Show austin corbin whose tragic end lias has shocked the entire country was a typical IA american n horn on a new NL w england farm front from that narrow ile he rose to great and commanding vm em fience in the business world bred to tile the law ile he would anve lave achieved success lie in his chosen profession but ills his rare qualifications for general business led him away from it and instead of becoming eminent is 19 a lawyer and poll poli bichin lie he became famous as a 1 banker anil and railroad mang ger ills great intellectual qualities were foresight and the instantaneous power to net act the first lir it lings of ills his heart were tile s of ills hand band when lie he wont vent to iowa a young man of 21 24 2 1 the railroads had not net et ca osse d the mississippi hut lie he saw in the new state stafe of 0 virgin prairie of tin equaled richness awaiting only the arrival of the eastern emigrant and kist east arn n capital lie ile had but little money himself but lie he had that which command money the world over integrity and industry aided by capital front from new england lie entered the banking business and met with unexampled success and it was not many years before lie he found the western field too limited for ills his ambition in 1805 ho he removal rem oveil to new york and lie soon rose to be a recognized magnate in that center of finance when jay cooke failed N w liel was the forerunner of the of the cooke banking house houge was loaded down with northern pacific securities arid and these had to be thrown at onea onca upon the market mr corbin corban was wag aware that the bonds bonda ot of the road were convertible into railroad land at their par value and that this land in minnesota and dakota was the best wheat land in the world ire he bought and advised his friends to buy these bonds at the heavy discount they were going at and immediately took up with them large tracts of the northern pacific lands just at that time a heavy norwegian immigration was settling in toward minnesota and these settlers sett lors became purchasers of those these lands F from rom this one transaction mr chibin added largely to his own fortune and also made fortunes for a number of his f friends and this shows another of III his 3 striking characteristics lie ire did not net keep everything to himself but helped others to make money also any man mail who served him faithfully whether as clerk or agent or attorney had abundant chances to make money for himself one of his latest projects was wag the establishment of a port at fort bond bay at the eastern extremity of long island which will reduce tile the passage between new york and ion don by at least twenty four bouts bouis of aggressive temperament and of strict business habits mr corbin was a man who could not go through life without making ener enemies nies but ho he just as truly had hosts and hosts of friends and admirers who will long mourn his big sad and untimely death |