Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . three years Mr. Corbin worked on the great mills being builtin Webster, Southbridge, Charlton, and Oxford, Massachusetts, andin Thompson, Connecticut, and his success at his fathers trade wasas immediate as it was great. In 1846 he first came to Rockville tobe employed on the Eock Mill, and the following year he moved hisfamily to that town and took charge of the building of the AmericanMills. Many other large and important contracts followed, but therewere many discouragin
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . three years Mr. Corbin worked on the great mills being builtin Webster, Southbridge, Charlton, and Oxford, Massachusetts, andin Thompson, Connecticut, and his success at his fathers trade wasas immediate as it was great. In 1846 he first came to Rockville tobe employed on the Eock Mill, and the following year he moved hisfamily to that town and took charge of the building of the AmericanMills. Many other large and important contracts followed, but therewere many discouraging lulls in the building business. In 1851, whenthe promise of gold in California lured so many to the Pacific Coast,Mr. Corbin went with a number of fellow townsmen to try his luck atmining. He remained only about two years, and upon his return toRockville built his present house and settled down to his former Corbins keen judgment soon foresaw the future opportunityfor the manufacture of envelopes, and he became interested in per-fecting a machine for that purpose. In 1854 he became a one-third 296 ^ ^. LEWIS ANOEL COUBIN. 299 owner in the firm that later boiame White & Corbin, the pioneers oftlie envelope industry. The growth of tJie business was slow, and kept up his building contracts, one of the most important atthis period being that for the Congregational Church in Great Bar-ington, Massachusetts. P^ver ambitious, Mr. (orbin added flour andgrain mills to those for the manufacture of envelopes. The envelopebusiness increased steadily, new factories were bought up and builton until the business became the largest of its kind in the 18D8 the White & Corbin Company amalgamated with the UnitedStates Envelope Company, and Mr. Corbin retired from the firm,since when he has bc<n busily engaged with his extensive real estateinterests. In politics Mr. Corbin was called a temperance Kepubliean. Hisfirst vote was cast in 1844 for Henry Clay. In 1
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