Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-06-10
In Memory OF Austin Corbin.


A parlor car containing the relatives and
the remains Of Austin Corbin passed
through Bellows Falls Saturday noon. The
funeral, which was private, was from his
New York residence Tuesday.
The New York Sun of Saturday con-
tanned this tribute to his memory:
We sincerely deplore the death of Austin
Corbn. Although fairly along in years, he
was fine figure of sturdy health and Won
deriul energy, and, in the nature of things,
had before him cheerful expectancy of life.
most unhappy accident has carried him off
from the whirlpool of great affairs and far
reaching enterprises, over which he presided
with the nnequallcd mastery of men and
matters that was the admiration of all who
knew him. He was first of all an American,
and as stalwart II type of the race as New
Hampshire has produced. Considered as an
| enemy, there might not be u poorer choice of
u man than the choice of Austin Corhin; as
friend, there could none be found more
stanch, more true.
Austin Corbn was about GO years of
age and was well known in New York and
throughout the country as the millionaire
proprietor of the Long Island Railroad
company. He owned magnificent resi-
dence in Babylon, l.. l., and large coun-
try place in Newport, N. H., which is
stocked with deer, buffalo and other ami
mails, many of which were formerly on ex-
hibition at Manhattan Beach. This is
under the control of the Long Island sys-
tenn, including the profitable and popular
Manhattan Beach line and Marine railroad,
the Manhattan Beach and Oriental hotels
and nearly one-half of the water front, ex-
tending from the line of the Brighton Beach
hotel clear up to Point Breeze, distance
OF two miles. He also owned the new
cycle track that was built in the rear of the
hotel
Mr.. Corbin's wealth has been variously
estimated at from one to ten million dol
lars. He owned one OF the sky-scraping
buildings at Broadway and John streets,
New York, and considerable property and
real estate in Brooklyn and Long Island
and other sections of the country.
He was called one of the most progress
sive and public spirited men in New York.
Mr.. Corbin's wealth was started many
years ago by western loans. He advanced
money to farmers, taking mortgages on
their farms in the celebrated mortgage days
of the new west and came into possession
OF enormous estates.
When he came into control of the Long
Island railroad it had been nearly ruined
by the Charlock and Peppenhausen
regimes. 1t has an absolute monopoly OF
traffic on Long Island extending from
Long Island City to Flatbush avenue,
Brooklyn, nearly the entire length of the
island, to Greenpoint and Montauk. 1t
has branches that connect with every point
Of interest on the north and south side OF
Long Island and together with its Coney
Island and Rockland Beach systems has
made Mr.. Corbin multi-millionaire.
Mr.. Corbin was born in Newport, N.
H., about Is miles from Windsor, in
1927. He graduated from the Harvard
law school and began the practice in New
port in 1S49, but went to Davenport, Ia,
later, practicing law there until 1854, when
he formed a partnership with banker.
Their bank was the only one in Daven-
port which did not suspend payment in the
panic Of 1857 and thereby acquired great
prestige. Mr.. Corbin subsequently organ
lied at Davenport one Of the first national
banks in the country. In 1865 he went to
New York and founded the Corbin Bank
ing company.
Mr.. Corbin's game preserve at Newport
is famous. 1t is called Blue Mountain
Forest. 1t is 10 IL miles long and four
miles wide and contains nearly 10000
acres. The whole is surrounded by wire
fence. 1t contains elk, deer, buffalo, wild
boar and half dozen other kinds Of big
game, numbering in all probability 150C
head. The whole place is theirs and they
live as wild as they ever lived. Mr.. Cor
bin visited the place about once year
with friends and there were some great
hunts there.
l Mr.. Corbin left widow, two daughters
and son, who is a student in Harvard
, college.