(On the old Corbin homestead on Richville Road)
(aged 73
Jay Spencer CORBIN
Birth 31 Dec 1840
Death 31 Dec 1913 (aged 73)
Burial
Riverside Cemetery
Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
Plot Section D
Memorial ID 25942751 ·
(Riverside Cemetery)
Er ist verheiratet mit Christia 'Ann' Hill.
Sie haben geheiratet am 2. Oktober 1865 in Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, USA, er war 24 Jahre alt.Quellen 3, 5, 7
Kind(er):
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. 279-280 #454 "JAY SPENCER CORBIN (Amasa, William, Joseph, John, Jabez, Clement), "b. Dec 31, 1840. Jay S. CORBIN was educated in the district school and in the larger school of self instruction. At an early age he developed a decided taste for mechanics, and constructed an electric machine at the age of fourteen. At seventeen he began teaching, first in a district school and later in Packard's Business College, New York, and as principal in the Burlington, VT., Business College. He was thus engaged in teaching and lecturing in various cities for eleven years. In 1867 he became an agent for the Continental Life Insurance Co., first at Lancaster, Pa., and later with his brother Amasa as a manager of the general agency at Philadelphia. Later they held a similar position at Philadelphia for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. In these positions Mr. CORBIN's energy, good judgment, and warm-heartedness brought success and approbation.
Mr. CORBIN is an ardent lover of mechanics and thoroughly grounded in its principles and practice; inventor and patentee of many practical, labor-saving devices, especially the "CORBIN Disk Harrow"; manufacturer of his own inventions, which gained a World-wide circulation; retired at fifty-five with enough for a "rainy day"' local capitalist, money-lender, and mine promoter and, finally, so as not to rust out with inactivity, a lumber merchant at three-score and five.
Like most of his family line, Mr. CORBIN is a positive man; an apostle and exemplar of temperance, has opinions and words to express them; marshals his ideas readily and forcefully on the platform, in which he follows the traditional reputation of his kindred; democrat in politics, religion, and social conditions, by inheritance and choice; free-trader, single-taxer, anti-monopolist, and preacher of the equality of opportunity by precept and practice; reform politician and, as such, candidate for lieutenant-governor on the Liberal Democratic ticket of New York state in 1898; a thorn in the side of political heelers, hacks, grafters, and chevaliers of industry; independent of party ties when emergency demands, and, despite his strenuous temperament, with an ear acutely attuned to the cry of want. Such a man is too independent for popular acceptance, too rigid in his views of right and wrong to bend to prevalent prejudices; too confirmed in social equality to do other than battle against special privilege, government by wealth, corporate exactions, and all the multifarious forms through which the earnings of the producer are transferred to the fault of the plutocrat. Such men are needed in a republic to keep our political life on a high level. Mr. CORBIN holds the respect even of those who differ radically from his view. He is a well-known citizen of Gouverneur, N. Y."
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Record for J. S. Corbin/ Ancestry.com
Record for Jay Corbin/ Ancestry.com