Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Sabin, William Frederickson November 28, 1875 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WILLIAM FREDERICKSON SABIN. For thirty years engaged in newspaper and magazine 
work, principally in Hawaii, Will Sabin was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 28, 
1875, son of William Winterbourne and Genevieve (Blauvelt) Sabin. Schooling in 
England, Maine, New York and North Carolina. First newspaper experience, 
Asheville (N.C.) Morning Call, then New York Recorder. Shipped aboard American 
windjammer, “Great Admiral,” July, 1897, for Newcastle, Australia, via Rio, 
and around Cape of Good Hope. Hiked and freelanced in New South Wales, and 
shipped, as seaman again, aboard American bark “Colusa,” arriving at Honolulu, 
Aug. 14, 1898. Married Mary K. Lane, Honolulu, Jan. 1, 1899. One child, 
Genevieve. Private tutor for some months, joining Honolulu Evening Bulletin 
staff in May, 1899, thereafter, for periods of months or years (on some papers 
several times, as reporter, feature writer, or in an editorial capacity), with 
Honolulu Advertiser, Evening Bulletin, Sunday Bulletin, Hawaiian Star, 
Honolulu Republican. At odd times edited passing weeklies, The Sentinel, 
Promotion, Pacific Prospect, Mirror, Leader, etc. Was associated with H. M. 
Ayres on Volcano, Tropic Topics, and other weeklies. Associate editor, Edward 
P. Irwin’s Crossroads of the Pacific (1911); editor, Hawaii Herald, Hilo 
(1912); correspondent, S. F. Examiner and other mainland papers, at times; 
seven years editor The Service (army weekly), while also otherwise 
engaged. “Columnist,” Honolulu Advertiser, “Look Before You Laugh” (1920-22). 
Editor, Paradise of the Pacific, Hawaii’s illustrated monthly magazine (E. A. 
Langton-Boyle, proprietor), 1914-19, and since March, 1922. Editor, Wela-ka-
hao, Honolulu Advertising Club’s weekly, since April, 1924. Author, “Edge of 
the Crater, and Other Poems” (1915), and much newspaper, magazine and other 
verse, largely on Hawaii. Author, “Hawaii, U.S.A.” (1921), World’s Press 
Congress souvenir.

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