Records of Abel Corbin on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Abel Corbin and the Corbin Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Corbin Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Corbin family tree.

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Some Famous People called Abel Corbin

Abel Corbin

Abel Rathbone Corbin (May 24, 1808 – March 28, 1881) was an American newspaper editor, financier, and the husband of Virginia Grant, sister of President Ulysses S. Grant. In the 1830s, he edited the Missouri Argus of St. Louis, the official Democratic party organ of Missouri. He was involved in the Black Friday stock market crash of September 24, 1869.

Corbin was born in Otsego, New York to Eliakim Lyon Corbin and Lodama (née Rathbone) Corbin. He married on May 13, 1869, in Covington, Kentucky, to Virginia Grant as his second wife. They had one child, Jennie Corbin, who died as an infant. Abel's first marriage, to Elizabeth (née Lewis) McAllister (1794-1868), also had no surviving issue. Abel Corbin died in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Source: Abel Corbin, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Corbin

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