HADLEY M. CORSBIE - Biography

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This biography appears on page 638 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

HADLEY M. CORSBIE, Pastor Congregational Church, Burlington; born in
Thorntown, Ind., Dec. 6, 1848, of Quaker parents; remained there till 8
years old was then sent to Henry Co., Iowa, to be educated, and
graduated from Whittier College in 1872; he taught in Normal and graded
schools in Pike Co., Ill.; then went to the Chicago Theological
Seminary, where be graduated April 30, 1879, and commenced a pastorate
of the Congregatioual Cburch in the town of Burlington; delivered his
first sermon, Sunday, May 4, 1879; at the end of his first year in the
Seminary, he was sent by the Home Missionary Society up to the pineries
above Green Bay, Wis., where he spent eighteen months successfully; then
returned to the Seminary and remained two years longer. He married in
Salem, Iowa, Sept. 17, 1873, Susie D. Hartley, of Salem, but a native of
Indiana; his wife also graduated from Whittier College in 1872 they have
three children- Maurice, born July 12, 1874 - Lawrence, born Oct. 7,
1876; Arthur H., born Dec. 30, 1877.