doctors at lincoln's bedside

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(09-08-2014 03:21 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Dr. Samuel A. Sabin wrote a letter to his wife on April 15 saying he went to the President's box after Lincoln was shot but that he did not go to the Petersen house because he did not want to be called as a witness.

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Samuel A. Sabin.—The first surgeon of the Ninth New York Heavy Artillery (date of enlistment at Palmyra, Aug 23, 1862; mustered in Sept. 9); was born on Sep 20, 1830 to Samuel Sabin and Elizabeth Gleason in Ontario, N. Y. (the 5th of 12 children), and had the educational opportunities of the town and of Walworth Academy, until he entered the medical department of Michigan University, where he was graduated in 1857. Coming back to New York state, he began to practice in Macedon, soon came to Palmyra, and thence went into the army. 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 (discharged Jan 11, 1865) and resumed his profession in Palmyra. He never regained its old-time vigor, and fell an easy prey to pneumonia, dying April 3d, 1871 in Palmyra; is buried there. His widow Frances Ellen Flower Sabin resided and died on June 21, 1910 in Rochester.