Dr. Samuel A. Sabin's eyewitness account of assassination

[Linda Anderson]

(05-05-2014 02:49 PM)HerbS Wrote:  Linda,I agree with you about Palmyra.I now live near there in the Victor-Canandaigua area.Your story about Dr.Sabin is fantastic!

Thanks, Herb.

According to Roe, Dr Sabin was born in Ontario, New York and graduated from Michigan University in 1857. He came back to New York and practiced medicine in both Macedon and Palmyra.

"Late in 1864 he suffered from a very severe attack of typhoid fever, which left him in a sadly weakened condition, so much so that he resigned his commission and resumed his profession in Palmyra, but the stalwart form never regained its old-time vigor, and he fell an easy prey to pneumonia April 3d, 1871 dying in the village of his adoption, and is buried there. His widow resides in Rochester."

Maybe Dr. Sabin didn't feel he was in good enough health to follow the President to the Petersen house with all that would entail.

Lt. Col. William H. Seward, Jr., who was Secretary Seward's youngest son, was second in command of the New York Ninth and as Secretary Seward often visited them, "there need be little wonder that the 138th New York early acquired the nickname of "Seward's Pets."