Descendants Clement Corbin » Amasa Corbin Jr. (1843-1918)

Persönliche Daten Amasa Corbin Jr. 

• Er wurde geboren am 31. Dezember 1843 in Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, USA.Quellen 1, 4, 5

  (G.S.I.)

• Beruf: im Jahr 1880 Life Insurance Agent.Quelle 2
• Wohnhaft:
• im Jahr 1860: Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, USA.Quelle 3
• im Jahr 1900: Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, USA.Quelle 4
• Volkszählung im Jahr 1880, Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, USA.Quelle 2
• Volkszählung im Jahr 1910, Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, USA.Quelle 6
• Er ist verstorben am 18. Februar 1918 in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, USA, er war 74 Jahre alt.Quelle 1

  (G.S.I.)

• Er wurde beerdigt in Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, USA.Quelle 1

  Amasa CORBIN
  Birth: 31 Dec 1843
  Death: 18 Feb 1913 (aged 69)
  Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
  Plot: Section C
  Memorial #: 25942742
  Bio: Joplin Daily Globe, March 4, 1913When Eastern Capital First Poured Into the Southwest Mining DistrictOne Man, Realizing Great Opportunities Here, Organized Syndicates That Invested Thousands - Others Then Followed in Rapid Succession.Eastern capital began to flow into the Joplin mining district in 1897, and it has continued with increasing rapidity ever since. Like a young river after a heavy rain, whose banks can scarcely retain the water as it goes bounding and leaping onward, capital held by men with vast fortunes in the east has been pouring into this district with such satisfactory results that the influx promises to go on unimpeded.What have been the satisfactory results spoken of? This question can be answered best by local men whose money is invested here, and by reason of which they feel the effects of large investments by men unknown in the district and ostensibly unacquainted with its resources and opportunities, quicker than do the men whose money is not placed here and who, therefore, are not as greatly interested in seeing the district prosper.If those men who really know the results of the investment of colossal sums in Joplin ore fields in the last ten years would tell, it would require some time to complete the task.Probably they would first mention the development of the mining industry, which has been unequaled in any corresponding period of time. This has had much to do with the growth of other industries and the growth of Joplin and other cities throughout the district. So it would hardly be reasonable to suspect that some mention of it would not be made by local men, should they be called upon to tell why the district has made progress unexcelled by any other community with equal advantages and opportunities.If they did explain what has been done in a mining way and also the cause of the mining industry development they would tell you of Amasa CORBIN, whose death occurred at the Connor hotel, February 18 last.Mr. CORBIN probably did more for this district after 1897 than did any other man. He not only was responsible for more than $2,000,000 being invested here in that period, but he paved the way for much larger investments. It was what he did that caused eastern men to investigate local conditions. The outcome of the investigations, with but few exceptions, has been the investment of huge sums.Mr. CORBIN's home was in Gouverneur, New York. He did much for that city and other cities in New York, the same as he did for Joplin and other towns and cities in the mining district. For years he was in the insurance business and also engaged as an implement dealer in the Empire state. A brother, J. CORBIN, was associated with him much of the time. They made a success of both businesses through fair and honest dealings and a thorough knowledge of good business methods. In the years they were in business they acquired a wide acquaintance among moneyed men and others.The Joplin associates of Amasa CORBIN do not know what prompted him to come to this district, other than they believe it was a realization of the opportunities to be found. This belief is substantiated by events that transpired after his arrival.He first made the acquaintance of several business men after coming here and told them of his plan, which was to interest eastern capitalists in the mining business to the extent that they would engage in that industry.He succeeded admirably in his endeavors. The first year he was here the district witnessed the purchase o mining leases by eastern syndicates for enormous sums when compared with those that had been paid formerly. The prices paid for the leases and mining property that changed hands as a results of his endeavors were larger than had ever been paid before.The latter part of 1897 and in 1898 more than $400,000 was invested in mining property by eastern men who comprised syndicates promoted by Mr. CORBIN. This sum was paid for three leases by three syndicates. A lease held by De Graff Brothers was the first to be taken over by the easterners. The next syndicate formed by Mr. CORBIN bought the North Empire lease and the Amsden land, paying $160,000 for it. The third syndicate purchased the John Jackson lease for $105,000. Other interests with which he was identified are the Henry C. McKinley and Tracy Companies.The sale of these three leases awakened the people of the district. Such vast sums had not been invested in mining tracts before, to their knowledge, and it surprised them.As time passed, Mr. CORBIN organized other syndicates that purchased mining lands and leases here. The prices paid were large and the investments were good. The investors did not lose, but, instead, made money in large sums. The mines they acquired yielded bountifully and the district's production and value of sales increased form year to year.Men of wealth in the east with whom Mr. CORBIN was not associated began to give attention to the Joplin mining district. They saw it making strides and they came here and invested their money. What they did for Joplin, and what the syndicate organized by Mr. CORBIN did for the district, caused it to grow and become prosperous.Mr. CORBIN's first visit here marked the beginning of a new era of prosperity. He made trips to and from New York every year after 1897 and, while many of his stays here were short, he usually did something for the district before he went away. He averaged three or four visits to Joplin yearly. While in New York he usually was planning to promote some enterprise here.A few years after his first visit, Mr. CORBIN planned to interest British capitalists in the district. He made a trip to London to carry out his plans, which may yet bear fruit.It was while here that Mr. CORBIN contracted the cold that resulted in his death. He got his feet wet the week before he died and was seized with an attack of la grippe. This developed into pneumonia and his death followed. The body was sent to Gouverneur NY accompanied by his only surviving children, Arthur CORBIN an Miss Grace CORBIN.That Mr. CORBIN's death was untimely in the declaration of Joplin business men who knew him. They say he had planned to further develop the mining industry and assure the district continued prosperity for years to come.Mr. CORBIN was 69 years old. He was active for one of that age and enjoyed good health until seized with the cold that resulted in his death.Joplin Morning Tribune - February 19, 1913CORBIN - Amasa J. CORBIN, 69 years old, died yesterday morning at the Connor hotel afer a week's illness with pneumonia. He was in Joplin with his daughter, Miss Grace CORBIN, on a business trip.Mr. CORBIN was interested in a number of mines in the Joplin district. He had been intersted in mines for several years and was instrumental in interesting eastern capital in the lead and zinc interests of Jasper county. Besides his daughter, Mr. CORBIN is survived by a son, Arthur CORBIN, of Indianapolis, Ind.The body will be taken to his home in Gouverneur, where the funeral services will be held. All of the funeral arrangements had not been made last night. His son, Ralph CORBIN, died in Joplin abou two years ago. Mr. CORBIN had a great many friends in Jasper county who were shocke to hear of his death. It was not generally known that he was ill.The remains will lie in state at the Scottish Rite cathedral, 823 Main Street, from 12 o'clock noon until 4 o'clock this afternoon at which hour services will be held uner the auspices of Fellowship Lodge A.F.A.M.
  Created by: Anne Cady (46985237)
  Added: 12 Apr 2008
  URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25942742?ftm=1
  Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 May 2018), memorial page for Amasa CORBIN (31 Dec 1843-18 Feb 1913), Find A Grave Memorial no. 25942742, citing Riverside Cemetery, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Anne Cady (contributor 46985237) .
  

  (Riverside Cemetery; Plot C)

• Ein Kind von Amasa Corbin und Phebe Maria Foster

Familie von Amasa Corbin Jr.

Er ist verheiratet mit Alice A. Thorpe.

Sie haben geheiratet am 10. Mai 1866 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA, er war 22 Jahre alt.Quellen 1, 5, 7

Kind(er):

1. Elva Thorpe Corbin  1872-1888
2. Herbert Corbin  1871-1871
3. Amasa Meeker Corbin  1877-1878
4. Grace Hattie 'Gracie' Corbin  1874-1964
5. Ada Thorpe Corbin  1869-1872
6. Arthur Foster Corbin  1867-1940
7. Ralph Herbert Corbin  1879-1908

Notizen bei Amasa Corbin Jr.

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, p. 281 #455 "AMASA CORBIN, Jr. (Amasa, William, Joseph, John, Jabez, Clement), b. Dec 31, 1843, at Gouverneur, N.Y.; m. Alice A. Thorpe, May 10, 1866. She was b. at Bridgeport, Conn., Dec 23, 1842, dau. of Peter Meeker and Harriet B. (Hubbell) Thorpe.

Peter M. Thorpe, president of an insurance company at Bridgeport, was b. Aug 13, 1813, Son of Joel Thorpe, a sea captain, and _____Meeker. Harriet B. Hubbell, b. Aug 26, 1817, was the dau. of Charles B. Hubbell, president of Pequonock Bank, Bridgeport, until his death at the age of 84.

He was not favored with a military education, but he quaintly says he learned "attention" at District School No. 11, "make ready" at Hopkins Select School at Rockville, and to "fire" at Bryant, Stratton & Folsom's College at Albany, and he says he has been "banging away ever since, scattering a good deal and occasionally hitting the bull's eye."

He earned his first dollar trading jack-knives, his second shooting muskrats, his first hundred teaching, and at eighteen became a full-fledged professor in the Burlington Business College. At twenty he was proprietor and half owner of the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Business College, where he saved up $4,000, and married. At twenty-two he took an interest in The Bryant & Stratton School at Poughkeepsie in competition with the Eastman College, where he says he "kissed his $4,000 good-by, in exchange for valuable experience."

With a handsome horse and a Brewster buggy, the gift of his pupils, as his sole capital, he took up insurance in 1867, and later, with his brother Jay S., at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., gained prominence as a successful organizer and business manager.

In 1879 he became president of the St. Lawrence Mfg. Co., a corporation of his own creation for the manufacture of the CORBIN disc harrow (the invention of Jay S. CORBIN), which found a market in every state of the Union and in Austria, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, and South America.

He was one of the pioneers in the great tale industry of his native town, and the first to enlist large capital in the enterprise. He organized the Adirondack Pulp Co. (capital, $750,000) of which he was president, and this company subsequently absorbed a number of competing companies and is now known as the International Tale Co., capital stock $5,000,000.

During the same period he was a breeder of thoroughbred and trotting horses on a small scale at the farm upon which he was born. He also built and equipped the largest creamery in the state, and manufactured the milk of 1,300 cows into butter and cheese; and he found time to serve as president of the Gouverneur Agricultural 7 mechanical Society, which he quickly made popular and financially successful.

Since 1897 he has been successfully engaged in the zinc and lead industries of southwestern Missouri, and is credited with having occasioned the great boom there of 1898, when the "CORBIN Syndicates" were most active in the purchase of many of the great producing mines of that favored country. He is also interested in the development of a pyrites mine at Gouverneur, for the manufacture of sulfuric acid.

He was the first and only Democrat to serve his town on the board of supervisors prior to 1904. He was nominated by his party for Congress in 1884, and came within forty-two votes of being the member of assembly from his district in 1892--Gouverneur was the Republican stronghold of the banner Republican County (St Lawrence) of the state.

His home is at Gouverneur, New York, and he is widely known as a genial gentleman and a man of extraordinary business ability and good judgment."

OBITUARY:
Amasa CORBIN
Birth: 31 Dec 1843
Death: 18 Feb 1913 (aged 69)
Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
Plot: Section C
Memorial #: 25942742
Bio: Joplin Daily Globe, March 4, 1913When Eastern Capital First Poured Into the Southwest Mining DistrictOne Man, Realizing Great Opportunities Here, Organized Syndicates That Invested Thousands - Others Then Followed in Rapid Succession.Eastern capital began to flow into the Joplin mining district in 1897, and it has continued with increasing rapidity ever since. Like a young river after a heavy rain, whose banks can scarcely retain the water as it goes bounding and leaping onward, capital held by men with vast fortunes in the east has been pouring into this district with such satisfactory results that the influx promises to go on unimpeded.What have been the satisfactory results spoken of? This question can be answered best by local men whose money is invested here, and by reason of which they feel the effects of large investments by men unknown in the district and ostensibly unacquainted with its resources and opportunities, quicker than do the men whose money is not placed here and who, therefore, are not as greatly interested in seeing the district prosper.If those men who really know the results of the investment of colossal sums in Joplin ore fields in the last ten years would tell, it would require some time to complete the task.Probably they would first mention the development of the mining industry, which has been unequaled in any corresponding period of time. This has had much to do with the growth of other industries and the growth of Joplin and other cities throughout the district. So it would hardly be reasonable to suspect that some mention of it would not be made by local men, should they be called upon to tell why the district has made progress unexcelled by any other community with equal advantages and opportunities.If they did explain what has been done in a mining way and also the cause of the mining industry development they would tell you of Amasa CORBIN, whose death occurred at the Connor hotel, February 18 last.Mr. CORBIN probably did more for this district after 1897 than did any other man. He not only was responsible for more than $2,000,000 being invested here in that period, but he paved the way for much larger investments. It was what he did that caused eastern men to investigate local conditions. The outcome of the investigations, with but few exceptions, has been the investment of huge sums.Mr. CORBIN's home was in Gouverneur, New York. He did much for that city and other cities in New York, the same as he did for Joplin and other towns and cities in the mining district. For years he was in the insurance business and also engaged as an implement dealer in the Empire state. A brother, J. CORBIN, was associated with him much of the time. They made a success of both businesses through fair and honest dealings and a thorough knowledge of good business methods. In the years they were in business they acquired a wide acquaintance among moneyed men and others.The Joplin associates of Amasa CORBIN do not know what prompted him to come to this district, other than they believe it was a realization of the opportunities to be found. This belief is substantiated by events that transpired after his arrival.He first made the acquaintance of several business men after coming here and told them of his plan, which was to interest eastern capitalists in the mining business to the extent that they would engage in that industry.He succeeded admirably in his endeavors. The first year he was here the district witnessed the purchase o mining leases by eastern syndicates for enormous sums when compared with those that had been paid formerly. The prices paid for the leases and mining property that changed hands as a results of his endeavors were larger than had ever been paid before.The latter part of 1897 and in 1898 more than $400,000 was invested in mining property by eastern men who comprised syndicates promoted by Mr. CORBIN. This sum was paid for three leases by three syndicates. A lease held by De Graff Brothers was the first to be taken over by the easterners. The next syndicate formed by Mr. CORBIN bought the North Empire lease and the Amsden land, paying $160,000 for it. The third syndicate purchased the John Jackson lease for $105,000. Other interests with which he was identified are the Henry C. McKinley and Tracy Companies.The sale of these three leases awakened the people of the district. Such vast sums had not been invested in mining tracts before, to their knowledge, and it surprised them.As time passed, Mr. CORBIN organized other syndicates that purchased mining lands and leases here. The prices paid were large and the investments were good. The investors did not lose, but, instead, made money in large sums. The mines they acquired yielded bountifully and the district's production and value of sales increased form year to year.Men of wealth in the east with whom Mr. CORBIN was not associated began to give attention to the Joplin mining district. They saw it making strides and they came here and invested their money. What they did for Joplin, and what the syndicate organized by Mr. CORBIN did for the district, caused it to grow and become prosperous.Mr. CORBIN's first visit here marked the beginning of a new era of prosperity. He made trips to and from New York every year after 1897 and, while many of his stays here were short, he usually did something for the district before he went away. He averaged three or four visits to Joplin yearly. While in New York he usually was planning to promote some enterprise here.A few years after his first visit, Mr. CORBIN planned to interest British capitalists in the district. He made a trip to London to carry out his plans, which may yet bear fruit.It was while here that Mr. CORBIN contracted the cold that resulted in his death. He got his feet wet the week before he died and was seized with an attack of la grippe. This developed into pneumonia and his death followed. The body was sent to Gouverneur NY accompanied by his only surviving children, Arthur CORBIN an Miss Grace CORBIN.That Mr. CORBIN's death was untimely in the declaration of Joplin business men who knew him. They say he had planned to further develop the mining industry and assure the district continued prosperity for years to come.Mr. CORBIN was 69 years old. He was active for one of that age and enjoyed good health until seized with the cold that resulted in his death.Joplin Morning Tribune - February 19, 1913CORBIN - Amasa J. CORBIN, 69 years old, died yesterday morning at the Connor hotel afer a week's illness with pneumonia. He was in Joplin with his daughter, Miss Grace CORBIN, on a business trip.Mr. CORBIN was interested in a number of mines in the Joplin district. He had been intersted in mines for several years and was instrumental in interesting eastern capital in the lead and zinc interests of Jasper county. Besides his daughter, Mr. CORBIN is survived by a son, Arthur CORBIN, of Indianapolis, Ind.The body will be taken to his home in Gouverneur, where the funeral services will be held. All of the funeral arrangements had not been made last night. His son, Ralph CORBIN, died in Joplin abou two years ago. Mr. CORBIN had a great many friends in Jasper county who were shocke to hear of his death. It was not generally known that he was ill.The remains will lie in state at the Scottish Rite cathedral, 823 Main Street, from 12 o'clock noon until 4 o'clock this afternoon at which hour services will be held uner the auspices of Fellowship Lodge A.F.A.M.
Created by: Anne Cady (46985237)
Added: 12 Apr 2008
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25942742?ftm=1
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 May 2018), memorial page for Amasa CORBIN (31 Dec 1843-18 Feb 1913), Find A Grave Memorial no. 25942742, citing Riverside Cemetery, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Anne Cady (contributor 46985237) .

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