(G.S.I.)
(G.S.I.)
John W CORBIN
Birth 7 Jul 1844
Death 10 Aug 1915 (aged 71)
Burial
Rindge Cemetery
Union, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
Memorial ID 90841607
(Rindge Cemetery)
Rev. Harvey M. Lawson, Ph.B., B.D., "History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Clement Corbin of Muddy River (Brookline) Mass. and Woodstock, Conn.", 1905, pp. 287-288 #462 "John WARREN CORBIN (Benjamin, David, Asahel, Benjamin, Jabez, Clement), "b. July 7, 1844, at Union, Tolland County, Connecticut; he was educated at the schools in his native town, one term at Providence, R. I., and two years at the Connecticut Literary Institution at Suffield, Connecticut, from which point he enlisted in the 22d Regt. Connecticut Volunteers, of which his brother David was lieutenant. He went into camp at Hartford, but on account of the serious illness of his father, Frank Walker of Union was secured as a substitute*, answering to the name of J. W. CORBIN, until his death. Mr. CORBIN afterwards taught school,and then was engaged in business for himself in Willimantic and Providence. From that point in 1874 he went to, where he traveled extensively in the interests of the Atlantic Tubing Co. of Providence, going even to St. Petersburg, and making a very successful business and pleasure trip. Later he arranged to travel for the Howe Scale Co. of Philadelphia, with whom he remained for three years. He then took charge of the southern business of the Howe Scale Co. of New York, which position he successfully held for eight years, spending eight months of each year in the southern states.
In 1890 he became interested in the Tompkins Cures of Bright's Disease and Diabetes, and formed the Tompkins Bright's Disease Cure Co., of which he was the manager up to the date of the incorporation of the Tompkins-CORBIN Co, Sep 1, 1900, of which he became President. His present headquarters are at No. 27 W. 24th St., New York City."
Mr. CORBIN has never married. He is a warm friend of his native town of Union, and of the Baptist Church at North Ashford. In 1902 he presented a soldiers' monument to the town, which was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1902, with impressive ceremonies and a large attendance, including many old residents. This monument is unique in paying a just and eminently proper tribute to the mothers who gave their sons to the service of the country, as well as to the surviving soldiers, as the inscription shows:
"Dedicated in grateful memory to the mothers who gave their sons, to the soldiers who gave their lives, and to those who, daring to die, survived the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865."
Source: * Record of Men in the War of the Rebellion, at State Library, Hartford, p. 751; Lawson's CORBIN Genealogy, pp. 187,288
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