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George C. Corbin

George C. Corbin was a Hillsborough tobacco man and twice the town's mayor. In 1881 he was traveling for Webb & Co., the Hillsborough tobacco manufacturers, and he was a partner in the firm with James Webb Jr. and Joseph C. Webb until it was dissolved in February 1887. Voters elected him mayor in 1883 and again in 1886. By the late 1890s he was living in Danville, Virginia.

Source: Orange County Observer, May 8, 1886

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  1. Hillsborough re-elects Mayor George C. Corbin and a seven-man town board At the town election George C. Corbin was returned as mayor without opposition, receiving all but four of the votes cast, and seven commissioners were chosen, among them Jos. G. Cooley, Thomas Hedgpeth and W. N. Anderson. The new board organized the next night and chose its town officers. People: Joseph G. Cooley Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas Hedgpeth, W. N. AndersonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 10, 1884, p. 3
  2. Hillsborough elects editor Joseph A. Harris mayor Hillsborough voters chose Joseph A. Harris, editor of the Orange County Observer, as mayor, with A. W. Graham, James Webb Jr., W. H. Newman, George C. Corbin, W. E. Steward, J. W. Hooker and D. M. Laws as commissioners. The outgoing mayor, Corbin, had declined to run again. People: Joseph A. Harris, James Webb Jr., George C. Corbin, Augustus Washington Graham, J. W. Hooker, Dudley M. Laws Place: Hillsborough · Also named: W. H. Newman, W. E. StewardSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 9, 1885, p. 3
  3. D. C. Parks is elected a Hillsborough town commissioner At a quiet town election Hillsborough chose George C. Corbin mayor and elected A. W. Graham, James Webb Jr., J. W. Hooker, William Anderson, D. M. Laws, D. C. Parks and William H. Newman commissioners. People: David C. Parks, James Webb Jr., George C. Corbin, Augustus Washington Graham, J. W. Hooker, Dudley M. Laws Place: Hillsborough · Also named: William Anderson, William H. NewmanSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 8, 1886, p. 3
  4. The Webb & Co. tobacco partnership in Hillsborough is dissolved James Webb Jr., Joseph C. Webb and George C. Corbin gave notice that their tobacco manufacturing firm, Webb & Co., was dissolved, leaving the two Webbs to collect its debts and wind up its business. The firm had been making tobacco in Hillsborough since at least 1881. People: James Webb Jr., George C. Corbin Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Joseph C. WebbSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 26, 1887, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 15, 1881, p. 3
  5. James Webb Jr. and Joseph C. Webb buy town lot 94 in Hillsborough George C. Corbin, who had bought the property in 1878, sold the land and house on Hillsborough's lot 94 to James Webb Jr. and Joseph C. Webb. James Webb sold the lot to the Methodist church for a parsonage in 1903. People: James Webb Jr., George C. Corbin Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Joseph C. Webb, James WebbSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 110

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