WI BIO - Dodge Co - SABIN, J. B.

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 594

J. B. SABIN, photographer [Beaver Dam, Beaver Dan Township, Dodge County, 
Wisconsin], was born 17 May 1846 in Walden, Caledonia County, Vermont, and 
came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1866, locating in Sparta [Sparta Township, 
Monroe County, Wisconsin]. He learned his trade with Raymond NIAS, and then 
opened a gallery on his own account in Sparta. In 1876 J. B. SABIN came to 
Beaver Dam and opened a photographic parlor on Spring Street, which he is now 
carrying on with good success.

J. B. SABIN enlisted in 1865 in Company G, 169th New York Volunteer Infantry, 
Colonel ALDINE, and was engaged in the following battles: Fort Fisher, North 
Carolina and battles before Richmond, Virginia, and two or three skirmishes.

On 26 January 1879 J. B. SABIN married [his first wife] Etta DERRINGER [a 
maiden name?]. Etta SABIN died 06 July 1882. On 02 March 1874 J. B. SABIN 
married to [Miss?] Ella EHINGER [his second wife] of Beaver Dam. J. B. SABIN 
has two children: Birney, and Mary.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly