Brief Life History of Whitman
When Whitman Corbin was born on 5 April 1807, in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States, his father, Amasa Corbin, was 35 and his mother, Rebecca Hayward, was 36. He married Clarissa Church on 28 April 1833, in Lebanon, Lebanon, Madison, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Clarkson, Monroe, New York, United States in 1850. He died on 7 September 1853, in Walker Cemetery, Hamlin, Hamlin, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Hamlin, Hamlin, Monroe, New York, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Qulman Corban, "United States Census, 1850"
- Whitman Crobin, "BillionGraves Index"
- Whitman Corbin, "Find A Grave Index"
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Children (9)
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1819
The Town of Clarkson was formed from the Town of Murray, on 2 April 1819.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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