Harry E. Corbin Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises six marriage record books belonging to Reverend Harry E Corbin. The first book notes that Harry E Corbin bought the book while living in Canton, Missouri in 1923. The book details marriages dating back to 1913 added by Harry E Corbin after the purchase of the book. The date of the last entry in the final book is 1969. The number of recorded marriages performed by Reverend Corbin totaled 585 marriages. Each record lists the date and place where the license was issued, the names and residences of the couple being married, the witnesses, and the date and location the marriage was performed. At the front of each book is an alphabetical index of names along with the corresponding page number of the marriage record.
Dates
- Creation: 1914 - 1969
Creator
- Corbin, Harry E., 1888-1970 (Person)
Biographical / Historical
The Reverend Harry E. Corbin was born in Illinois on November 1, 1888. He married Cora Mae Brasher and together they had twelve children. He died in 1970 and is buried in Platte City, Missouri. He served as a Methodist minister for the following congregations in Missouri: • Marble Hill Circuit (1917-1918) • Glasgow Missouri Station (1919-1921) • Canton, MO (1922-1923) • Hardin, MO (1924-1927) • Brunswick Station Missouri (1928-1929) • Plattsburg, MO (1930-1931) • Elsberry, MO and Smith Chapel (1932) • Platte City Missouri Circuit (1933) • Platte City and Paradise, MO (1934-1936) • Linneus and Purdin, MO (1937-1938) • Bucklin-Wyandott, MO (1941-1943) • Princeton, MO (1944-1945) • Marvin McMurry, St. Joseph, MO (1946-1948) • Gideon, MO (1949-1954) • Concord Village, St. Louis, MO (1955) • White Ave, Kansas City, MO (1956-1960) • Fairmont United, Independence, MO (1961-1967)
Full Extent
1 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Harry E. Corbin Collection
- Subtitle
- A finding aid from the Midwest Genealogy Center
- Author
- Jolene Clark
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Midwest Genealogy Center Repository