DON DELOS CORBIN

(DEC. 17, 1911)

Another Prominent Citizen Passed Away Sunday After a Brief Illness

   Don Delos Corbin, aged 70 years, died at his home on Chenango street at 4 o'clock Sunday morning, after an illness of only a few days.  Heart disease was the immediate cause of death.

   Mr. Corbin was born at East McDonough, March 3, 1841, and was the son of Horace and Jemima Baldwin Corbin.  He was educated in the district school near his boyhood home and at Oxford Academy.  On December 28, 1870, he married Mary M. Coville, daughter of J. Addison Coville of Preston, whose death occurred in this village March 21, 1904.

   Up to the year 1896, Mr. and Mrs. Corbin were engaged in farming, residing on the old homestead at East McDonough.  In March of that year, they removed to this village.  For a number of years, Mr. Corbin was engaged in the coal business.  The only public positions he ever held were railroad commissioner for the town of McDonough and the office of one of the assessors for this town.

   Mr. Corbin was a man whose opinion was often sought in matters of business, and was greatly valued.  He was kindly, courteous and a man of conservative tastes.  A regular attendant of the Congregational church, and in politics a Democrat.

   Three daughter and two sons are the surviving members of the family.  They are: Virginia J. Corbin of Amarillo, Texas and Mrs. Jessica Colwell of Au Sable, a brother Horace of Staten Island.  and Abel R. Corbin of Penn Yan.

NOTE:  DATE WAS HAND-WRITTEN ON THE ARTICLE.