Abel Corbin, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAbel Corbin
American financier
Date of Birth: 24-May-1808
Date of Death: 28-Mar-1881
Profession: financier
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Abel Corbin
- Abel Rathbone Corbin (May 24, 1808 – March 28, 1881) was an American newspaper editor, financier, and the husband of Virginia Grant, sister of President Ulysses S.
- Grant.
- In the 1830s, he edited the Missouri Argus of St.
- Louis, the official Democratic party organ of Missouri.
- He was involved in the Black Friday stock market crash of September 24, 1869. Corbin was born in Otsego, New York to Eliakim Lyon Corbin and Lodama (née Rathbone) Corbin.
- He married on May 13, 1869, in Covington, Kentucky, to Virginia Grant as his second wife.
- They had one child, Jennie Corbin, who died as an infant.
- Abel's first marriage, to Elizabeth (née Lewis) McAllister (1794-1868), also had no surviving issue.
- Abel Corbin died in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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