Archival documents on Henry Palmer Sabin are housed at the Architecture and Design Collection of the University Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB);

Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, c. 1914-1916, where he was in the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity; he also worked as the Assistant Art Director on the student newspaper, The Tech;

Sabin was born in WI and died in Los Angeles County, CA, at the age of 63.

Henry Palmer Sabin's father was Sidney Avery Sabin (born in Rockford, IL); his mother was Stella Eva Palmer (born c. 02/11/1866 in Janesville, WI); they married on 04/10/1890; the Sabin family had become prominent in Pasadena, CA, before Henry Palmer Sabin was born;

Henry Palmer Sabin had one sister, Margaret Frances, and one brother, Gerald Avery;