Corbin, Paul Leaton, 1875-1936.

Paul Leaton Corbin was born in Carlinville, Illinois on September 28, 1875. He received the A.B. from Blackburn College in 1898. After graduating with the B.D. degree from Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1903, he and his wife, Miriam Locke Corbin (1878-1928), departed for China's Shansi Province where they and other Oberlin missionaries began to rebuild the missions of the American Board which had been destroyed in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. Corbin was active at the Taigu station as an adviser to H.H. Kung, principal of the boys' school, Ming Hsien. He wrote frequently of his experiences as a missionary and assembled a 1,500-volume collection of English-language books on China which he bequeathed to Oberlin College Library. In February 1928, he returned to the U.S. on furlough and was with his wife when she died in March of that year. He returned to China in 1931 and retired the following year. He died suddenly at the age of 60 in Taigu, on January 9, 1936.