BIO: Wilbur CORBIN, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 40.
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WILBUR CORBIN
Huntingdon, Pa.

Florist:  Born June 12, 1886, in Henderson Township, Huntingdon County, Pa.  
A son of Millard F. Corbin, who was a merchant at Huntingdon, Pa., for twenty 
years.  Was also a farmer; owned a farm and died in 1916 at the age of fifty-
nine years, and of Alice (Rupert) Corbin, who died in 1908 at the age of 
fifty-three years.  Wilbur Corbin received his first insight into the mystery 
of an education in Henderson township, and later on attended the High School 
of Huntingdon.  For five years he was a clerk for Charles L. Wiley. He was 
for one and a half years a clerk in the Post Office, and for eight years was 
Register and Recorder of Huntingdon County.  At present he is a florist, and 
specializes in supplying flowers for funerals, banquets, etc., being well 
equipped with ample space for growing.  He is a World War veteran, having 
enlisted at Huntingdon, Pa., in Co. F, 8th Penna. Inf., and went to Camp 
Hancock, Georgia.  Was there for eight months; left for Newport News; sailed 
on (Aquitania), one week on water; arrived at Brest, France.  In rest camp 
for several days; went to Calais; to Folkstone, England; to Dover; crossed 
Channel to Alleroy, France; there for two weeks; left for Chateau Thierry; in 
action for three days; then to the Marne; to Vesle River; again in action; 
thence to Fismes, France, with action all along the line; went to Fismette, 
where he was wounded in backbone, down through hip to calf of leg; sent to 
hospital; later to Hospital 34 at Allaray, southern part of France; there for 
three months; went to base hospital 64 at Bordeaux, France; there for one 
week; to Brest, France; came back on hospital ship (Northern Pacific), one 
week on water; arrived at Ellis Island, New York; sent to Camp Dix, New 
Jersey; there for two and a half months at Division Hospital; discharge 
February 6, 1919, at Camp Dix, with a total service of nineteen months.  He 
is a member of the P.O.S. of A., I.O.O.F., Knights of Pythias, L.O.O.M., 
B.P.O.E., the Masonic fraternity, Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 300, Chapter and 
Commandery, all of Huntingdon, Pa.; also a Shriner of Altoona, Pa., a Masonic 
body.  He has one brother, Harry, Trenton, New Jersey. One brother deceased, 
Carey, who died at the age of thirty years.  His sisters are Minnie, 
deceased; Laura, Trenton, New Jersey; Emma, Huntingdon, Pa.; Mary, 
Huntingdon, Catharine, Tyrone; Bessie, Huntingdon; Edna, New Jersey; Dolly, 
Elizabeth, New Jersey.  He is a Baptist, his wife a Methodist.  Wilber Corbin 
was married to Rose Caldwell, who died in 1916.  He remarried to Mildred L. 
States.  They have three daughters, Ruth, eight years; Sarah Jane, seven, 
Helen, four.  One son deceased, Jack, at the age of six months.