Paper read before the Inland historical Society, 1906.

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Paper read before the Inland historical Society, 1906.

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One signed, typewritten paper by D. C. Corbin for the Inland Empire Historical Society in Spokane on March 24, 1906. The speech talks about his arrival in the Coeur d'Alene mining district in 1886. He talks about how impressed he was with the mining district and his decision to build the railroad. He also talks about further railroad development, in which he engaged in Canada.

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Spokane Public Library, Downtown Branch

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Spokane Public Library, Downtown Branch

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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 ...