Brief Life History of Philip Ira
When Philip Ira Corbin was born on 12 October 1877, in Mill Creek, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Corbin, was 33 and his mother, Susan Jane Heffner, was 29. He married Tursey Belle Shoop on 31 March 1903, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Henderson Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 10 September 1923, in Mill Creek, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Mill Creek, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Philip I Corbin in household of Joseph G Shaffer, "United States Census, 1910"
- Phillip Corbin, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Phillip Ira Corbin, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
French and English: nickname meaning ‘little crow, raven’, possibly applied to a black haired man, from Old French, Middle English corbin, a diminutive of corb ‘raven’ (Anglo-Norman French corbin, corfbin ‘crow, raven’).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the places in Calvados and Orne, France, named Corbon.
Irish: variant of Corban .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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