Daniel Chase Corbin Notebook 1905

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Daniel Chase Corbin Notebook 1905

Capitalist and railroad builder, of Spokane, Wash. Notebook relating to negotiations for the construction of Spokane International Railway and clippings concerning Corbin's first wife, Louisa M. (Jackson) Corbin.

1 v. and 1 folder

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Spokane International Railway

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Corbin, Louisa M., -1900

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Corbin, D. C. (Daniel Chase), 1832-1918

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Daniel Chase Corbin, railroad builder and industrialist, was born in New Hampshire in 1832. He spent his childhood on a farm in New Hampshire but went West in 1852. He began in the freighting business. In 1862, after marrying his first wife, Louisa M. Jackson, he moved to Denver and then later moved to Montana. He was engaged in banking and mining. In the 1870s, he worked with his brother in the railway business in New York, and then returned to Montana in 1882, where he engaged in mining. With ...