The record-union., 1896-06-05
AUSTIN CORBIN DEAD.
MET WITH AN ACCIDENT AT HIS
NEWPORT HOME.
His Carriage Overturned, Throwing
Him Down an Embankment
Against a Stone Wall.

NEWPORT On. H.), June 4.-Austil
Corbin, the New York capitalist and
railroad magnate, and hiS, nephew,
Corbin Edgell, with DR.. Paul Kunzier
and Coachman John Stokes, started on
a fishing trip about 3 o'clock this after
noon. On going out of the yard the
horses SHE'D, tipping over the open
carriage, throwing the occupants down
an embankment about eight feet
against stone wall. The family saw
the accident from the piazza, and came
to their assistance with the farm help
They found Mr.. Corbin conscious, but
terribly injured. His nephew and the
doctor were also conscious. The coach
man was unconscious and apparently
hurt the worst of all. They were carried
to the house and doctors summoned.
Mr.. Corbin's injuries were very seri-
Gus, compound fracture of the right
leg above the knee, a fearful scalp
wound over four inches long Oh the
forehead, cut through to the skull, one
on the right side of the head three
inches long, and the hip and chin cut
badly.
Dr. Kunzier was thrown over the
wall, and sustained a broken arm and
sprained ankle, so far as known, and
Corbin Edgell had his leg twice broken
between the knee and ankle. John
Stokes right leg was broken between
the knee and ankle, and he sustained
fractured skull. Stokes died from his
injuries about 6 o'clock without re-
gaining consciousness.
The cause of the horses shying is
said to be from the fact that the coach
man was driving them for the first
time without binders.
Mr.. Corbin died at 9:42 this evening,
shortly after the arrival of DR.. Cylley
from Boston. His son, Austin Corbin,
Jr., arrived on a special train from
Boston about IL o'clock, but too late
to see his father alive. All the other
members of the family, with the excep-
ton of his son-in-law, George S. Ed
gell, who is in the West, were present
when he breathed his last.
Austin Corbin was born in Newport,
N. H., July IL, 1927. His father was a
farmer, and was many times elected to
the Legislature of New Hampshire
After receiving a moderate amount of
schooling he taught a country school.
He afterward studied law with Chief
Justice Cushing of Rhode Island, and
finished the course at the Harvard
Law School. where he received his de-
gree in 1S43. He practiced while at
home, but in 1851 removed to Daven-
port, Iowa, where he remained until
1865.
Though successful as a lawyer, Mr..
Corbin did not practice long. He be-
came partner in 1854 of the banking
firm of Macklot & Corbin, which was
the only concern of the kind in Daven-
port which did not suspend payment
in the financial panic of 1857. Corbin
organized the First National Bank,
which began business under the Ma
tional Currency Act of 1863. The bank
was successful, and Mr. Corbin was en-
abled in 1865 to come to New York
with a considerable fortune. Here he
founded the Corbin Banking Company,
and acquired interest after interest,
until he became one of the leading
financiers of the community.
Mr.. Corbin had beautiful home
on Long Island and another in New
Hampshire, besides his town houses.
His New Hampshire property consisted
Of 25,O0O acres around Newport, all
mountain and valley. This last Prop
erty is the greatest and best stocked
game preserve on the continent.