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David Dickey Sabin
Howard County
A native of the Old Empire state was in the development of this Midwestern country, of which he had been a resident since the days of his young manhood. He was born in the Columbus, Chenango county, New York, December 31, 1830, and was there reared, receiving his schooling and acquiring an acquaintance with the essential details of the mercantile business. As a young man he decided to cast his fortune with that of the then rapidly developing middle west country and came out here to the Rock River valley, locating at Janesville, where he became connected with the dry goods trade. From that place he presently moved to the village of New Oregon, now the city of Cresco, seat of Howard county, Iowa, where he became engaged in the mercantile business and also took a prominent part in local civic affairs, not long after his settlement there being elected to represent that district in the general assembly of the state of Iowa. In 1865, following the close of the Civil war, Mr. Sabin closed out his interests in Iowa and returned to the Rock River valley and at Belvidere, in association with his cousin, P. R. Sabin, became engaged in the dry goods business, the Sabin store at that place being opened for business in February, 1866. In the next year, 1867, P. R. Sabin retired from the firm, selling his interest to H. B. Sykes. Upon his retirement from the dry goods store David D. Sabin gave his attention to his banking and other interests in and about Belvidere and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring December 13, 1909. Mr. Sabin was well known as an exemplary member of the Masonic fraternity and was one of the charter members of Kishwaukee Chapter No. 90, Royal Arch Masons, at Belvidere. He was a most active and helpful factor in church and Sunday school work and for more than forty five years was a faithful member of the Presbyterian church and one of its elders for two decades. He was also at one time Sunday school superintendent and for many years was president of the Boone County Sunday School Association. Mr. Sabin was twice married. On March 26, 1856, he was united in marriage to Miss Frances Maria Avery, daughter of Sidney and Mary (Dickey) Avery of Columbus in Chenango county, New York, and who died at her home in Belvidere in October, 1894. On April 1, 1907, David D. Sabin married Miss Harriet Foote.
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