Abel Rathbone Corbin was an American

United States

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 financier and the husband of Virginia Grant, sister of President Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

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. He was involved in the Black Friday

Black Friday (1869)

Black Friday, September 24, 1869 also known as the Fisk/Gould scandal, was a financial panic in the United States caused by two speculators’ efforts to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange. It was one of several scandals that rocked the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant...

stock market crash

Stock market crash

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 of September 24, 1869.

Corbin was born in Otsego, New York

Otsego, New York

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 to Eliakim Lyon Corbin and Lodama (née Rathbone) Corbin. He married on May 13, 1869, in Covington, Kentucky

Covington, Kentucky

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, to Virginia Grant as his second wife. They had one child, Jennie Corbin, who died as an infant. Abel's first marriage, to Widow Elizabeth (née Lewis) McAllister (1794-1868), also had no surviving issue. Abel Corbin died in Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City, New Jersey

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