Abel Rathbone Corbin (May 24, 1808 – March 28, 1881) was an American newspaper editor, financier, and the husband of Virginia Grant, sister of President
Ulysses S. Grant. In the 1830s, he edited the ''Missouri Argus'' of St. Louis, the official Democratic party organ of Missouri. He was involved in the
Black Friday stock market crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling and underlying economic factors. They often fol ...
of September 24, 1869.
Corbin was born in
Otsego County, New York
Otsego County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,524. The county seat is Cooperstown. The county's population center is Oneonta. The name ''Otsego'' is from a Mohawk or Oneida word m ...
to Eliakim Lyon Corbin and Lodama (née Rathbone) Corbin. He married on May 13, 1869, in
Covington, Kentucky
Covington is a list of cities in Kentucky, home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Ohio River, Ohio and Licking River (Kentucky), Licking rivers, across from Cincinnati to the north ...
, to Virginia Grant as his second wife. They had one child, Jennie Corbin, who died as an infant. Abel's first marriage, to Elizabeth (née Lewis) McAllister (1794–1868), also had no surviving issue. Abel Corbin died in
.
References
PBS's American Experience on Black FridayThe Corbin Ancestry of Abel Rathbone Corbin
* William H. Lyon, ''The Pioneer Editor in Missouri 1808–1860'' (University of Missouri Press, 1965), 22–23.
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1808 births
1881 deaths
People from Otsego, New York
American financiers
Missouri Democrats
19th-century American businesspeople
19th-century American newspaper editors
American male journalists
Businesspeople from New York (state)
Journalists from New York (state)