Abel Corbin

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Abel Rathbone Corbin (May 24, 1808 - March 28, 1881) was an American financier and the husband of Virginia Grant, making him brother-in-law of Ulysses S. Grant. He was involved in the Black Friday stock market crash of September 24, 1869.

Corbin was born in Otsego, New York to Eliakim Lyon Corbin and Lodama Corbin. He and Virginia Paine Grant were married on May 13, 1869 in Covington, Kentucky. She was his second wife. They had one child, Jennie Corbin, who died as an infant. Abel Corbin died in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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