Mrs. [Clarissa L. (Spring)] Dowd was married near Lehigh,
Towa, January 21, 1858, to Albert G. Corbin, the ceremony being performed by
Ellis Mercer, an old settler and justice of the peace. Mr. Corbin was born in
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1831, and was a son of Benjamin
and Margaret M. (Park) Corbin, who traveled life's journey together for almost
seventy years. His father was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, February
19, 1807, and died in Story county, Iowa. January 27, 1900, while the mother
was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. February 22, 1809, and died in June,
1899. They removed to Ohio in 1834, and on coming to Iowa in 1853, first
located in Webster county, but in 1800 removed to Story county, where they ever
afterward made their home. During the Civil war Albert G. Corbin enlisted in
Company D. Sixteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was seriously wounded in the
battle of Shiloh, from the effects of which he died on the l0th of April, 1862,
after having a limb amputated. He left two sons: Wilbert N., now a resident of
Nevada, Iowa, married Ella McKee and their children arc Elaine, Clara, Lloyd,
Mabel, Fay, Bertha, Lee, and Eva. William, the younger son, was killed on the
railroad, December 19, 1882, at the age of twenty-two years.
SOURCE: S. J. Clark Publishing Company, The
Biographical Record Of Webster County, Iowa, p. 247-8, abstracted from the
biographical sketch of William V. Dowd.
