Kate Sabin

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Kate Sabin Stevens (November 24, 1870 – September 19, 1954) was an educator and the first female regent of the University of Wisconsin.

Kate Lucinda Sabin was born November 24, 1870 in Windsor, Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1893, and served as the superintendent of schools for Dane County, WI, 1894-1897.[1] Governor Robert M Lafollett, Sr. appointed Kate Stevens as the first female regent of the University of Wisconsin, during the university presidency of Charles Van Hise. [2] From 1935 to 1947, Kate Stevens taught weaving at the Craft shop in the Madison Vocational school.[3]

Kate Sabin married E. Ray Stevens on 23 June 1898 in Windsor WI.[4] Mr. Stevens served in the Wisconsin State Assembly, was a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Dane County, and served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. E. Ray Stevens died in 1930. They had three children, Ellen, Myron, and Henry. Ellen died in childhood, and both Myron and Henry became lawyers: Myron practiced law in Madison WI, and Henry became a judge in Phoenix AZ.[5]

Kate Sabin was the youngest of nine children. Her oldest sister, Ellen Clara Sabin was president of Milwaukee-Downer School. After her retirement from Milwaukee-Downer School, Ellen C. Sabin lived with Kate Stevens in Madison from 1931 until her death in 1949.[6]

Kate Sabin Stevens died at home in Madison on September 19, 1954.[7]

References

  1. University of Wisconsin: Its History and Alumni, Ruben Gold Thwaites (1900), p. 803
  2. The University of Wisconsin, A History: 1848-1925, Curti & Carstensen (1949), p. 34
  3. Wisconsin Alumnus, Vol 40, num 4, Summer 1939, Alumni in the World, p 371
  4. Wisconsin: Its Story and Biography: 1848-1913, Ellis Baker Usher (1914), p. 1342
  5. https://www.azcourts.gov/coa1/Former-Judges/HENRY-S-STEVENS
  6. “Two Great Ladies”, Wisconsin State Journal, September 21, 1954
  7. “Rites Wednesday for Civic Leader, Mrs. E. Ray Stevens”, Wisconsin State Journal, September 21, 1954

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