Henry Tabor Corson Biography


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CORSON, HENRY TABOR, is a native of Maine, and was born November 8, 1837. 
He attended school during his youth, and when nineteen years of age went to 
California, and remained five years. During his residence on the Pacific coast 
he spent some time in the mines, but during the larger portion was employed by 
a Chicago store house at San Francisco.  Upon leaving California he went to 
Chicago where he made his home, remaining in the employ of the same house as 
a traveling salesman until 1878. When his brother Harry commenced the hotel 
business in Sioux Falls, he contributed to the enterprise, and in 1878 removed 
to Sioux Falls with his family and took up his residence at the Cataract, where 
he in connection with his brother had the management of this famous hotel until 
it was leased in January, 1894.  Since then he has remained a private citizen 
of Sioux Falls, taking things leisurely. Mr. Corson, although never an office 
seeker, has occasionally been energetic in political affairs. He was a member of 
the board of directors of the Dakota penitentiary in 1885-6, and took a very 
active part in procuring the building of the Willmar & Sioux Falls railroad into 
Sioux Falls, and was one of the directors of the first railroad corporation 
organized for that purpose, and the first railroad station out of Sioux Falls 
received his name to commemorate his services in the enterprise. He is a 
prominent Mason, a good citizen, and has a host of friends.