Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — TELEPHONE KING DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TELEPHONE KING DEAD.

John I. Sabin, Manager of the Pacific States Company. John I. Sabin, manager of the Pacific States Telephone Company, died suddenly in San Francisco after

a week’s illness. Until a short time ago Mr. Sabin was president and general manager of the Chicago Telephone Co., having come from the Pacific coast where he had built up the great Pacific

States Telephone system. He was born in New York, Oct. 3, 1847. After six months he became an operator and during the years 1864 and 1865 he was In the United States army, following his trade. At the close of the war he returned to the Western Union, with which he remained until 1877. With the invention of the telephone he became superintendent of the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company on the Pacific coast. He soon consolidated all the small telephone companies and afterward formed the Pacific StatoaJielephone and Telegraph Company.

JOHN I. BABIN.