Descendants Clement Corbin » George Benjamin 'Benjie' Corbin (1882-1962)

Données personnelles George Benjamin 'Benjie' Corbin 

• Il est né le 24 avril 1882 dans New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.Les sources 2, 4, 5, 8, 10
• Professions:
• en l'an 1905 He was employed as chemist in San Francisco..Source 8
• en l'an 1920 Druggist; Own Store.Source 3
• Éducation: Graduated and a student in the department of pharmacy in the Universit.Source 8
• Résidant:
• en l'an 1900: Sebastopol, Sonoma, California, USA.Source 9
• en l'an 1910: Analy, Sonoma, California, Verenigde Staten.Source 6
• en l'an 1930: Oakland, Alameda, California, USA.Source 1
• entre le 1917 et le 1918: Kern, California, USA.Source 5
• en l'an 1942: San Jose, Los Angeles, California, USA.Source 10
• Récensement en l'an 1920, Riverbank, Stanislaus, California, USA.Source 3
• Il est décédé le 13 avril 1962 dans Santa Clara, California, USA, il avait 79 ans.Source 2
• Un enfant de George Henry Corbin et Ruth Genevieve Slayton

Famille de George Benjamin 'Benjie' Corbin

(1) Il avait une relation avec Stella Purtina Whitescarver.

Enfant(s):

1. Genevieve Mary Estella Corbin  1914-1998
2. George Walter Corbin  1917-1984 

Le couple est divorcé.

(2) Il est marié avec Ida Jane Hardin.

Ils se sont mariés le 17 décembre 1902 à Petaluma, Sonoma, California, USA, il avait 20 ans.Source 8

Enfant(s):

1. Benjamin Hardin 'Ben' Corbin  1905-1999 

Evénement (Children): Only one son; Ben Hardin Corbin..Source 7

Notes par George Benjamin 'Benjie' Corbin

Cam CORBIN writes May 2005:
"George Benjamin CORBIN (Benjie) b. 24 April 1882 New Haven, CT d. c. 1962 San Jose CA
m. Ida Jane Hardin, CA One son Benjamin Hardin CORBIN b. c. November 1906 d. November 1999, Santa Cruz CA; m.
Carol Reina Hannegress b. June 1906 Santa Cruz, CA d. 01 Jan 2001 Santa Cruz CA; One daughter, Cleone Patricia CORBIN, b. 1930, d. 1937, Vallejo, CA.

m. Stella Mary/Marie Whitescarver One daughter Genevieve Mary CORBIN (Hokanson, Davidson) b. 1915 or 1916, CA, d. 2000, FL; one son George Walter CORBIN (follows)
*Benjie may have married several other women, and he may have fathered other children, we're not sure--there are two half-sisters, Bertha and Lillian, but we don't know if they're Corbins and we don't know anything else about them."
*****
George Benjamin "Benjie" CORBIN, d. 1964. Benjie's parents were George Henry CORBIN and Ruth Geneveive Slayton. Benjie was a wild child, he was spoiled and since he was the only child he got anything he wanted.

Benjie was short (5'4" would be my guess from the photos), had a long upper lip as did his sons Ben Hardin and George Walter (below) and my husband, and the CORBIN chin. My brother-in-law Gerry didn't get the features but all the Corbins have a glint in their eyes when they're about to do something they think is exceptionally clever (as do our daughter and our nephew). It is mistakable. They are spotted easily in a crowd. CORBIN men, at least this branch, are very handsome and ooze charm. My father-in-law "collected
blonde's." He had blond lady friends at the market, the gas station, the nursery, the hardware store. Perfectly innocent but they were drawn to him like moths to a flame. My husband has a gaggle of women who are devoted to him, same deal, although he doesn't specialize in blonde's, they all love him. Benjie and Ben Hardin were short, my husband's father George Walter was tall and my husband and his brother are too. From his photos George Henry was tall and slim as a young man, he was pretty thin even in old age. My
husband is a beanpole like him. Ben Hardin was also fairly slim but very strong."

Benjie married at least three times; his first (we think) wife was Ida Hardin, with whom he had a son, Benjamin Hardin CORBIN, who died in November 1999 (?) at the age of 94. His second wife was Stella Whitescarver of Ohio. They divorced sometime in the 1920s and she gave over custody of Benjie and his older sister Genevieve Mary CORBIN Hokanson Davidson (possibly one other name too, don't know the names of all her husbands, she's also dead--about two years ago) to Geo Henry and Ruth with the promise that the children would receive a college education.

No education happened, and the doting grandparents raised the kids to think that Benjie was their older brother. Meanwhile Benjie sowed his oats everywhere he could. (I can't find it right now, but somewhere we have a blurry photo of him in a long white nightshirt out cavorting in the orchard in the dark. He was a very naughty boy.)

Apparently Stella was pretty generous too, when my father-in-law went to his mother's funeral in 1964 or 1965 he met half-sisters he didn't know he had, Bertha and Lillian last names unknown. He didn't meet Ben Hardin, his older half-brother, until he was in high school, which is about when he found out that his "older brother" was really his father. I was never able to get any details out of him; he was so bitter about his whole childhood and upbringing that he wouldn't discuss it at all. I do remember him saying bitterly that when Benjie came to visit they ate better than any other time, that Ruth doted on her boy. My mother-in-law has never been interested in any of this stuff, so she's tossed any documents that might have been helpful long before I came on the scene.

Benjie, despite having put out his eye with a rake as a small child, graduated as a pharmacist from the University of California. He attended Cal Berkeley and then the pharmacy school in San Francisco. He was on the bicycle team at Cal. His son Ben Hardin CORBIN also attended UCSF pharmacy school and was a pharmacist as a young man. George Henry had a very successful drug store in Connecticut, and he and his bride Ruth came west in style, due to their excellent financial circumstances, and settled in Solano County, California sometime in the late 1800s (I believe in Sebastopol). He had an apple ranch and later lost all his money investing in an electric car about 1911. He and Ruth moved to Oakland and that's where they raised their grandchildren."

Best wishes,
Cam CORBIN

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