitted for college, enter.
ed Middlebury college n 1889 and remain
ed three years when accepted cap
tains commission, recNited company III
Addison county, and led ii to the field as
Company c, ninth Vermont Infantry. He
was taken prisoner at Harper'S Ferry :
was paroled and sent to Camp Douglass,
Chicago, and becoming dissatisfied with
camp life he resigned and settled here.
cipal of the Dearborn school, remained as
SUCH two years thence of the Newbury
school five years, then the Franklin school
until the great fire, October 1871, when it
was burned. After the fire he was princl-
pal of the Beverly school and later of the
West Division high school ; thence be-
came principal OF the Lake Forest acade
my for five years, during four OF which
he was superintendent of schools of the
county of Lake. During this time he pre-
pared many young men for entrance into
eastern and other colleges then was APP
pointed to chair in Lake Forest Cniver-
slty, Presbyteran) some of the founders
| of which We're Nermonters, Ezra Warner,
of Sprague, Warner & Co., being one of
the members, he remained there two years,
where he was invited back to Chicago and
accepted the principalship of Il school for
two years, when he was appointed to that
of the Franklin school, the largest in
Chicago, having fortysX teachers and
23O0 pupils, and he holds that position
now. He is an educator of high acquire
ments, scholarship, skill and executive
ability, and has the esteem and confidence
of parents and pupils, and highly honor
able reputation. He is an accomplished
vocal musician and Il tenor singer of eX-
| traordinary powers. Since he has been
here he has led the choir of the Second
Presbyterian church for nine years, and
often sung in concerts aud elsewhere. He
is president of the Chicago Choral society
and the oratorios which have delighted
Chicago listeners with such singers as
Christine Nilsson and Parepa, We're given
under his supervision. He sang solos in Eli
jah, and The Creation on two occasions
when these artists sang His wife is also an
accomplished musician-vocal and instru-
mental--as is his son and only child.
In 1862, Just before going TO the field, he
married Mary Barber, the accomplished
daughter of Edward X. Barber, Il lawyer
politician and at a time itor of II paper
at Middlebury, where he lived, who died
in 1855 at Lake Dunno re the mother in
Chicago in 1865. Mr.. Sabin has three
brothers living George X. is interested
in mining in Colorado the oldest, Elisha
Is a manufacturer at Saxton's River
Robert is a physician and practicing his
profession in Troy, n. Y. His mother
died at the age of so years The only sur
vvors of Edward ID. BARRIERS family are
Mrs. A. r. Sabin and her brother,
EDWARD d. BARBER.
The latter was born in Middlebury In
1887, where he was educated and lived un
til 1862, when he enlisted, in June, In Co
c. 9th Vermont Infantry. He was taken
prisoner at Harper's Ferry, and was
sent to Camp Douglass, exchanged and
went to the front again to Newburn, n.
c., after he was mustered out at Burling-
ton in 1865, he came to Chicago and has
been here since. Previous to the great