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OLIVER C. SABIN, attorney at law, Saybrook; was born in Knox Co., Ohio, May 19, 1840; his father, Daniel Sabin, was born in Virginia in the year 1809, and married Miss Rhoda Williams (daughter of Abram and Sarah Williams, of Washington Co,, Penn.); in 1851, they moved to McLean Co. and first settled in White Oak Grove, since known as Oak Grove Township, and, in 1865, came to Anchor Township, where they now reside. The subject of this sketch, at the age of 16, started in life for himself unaided, having to earn the means by which he received his education; he first attended Eureka College, Woodford Co., Ill., and, afterward, the State Normal University at Bloomington, remaining there over two years. While attending college, our late civil war having broken out, he went into the army in the capacity of Secretary to Col. L. F. Ross, and, upon his promotion to Brigadier General, acted as his Aid-de-Camp, and also as Southern Agent of the Chicago Tribune, and, afterward, correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat, and subsequently became one of the editors and proprietors of the Memphis Appeal. In 1863, he returned to McLean Co. and studied law in the office of Robert E. Williams, in Bloomington, and was admitted to practice in March, 1864. On Jan. 4, 1864, having married Miss Mary C. Bent (daughter of William E. Bent, of Elgin, Ill.), he practiced law in that city in connection with Judge Sylvanus Wilcox. Having moved to Sedalia; Mo., he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Pettis Co., but, owing to the ill-health of his family, returned to Elgin, Ill., and, in the year 1871, came to Saybrook, where he has since been practicing his profession. His family consists of three children — Rhoda, born Sept. 5, 1870; William B., Aug. 20, 1872, and Oliver C., July 31, 1874. He owns 500 acres of land in this county, valued at $15,000.