John Currier Corbin

Male9 June 1869–9 February 1941

Brief Life History of John Currier

When John Currier Corbin was born on 9 June 1869, in Warren Center, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Horace Greeley Corbin, was 36 and his mother, Pluma Barton Currier, was 33. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 9 February 1941, in Warren Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Warren Center, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Horace Greeley Corbin
1832–1908
Pluma Barton Currier
1835–1906
Rachael Agnes Corbin
1860–1936
Helen Amelia Corbin
1864–1947
Henry Edgar Corbin
1866–1942
John Currier Corbin
1869–1941

Sources (3)

  • John Corbin in household of Horace Corbin, "United States Census, 1870"
  • John Currier Corbin, Pennsylvania Death Certificate 1941
  • John C Corben in household of H G Corben, "United States Census, 1880"

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World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 1

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad

Age 8

Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

Age 21

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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