Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-13

CALIFORNIA AND COAST.
Judge George N. Sabin'S Death Yes
terday at the Bay.
FATAL MISTAKE OF A HUNTER.
Salvation Army officers Sent to
Prison-An Irrigation Dis
trict Formed-Etc.
FATAL MISTAKE OF A HUNTER.
tsrrc1AI DISPATCHES TO THE nroonD.usIos.l
JUDGE sABIN DEAD.

His Career as a Soldier and Jurist-
His Family History.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12th.-Judge George
M. Sabln, who has been for the past eight
years United States District Judge of
Nevada, died at an early hour this morn
ing at the Palace Hotel, ,.of inflammatory
rheumatism, after a long and severe ILL
ness.
The remote ancestors of Judge Sabin are
supposed to be French, but there is no au-
thentic record going back so far. Family
papers show that the American Sabins set
tied in this country in 1872 Massachus-
etts was the original home and there the
family remained for many generations.
The Judges grandfather was q revolu-
tionary soldier, while in the war of 1912
his father and two uncles took part. The
former was one of the minute men whose
work is so well spoken of in history.
From Massachusetts the family removed
to Vermont, and from the latter State the
Judges father went to Ohio in 1920. The
Judge was born there, and there he was ed.
ucated; be attended school. graduating in
Western Reserve College, afterward study
ing for the law, to the practice of which he
was admitted in Madison, Wis, in 1858.
He practiced there until the war broke out,
when he joined the First Wisconsin Infan-
try. 1t was in the command of General
Patterson and formed part of the Army of
the Potomac. Judge Sabin served from
the beginning to the close of the war. He
was at Shiloh, at Corinth, and the siege OF
Vicksburg, and many other important en-
gagements under General Grant and other
commanders. He rose to the position OF
Lieutenant-Colonel without any other in.
tuence than his own bravery. After the
war he spent couple of years in the South
be then returned to Wisconsin, where he
passed the summer of 1867.
In 1856 he went to Nevada. entered upon
the practice of his profession in Phoebe,
Eureka and other mining towns. In 1870
he was candidate for County Clerk at
White Pine, but was defeated, as the
county was strongly Democratic. In 1871
he went to Phoebe and there formed a
partnership with W. w. Bishop. He prac.
ticed law there until he was appoined bv
the President. July. 1882, District Judge OF
Nevada, succeeding Judge Hillyer. This is
the Ninth Circuit.
The Judge belonged to few societies. He
was member of the G. A. r. and the
Loyal Legion. As a lawyer he gained
eminence through the care showed in
mastering all the details of any case in.
trusted to him. He was painstaking in
the extreme. His arguments were always
characterized by sound logic, and he con-
sidered this better than the use of fiowery
metaphors. In Nevada he had some
OF the most important cases ever tried
there, and the record shows best how they
were handled.
The deceased was unmarried. His only
relative, as near as can be learned, is 8
brother. His sister-in.law was summoned
to his bedside when he was taken sick and
has remained constantly with him.
No time has been set for the funeral
ceremonies.
Judge Hoffman opened the Circuit Court
but transacted only such business as was
compulsory, and adjourned out of respect
to the memory of the deceased Judge. Nc
business of any importance was transacted
in the United States District Court, and an
adjournment was also taken.