Benjamin Albee CORBIN

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abt. 1809 , Dudley, Massachusetts, USA

Died

15 October 1880 , Webster, Massachusetts, USA

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Timothy CORBIN Ruth ALBEE

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Born: abt. 1809 in Dudley, Massachusetts, USA

Father: Timothy CORBIN

Mother: Ruth ALBEE

Paternal grandparents: Timothy CORBIN , Abigail VINTON

Maternal grandparents: Benjamin ALBEE , Sarah TAFT

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Benjamin Albee married Lovica BROWN 22 November 1835 in Dudley, Massachusetts, USA . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Lovica BROWN was born 29 June 1813 in Dudley, Massachusetts, USA.

Benjamin Albee CORBIN died 15 October 1880 in Webster, Massachusetts, USA.
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Lovica BROWN
Marriage date: 22 November 1835
Marriage place: Dudley, Massachusetts, USA

Children of Benjamin Albee CORBIN and Lovica BROWN

Elizabeth Brown CORBIN

Born: 18 August 1839, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 2 April 1862,

Chester Clemens CORBIN

Born: 25 September 1841, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 14 March 1903, Manhattan, New York, USA

Married: Augusta E SMITH 14 November 1866 Place: Webster, Massachusetts, USA

Francelia CORBIN

Born: 14 August 1844, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 12 August 1904, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Anna Augusta CORBIN

Born: 3 September 1851, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA
Died: ,

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B.A. Corbin Shoe Factory, circa 1900.
Benjamin Albee Corbin was born in Dudley in June 1809. His younger brother, Lament Bacon Corbin, came along in 1813. They were born into a large and poor family. Timothy Corbin Jr., their father, had died in 1825 at age 45 leaving a wife and nine young children. By the mid 1830’s, the two boys were making shoes in a shop behind their house near Dudley Hill.

Benjamin married Louisa Brown in 1835. His brother, Lament (often misspelled as Lamont) married Melezenda Pierrepont in 1841 and relocated his part of the shoe business to Oxford (he died in Oxford in 1872 of “fitts”).

In 1849, Ben bought a piece of land from Moses Barnes, 65-1/ 2 rods in size (almost half acre), that sat just to the south of the little yellow house now called the Penniman house on Dudley Hill. Ben continued as a cordwainer and the business prospered. He began looking for a new place for his business and decided the lot on the corner at Dudley Hill’s “four corners” would be ideal. However, as the saying goes,...Read full story

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1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 - James Monroe becomes President of the United States

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1825 - John Quincy Adams becomes President of the United States

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 - Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 - Andrew Jackson becomes President of the United States

1830 - The Indian Removal Act marks the beginning of the forced relocation of five tribes of native Americans, known as Trail of Tears

1835 Marriage / Partner
Benjamin Albee CORBIN and Lovica BROWN 22 November 1835, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA

1837 - Martin Van Buren becomes President of the United States

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1839 Birth of Child
Elizabeth Brown CORBIN was born 18 August 1839, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.

1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President of the United States

1841 - John Tyler becomes President of the United States

1841 Birth of Child
Chester Clemens CORBIN was born 25 September 1841, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1844 Birth of Child
Francelia CORBIN was born 14 August 1844, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1845 - James Knox Polk becomes President of the United States

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President of the United States

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1851 Birth of Child
Anna Augusta CORBIN was born 3 September 1851, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States