Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . 3 he organizedthe First National Bank of Davenport, of which hewas the first President. Removing to New York in1865, he became Receiver and subsequently Presi-dent of the Indiana, Bloomington & Western Rail-road, and in 1866 he founded the Corbin BankingCompany and organized the Manhattan Beach Com-pany. He was later chosen President of the LongIsland Railroad and of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, and from th
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . 3 he organizedthe First National Bank of Davenport, of which hewas the first President. Removing to New York in1865, he became Receiver and subsequently Presi-dent of the Indiana, Bloomington & Western Rail-road, and in 1866 he founded the Corbin BankingCompany and organized the Manhattan Beach Com-pany. He was later chosen President of the LongIsland Railroad and of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, and from that time forward until the closeof his life he was a recognized power in railway andfinancial circles, and the promoter of many formid-able business undertakings which he successfullycarried out. Mr. Corbin was proud of his New Eng-land birth, and deeply attached to his native he resided during the summer season. Hisdeath occurred at Newport, New Hampshire, June 4,1896, and was the result of an accident. He was amember of numerous social and other organizations,among them the Manhattan, Metropolitan, Lawyers,South Side and Players Clubs of New York, and the. AUSTIN CORBIN Somerset Club, Boston. In 1853 he marriedHannah M. Wheeler, and of his five children, threeare living : ,\ustin, Isabelle C. and Anna W. others were William and Mary Corbin. BUTLER, Sigourney Harvard 1877, , 1880. Born in Boston, Mass., 1857; educated in Boston andat Harvard; admitted to Bar about 1880; acquired dis-tinction as a lawyer; 2d Comptroller U. S. Treasury1885; Visitor to the U. S. Military Academy; assistedin framing Quincy City charter ; was a leading spiritin Democratic politics ; died 1898. SIGOURNEY BUTLER, , Lawyer, wasborn in Boston, Massachusetts, October 24,1857. son of Peter and Lucia (Proctor) Buder. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 273 His preparatory studies were pursued at J. P. Hop-kinsons school, that city, from which he enteredHarvard, graduating in 187
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