Charles Hamilton Sabin

Charles Hamilton Sabin (August 24, 1868 – October 11, 1933) was an American banker who served as president of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York.

Early life Sabin was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts on August 24, 1868. He was the son of Thomas Sabin and Cordelia Harriett ( Eldridge) Sabin (a daughter of Reuben Eldridge). He had a sister, Caroline W. Sabin of Saratoga Springs, New York. He became vice chairman in 1929 and, after six years as president, Sabin was elected chairman of the board in 1930, and his brother-in-law, William Chapman Potter, was elected president. He remained chairman of the board of the Guaranty Trust Company until his death in 1933. Before their divorce in 1916, they were the parents of son:

Charles Hamilton Sabin Jr. (1902–1986), who married Ruth Ogden, a daughter of Henry Day Ogden of Chatham, NJ, in 1927. They divorced in 1931 and he married Dorothy ( Layman) Ransdell of Washington, D.C., a daughter of Charles A. Layman and the former wife of Dr. Robert C. Ransdell, in August 1931.

After their divorce, Mabel married stockbroker Dexter Blagden in April 1918. Mabel, a founder of the Birth Control League and member of the executive committee of the Margaret Sanger Institute, died at 93 years old at her home overlooking the Shrewsbury River in Middletown Township, New Jersey (a Georgian mansion designed by New York architect Arthur C. Jackson) in 1968.

Second marriage On December 28, 1916, he married Pauline (née Morton) Smith. The divorced wife of James H. Smith Jr., Pauline was a daughter of Charlotte (née Goodridge) Morton and Paul Morton, the former vice president of the Santa Fe Railroad who served as Secretary of the Navy under President Theodore Roosevelt. Her sister, Caroline, was the wife of William Chapman Potter and Harry F. Guggenheim. Caroline and Pauline were nieces of Joy Morton, founder of Morton Salt, and granddaughters of Julius Sterling Morton, who had served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland. In 1918, they built Bayberry Land, a 314-acre Arts and Crafts style country estate in the Shinnecock Hills of Southampton, New York. The house was designed by architects Cross & Cross and the grounds were designed by Marian Cruger Coffin. They were known for entertaining at their homes. They also had an apartment in New York City at One Sutton Place South, and a 1,961-acre plantation, The Oaks, in Goose Creek, South Carolina.

Sabin died in Southampton on October 11, 1933. After a service at St. George's Episcopal Church in Stuyvesant Square, he was buried at Southampton Cemetery. (At his funeral, the honorary bearers were Reeve Schley, Frank L.) Polk, Sheppard Homans, William Chapman Potter, John Walter Cross, Dr. J. I. Russell, Cornelius F. Kelley, D. E. Pomeroy, Charles Blair Macdonald, Henry M. Sage, Edward Shearson and Joseph R. Swan. The ushers were Charles C. Auchincloss, Courtlandt Nicoll, Eugene W. Stetson, Merrel P. Callaway, Harold Stanley and W. H. Barnum. The funeral was attended by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, James W. Gerard, John J. Raskob, Thomas W. Lamont, Percy Lamont, Richard Whitney, George Whitney Jr., Cornelius N. Bliss, Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Wiggin, Myron C. Taylor, George F. Baker, Charles E. Mitchell, Marshall Field. P. A. S. Franklin, Mrs. H. P. Davison, Louis Wiley, Henry deForest, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Watrous, James J. Hawkins, Mrs. H. B. Claflin, William H. Chadbourne, John C. King, Herbert L. Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. G. Hermann Kinnicutt, Louis Clark, Frederick Straus, John W. Davis, Morgan J. O'Brien, Clarence Mackay and Anna Case Mackay, John Mackay. After his death, his widow married Dwight F. Davis in 1936. Davis was the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition and had previously served as the Assistant Secretary of War and Secretary of War.