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'''Austin Corbin''' (July 11, 1827 – June 4, 1896) was a 19th-century American banking and railroad entrepreneur. He consolidated the rail lines on [[Long Island]], bringing them under the profitable umbrella of the [[Long Island Rail Road]] (LIRR). He was the owner of [[Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn|Manhattan Beach]], a resort in [[Brooklyn]], New York City, from which he barred Jews. He was also the owner of the [[Sunnyside Plantation]] in [[Chicot County, Arkansas]], from 1886 to his death in 1896, where he used [[Penal labor in the United States|convict laborers]] and later brought Italian immigrants to work on the land.
'''Austin Corbin''' (July 11, 1827 – June 4, 1896) was a 19th-century American banking and railroad entrepreneur. He consolidated the rail lines on [[Long Island]], bringing them under the profitable umbrella of the [[Long Island Rail Road]] (LIRR).


He was the owner of [[Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn|Manhattan Beach]], a resort in [[Brooklyn]], New York City, from which he barred [[Jews]]. He was also the owner of the [[Sunnyside Plantation]] in [[Chicot County, Arkansas]], from 1886 to his death in 1896, where he used [[Penal labor in the United States|convict laborers]] and later brought [[Italian people|Italian]] immigrants to work on the land.
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==Early life==

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Austin Corbin was born on July 11, 1827, in [[Newport, New Hampshire]], to Capt. Austin and Mary (Chase) Corbin, one of three siblings to survive infancy, along with Lois Corbin Dunton, (23 December 1819-7 July 1893), and Daniel Chase Corbin, (1 October 1832-29 June 1918). His brother, Daniel, was also a businessman, involved in banking and railroads, who contributed to the early growth of [[Spokane, Washington]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arksey |first1=Laura |title=Corbin, Daniel Chase, (1832-1918) |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/7960 |website=HistoryLink.org |access-date=31 August 2020 |date=Oct 4, 2006}}</ref>
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==Early life and education==
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Corbin was born on July 11, 1827, in [[Newport, New Hampshire]], to Capt. Austin and Mary (Chase) Corbin, one of three siblings to survive infancy, along with Lois Corbin Dunton (23 December 1819 – 7 July 1893), and Daniel Chase Corbin (1 October 1832 – 29 June 1918). His brother, Daniel, was also a businessman, involved in banking and railroads, who contributed to the early growth of [[Spokane, Washington]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arksey |first1=Laura |title=Corbin, Daniel Chase, (1832-1918) |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/7960 |website=HistoryLink.org |access-date=31 August 2020 |date=Oct 4, 2006}}</ref>

Corbin taught school for a short time to earn money for higher education. He graduated from [[Harvard Law School]] in 1849.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}


==Career==
==Career==
Corbin taught school for a short time to earn money for higher education. After graduating from [[Harvard Law School]] in 1849, he practiced law in his hometown until 1851, when he moved to [[Davenport, Iowa]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Wilson |editor1-first=James Grant |editor2-last=Fiske |editor2-first=John |title=Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography |date=1889 |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |location=New York, NY |page=676 |chapter=Corbin, Austin}}</ref>
Corbin practiced law in his hometown until 1851, when he moved to [[Davenport, Iowa]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Wilson |editor1-first=James Grant |editor2-last=Fiske |editor2-first=John |title=Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography |date=1889 |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |location=New York, NY |page=676 |chapter=Corbin, Austin}}</ref>


In 1854 he became a partner of the Macklot & Corbin banking firm, the only bank in Davenport to not suspend payments in the [[Panic of 1857|1857 financial panic]].<ref name=bostonglobe1896>{{cite news |title=Thrown from Carriage, Austin Corbin, Millionaire Banker, Dies at Newport, N. H. |agency=The Boston Daily Globe |date=5 Jun 1896 |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=5}}</ref> This success set him up to start the first national bank, when his cousin, Secretary of the Treasury [[Salmon P. Chase]], established the national banking system early in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref name=billin2004>{{cite news |last1=Billin |first1=Dan |title=Private game preserve has storied history |url=http://www.meyette.us/DanBillinCorbinParkArticle.htm |access-date=31 August 2020 |agency=Valley News |date=Jan 28, 2004}}</ref> By 1865, when Corbin moved to New York City, he was considered wealthy.<ref name=bostonglobe1896/>
In 1854, he became a partner of the Macklot & Corbin banking firm, the only bank in Davenport to not suspend payments in the [[Panic of 1857|1857 financial panic]].<ref name=bostonglobe1896>{{cite news |title=Thrown from Carriage, Austin Corbin, Millionaire Banker, Dies at Newport, N. H. |agency=The Boston Daily Globe |date=5 Jun 1896 |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=5}}</ref> This success set him up to start the first national bank, when his cousin, Secretary of the Treasury [[Salmon P. Chase]], established the national banking system early in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref name=billin2004>{{cite news |last1=Billin |first1=Dan |title=Private game preserve has storied history |url=http://www.meyette.us/DanBillinCorbinParkArticle.htm |access-date=31 August 2020 |agency=Valley News |date=Jan 28, 2004}}</ref> By 1865, when Corbin moved to New York City, he was considered wealthy.<ref name=bostonglobe1896/>


In New York, he founded the Corbin Banking Company, which he leveraged into a successful banking firm, which funded his diversifying into resorts and railroads. In 1873, while following doctors' advice of ocean air for his ill son on [[Coney Island]], Corbin recognized the area as an untapped natural location for a summer resort, and proceeded to purchase {{convert|500|acre}} over the next three years, opening a large hotel and a new railway system to deliver New Yorkers to the resort in 1878. Both were an instant success, rewarding Corbin and his associates substantially. He next turned his attention to, in contemporary views, the neglected Long Island area. In 1881, he acquired and consolidated the [[Long Island Rail Road]] (LIRR) with the [[South Side Railroad of Long Island]] known as the "Montauk" line and [[Flushing and North Side Railroad|Flushing and North Side]] railroads. Corbin greatly improved the railroad's infrastructure, which had fallen into disrepair after a period of cutthroat competition had thrown all the island's railroads into bankruptcy.<ref name=bostonglobe1896/><ref name=billin2004/>
In New York City, he founded the Corbin Banking Company, which he leveraged into a successful banking firm, which funded his diversifying into resorts and railroads. In 1873, while following doctors' advice of ocean air for his ill son on [[Coney Island]], Corbin recognized the area as an untapped natural location for a summer resort, and proceeded to purchase {{convert|500|acre}} over the next three years, opening a large hotel and a new railway system to deliver New Yorkers to the resort in 1878. Both were an instant success, rewarding Corbin and his associates substantially. He next turned his attention to, in contemporary views, the neglected Long Island area. In 1881, he acquired and consolidated the [[Long Island Rail Road]] (LIRR) with the [[South Side Railroad of Long Island]] known as the "Montauk" line and [[Flushing and North Side Railroad|Flushing and North Side]] railroads. Corbin greatly improved the railroad's infrastructure, which had fallen into disrepair after a period of cutthroat competition had thrown all the island's railroads into bankruptcy.<ref name=bostonglobe1896/><ref name=billin2004/>


[[File:FultonSt 8043 (8551553985) crop.jpg|thumb|[[Corbin Building]], Manhattan]]
[[File:FultonSt 8043 (8551553985) crop.jpg|thumb|[[Corbin Building]], Manhattan]]
Corbin's most ambitious plan was the {{convert|20|mi|adj=on}} extension of the rail line from [[Bridgehampton, New York|Bridgehampton]] to [[Montauk, New York]], where he planned to open a deepwater port so that trans-Atlantic passengers could shave a day off their voyages by taking the "mile a minute" trains {{convert|100|mi|-1}} to [[New York City]]. However, the plan never materialized, as the planned port at [[Fort Pond Bay]] in Montauk could not be dredged to handle the seagoing vessels.
Corbin's most ambitious plan was the {{convert|20|mi|adj=on}} extension of the rail line from [[Bridgehampton, New York|Bridgehampton]] to [[Montauk, New York]], where he planned to open a deepwater port so that trans-Atlantic passengers could shave a day off their voyages by taking the "mile a minute" trains {{convert|100|mi|-1}} to [[New York City]]. However, the plan never materialized, as the planned port at [[Fort Pond Bay]] in Montauk could not be dredged to handle the seagoing vessels.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}


Corbin's tactic included the infamous strong-arming (along with his cohorts) of the [[Montaukett]] tribe out of nearly {{convert|10000|acre|sqkm}} they owned around Montauk. The tribe is still seeking compensation for this tactic. Relics from the tribe are still visible at [[Camp Wikoff]] which the LIRR sold the government and where [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and his [[Rough Riders]] were quarantined after returning from the [[Spanish–American War]].
Corbin's tactic included the infamous strong-arming (along with his cohorts) of the [[Montaukett]] tribe out of nearly {{convert|10000|acre|sqkm}} they owned around Montauk. The tribe is still seeking compensation for this tactic. Relics from the tribe are still visible at [[Camp Wikoff]] which the LIRR sold the government and where [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and his [[Rough Riders]] were quarantined after returning from the [[Spanish–American War]].


Corbin acquired the [[Sunnyside Plantation]] in [[Chicot County, Arkansas]], from [[John C. Calhoun II]], the grandson of [[John C. Calhoun]] and brother of [[Patrick Calhoun]], in 1886.<ref name="gatewood">{{cite journal |last=Gatewood |first=Willard B, Jr. |title=Sunnyside: The Evolution of an Arkansas Plantation, 1840–1945 |journal=The Arkansas Historical Quarterly |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=5–29 |jstor=40022326 |date=Spring 1991 |doi=10.2307/40022326 }}</ref><ref name="marcmatranalostplantations">Marc R. Matrana, [https://books.google.com/books?id=D1YfPjRCucQC&dq=%22abner+johnson%22+kentucky&pg=PA41 ''Lost Plantations of the South''], Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp. 40–43</ref> In 1894, he entered into an agreement with the state of Arkansas whereby he was given 250 convict laborers to pick cotton for him; the profits were shared between Corbin and the state.<ref name="marcmatranalostplantations" /> Meanwhile, with the help of [[Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa]], who served as the [[Mayor of Rome]] from 1892 to 1899, he brought Italian immigrants to work on the plantation.<ref name="gatewood" /> However, Corbin was accused of [[Peon|"peonage."]]<ref name="gatewood" />
Corbin acquired the [[Sunnyside Plantation]] in [[Chicot County, Arkansas]], from [[John C. Calhoun II]], the grandson of [[John C. Calhoun]] and brother of [[Patrick Calhoun]], in 1886.<ref name="gatewood">{{cite journal |last=Gatewood |first=Willard B Jr. |title=Sunnyside: The Evolution of an Arkansas Plantation, 1840–1945 |journal=The Arkansas Historical Quarterly |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=5–29 |jstor=40022326 |date=Spring 1991 |doi=10.2307/40022326 }}</ref><ref name="marcmatranalostplantations">Marc R. Matrana, [https://books.google.com/books?id=D1YfPjRCucQC&dq=%22abner+johnson%22+kentucky&pg=PA41 ''Lost Plantations of the South''], Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp. 40–43</ref> In 1894, he entered into an agreement with the state of Arkansas whereby he was given 250 convict laborers to pick cotton for him; the profits were shared between Corbin and the state.<ref name="marcmatranalostplantations" /> Meanwhile, with the help of [[Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa]], who served as the [[Mayor of Rome]] from 1892 to 1899, he brought Italian immigrants to work on the plantation.<ref name="gatewood" /> However, Corbin was accused of "[[peon]]age."<ref name="gatewood" />


Corbin was the owner of the resort of [[Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn]].<ref name="marcmatranalostplantations" /> An [[antisemitism|antisemite]], he banned Jews from patronizing the resort.<ref name="marcmatranalostplantations" /> He also developed the [[Corbin Building]] in Manhattan between 1888 and 1889.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03001302.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: Corbin Building|date=December 18, 2003|publisher=[[National Register of Historic Places]], [[National Park Service]]|pages=8–9|access-date=2020-08-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Virginia|last=Kurshan|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2569.pdf|publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|title=Corbin Building|date=June 23, 2015|page=1|access-date=2020-08-06}}</ref>
Corbin was the owner of the resort of [[Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn]].<ref name="marcmatranalostplantations" /> An [[antisemitism|antisemite]], he banned Jews from patronizing the resort.<ref name="marcmatranalostplantations" /> He also developed the [[Corbin Building]] in Manhattan between 1888 and 1889.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03001302.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: Corbin Building|date=December 18, 2003|publisher=[[National Register of Historic Places]], [[National Park Service]]|pages=8–9|access-date=2020-08-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Virginia|last=Kurshan|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2569.pdf|publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|title=Corbin Building|date=June 23, 2015|page=1|access-date=2020-08-06}}</ref>
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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
He resided in a mansion in [[Newport, New Hampshire]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rivas|first=Ana|date=March 29, 2012|title=Secluded New Hampshire Estate|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304450004577277573526713742|access-date=2020-08-06|website=Wall Street Journal|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> He also owned a summer estate in [[North Babylon, New York]] along the shores of what is known today as Deer Lake in the Parkdale Estates neighborhood. His daughter married René Chéronnet-Champollion, a French artist and grandson of [[Jean-François Champollion]].<ref name="marcmatranalostplantations"/>
He resided in a mansion in [[Newport, New Hampshire]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rivas|first=Ana|date=March 29, 2012|title=Secluded New Hampshire Estate|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304450004577277573526713742|access-date=2020-08-06|website=Wall Street Journal|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> He also owned a summer estate in [[North Babylon, New York]] along the shores of what is known today as Deer Lake in the Parkdale Estates neighborhood. His daughter married René Chéronnet-Champollion, a French artist and grandson of [[Jean-François Champollion]].<ref name="marcmatranalostplantations"/>

Corbin built his large New Hampshire estate, and bought out his neighbors’ farms to create an 22,000 acre wildlife game preserve, which became a prestigious private hunting park and hosted notable guests, including [[Theodore Roosevelt]], the [[Prince of Wales]], [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]], [[Joe Dimaggio]], [[Rudyard Kipling]], and [[Augustus Saint Gaudens]].")<ref name="NH/Kronenwetter">{{cite web |last1=Kronenwetter |first1=Mary |title=Corbin's Animal Garden |url=https://www.nhhumanities.org/program/corbinrsquos-animal-garden |website=New Hampshire Humanities |publisher=New Hampshire Humanities |access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref> The preserve was stocked with boar, bighorn sheep, antelope, elk, Chinese pheasant, and other imported animals, but, most importantly, with some 150 bison. This enabled Corbin's park naturalist [[Ernest Harold Baynes]] to play a vital part in the saving of the American bison from extinction, a contribution highlighted in the 2023 [[Ken Burns]] [[PBS]] documentary "The American Buffalo."{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}


==Death and legacy==
==Death and legacy==
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Austin Corbin
Born(1827-07-11)July 11, 1827
Newport, New Hampshire, U.S.
DiedJune 4, 1896 (1896-06-05) (aged 68)
Newport, New Hampshire, U.S.
Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetery (The Bronx, New York City)
EducationHarvard Law School
Occupation(s)Banking and railroad businessman
SpouseHannah Maria Wheeler
ChildrenAustin Corbin, Isabella Corbin Edgell, Anna Corbin Borrowe, Mary Corbin Champollion
Parent(s)Capt. Austin and Mary (Chase) Corbin
RelativesDaniel Chase Corbin (brother), René Chéronnet-Champollion (son-in-law), Salmon P. Chase (cousin)
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Austin Corbin (July 11, 1827 – June 4, 1896) was a 19th-century American banking and railroad entrepreneur. He consolidated the rail lines on Long Island, bringing them under the profitable umbrella of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR).

He was the owner of Manhattan Beach, a resort in Brooklyn, New York City, from which he barred Jews. He was also the owner of the Sunnyside Plantation in Chicot County, Arkansas, from 1886 to his death in 1896, where he used convict laborers and later brought Italian immigrants to work on the land.

Early life and education

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Corbin was born on July 11, 1827, in Newport, New Hampshire, to Capt. Austin and Mary (Chase) Corbin, one of three siblings to survive infancy, along with Lois Corbin Dunton (23 December 1819 – 7 July 1893), and Daniel Chase Corbin (1 October 1832 – 29 June 1918). His brother, Daniel, was also a businessman, involved in banking and railroads, who contributed to the early growth of Spokane, Washington.[1]

Corbin taught school for a short time to earn money for higher education. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1849.[citation needed]

Career

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Corbin practiced law in his hometown until 1851, when he moved to Davenport, Iowa.[2]

In 1854, he became a partner of the Macklot & Corbin banking firm, the only bank in Davenport to not suspend payments in the 1857 financial panic.[3] This success set him up to start the first national bank, when his cousin, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, established the national banking system early in the Civil War.[4] By 1865, when Corbin moved to New York City, he was considered wealthy.[3]

In New York City, he founded the Corbin Banking Company, which he leveraged into a successful banking firm, which funded his diversifying into resorts and railroads. In 1873, while following doctors' advice of ocean air for his ill son on Coney Island, Corbin recognized the area as an untapped natural location for a summer resort, and proceeded to purchase 500 acres (200 ha) over the next three years, opening a large hotel and a new railway system to deliver New Yorkers to the resort in 1878. Both were an instant success, rewarding Corbin and his associates substantially. He next turned his attention to, in contemporary views, the neglected Long Island area. In 1881, he acquired and consolidated the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) with the South Side Railroad of Long Island known as the "Montauk" line and Flushing and North Side railroads. Corbin greatly improved the railroad's infrastructure, which had fallen into disrepair after a period of cutthroat competition had thrown all the island's railroads into bankruptcy.[3][4]

Corbin Building, Manhattan

Corbin's most ambitious plan was the 20-mile (32 km) extension of the rail line from Bridgehampton to Montauk, New York, where he planned to open a deepwater port so that trans-Atlantic passengers could shave a day off their voyages by taking the "mile a minute" trains 100 miles (160 km) to New York City. However, the plan never materialized, as the planned port at Fort Pond Bay in Montauk could not be dredged to handle the seagoing vessels.[citation needed]

Corbin's tactic included the infamous strong-arming (along with his cohorts) of the Montaukett tribe out of nearly 10,000 acres (40 km2) they owned around Montauk. The tribe is still seeking compensation for this tactic. Relics from the tribe are still visible at Camp Wikoff which the LIRR sold the government and where Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders were quarantined after returning from the Spanish–American War.

Corbin acquired the Sunnyside Plantation in Chicot County, Arkansas, from John C. Calhoun II, the grandson of John C. Calhoun and brother of Patrick Calhoun, in 1886.[5][6] In 1894, he entered into an agreement with the state of Arkansas whereby he was given 250 convict laborers to pick cotton for him; the profits were shared between Corbin and the state.[6] Meanwhile, with the help of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, who served as the Mayor of Rome from 1892 to 1899, he brought Italian immigrants to work on the plantation.[5] However, Corbin was accused of "peonage."[5]

Corbin was the owner of the resort of Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn.[6] An antisemite, he banned Jews from patronizing the resort.[6] He also developed the Corbin Building in Manhattan between 1888 and 1889.[7][8]

Personal life

[edit]

He resided in a mansion in Newport, New Hampshire.[9] He also owned a summer estate in North Babylon, New York along the shores of what is known today as Deer Lake in the Parkdale Estates neighborhood. His daughter married René Chéronnet-Champollion, a French artist and grandson of Jean-François Champollion.[6]

Corbin built his large New Hampshire estate, and bought out his neighbors’ farms to create an 22,000 acre wildlife game preserve, which became a prestigious private hunting park and hosted notable guests, including Theodore Roosevelt, the Prince of Wales, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Joe Dimaggio, Rudyard Kipling, and Augustus Saint Gaudens.")[10] The preserve was stocked with boar, bighorn sheep, antelope, elk, Chinese pheasant, and other imported animals, but, most importantly, with some 150 bison. This enabled Corbin's park naturalist Ernest Harold Baynes to play a vital part in the saving of the American bison from extinction, a contribution highlighted in the 2023 Ken Burns PBS documentary "The American Buffalo."[citation needed]

Death and legacy

[edit]

He died in a carriage accident near his country home in New Hampshire in 1896 at age 68.[11][12] He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.[13]

See also

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ Arksey, Laura (October 4, 2006). "Corbin, Daniel Chase, (1832-1918)". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  2. ^ Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Corbin, Austin". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company. p. 676.
  3. ^ a b c "Thrown from Carriage, Austin Corbin, Millionaire Banker, Dies at Newport, N. H.". Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Daily Globe. June 5, 1896. p. 5.
  4. ^ a b Billin, Dan (January 28, 2004). "Private game preserve has storied history". Valley News. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c Gatewood, Willard B Jr. (Spring 1991). "Sunnyside: The Evolution of an Arkansas Plantation, 1840–1945". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 50 (1): 5–29. doi:10.2307/40022326. JSTOR 40022326.
  6. ^ a b c d e Marc R. Matrana, Lost Plantations of the South, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp. 40–43
  7. ^ "Historic Structures Report: Corbin Building" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service. December 18, 2003. pp. 8–9. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  8. ^ Kurshan, Virginia (June 23, 2015). "Corbin Building" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. p. 1. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  9. ^ Rivas, Ana (March 29, 2012). "Secluded New Hampshire Estate". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  10. ^ Kronenwetter, Mary. "Corbin's Animal Garden". New Hampshire Humanities. New Hampshire Humanities. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
  11. ^ Discovering the Past: Writings of Jeannette Edwards Rattray, 1893-1974, by Jeannette Edwards Rattray and Tom Twomey, 2001, pg. 112.
  12. ^ "Austin Corbin Dead; Thrown Out of His Carriage at Newport, N. H." The New York Times. June 5, 1896. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  13. ^ ""Last Forever" - New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News". WNYC. May 18, 2002. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
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