Silas B. Corbin Family - 1902

Picture sent to me by Bill Gough from his mother Eleanor (Corbin) Gough's photo album.

Comments from Bill ....The Silas B. Corbin Family, taken in 1902. From left to right, my grandfather John, Elizabeth (Betty or Bessie), Silas, Byron and Ella (Spofford). John was 18, Betty 16 and Byron 13 years old in the picture. Silas' brothers Horace and Samuel were businessmen in Union City, in dry goods sales. The Corbin brothers came to Union City from Charlestown, New Hampshire, during the early 1860s. They were descendants of the Puritans.

Betty went on to be a teacher at a private school in Highland Park, MI, Byron became a professor of chemistry at the Teachers College (now Eastern Michigan University) in Ypsilanti. John, of course, took over the farm from Silas, but he was also president of the Union City National Bank, the Branch County Community Corporation, and was a member of the Branch County Hospital Board. He was also a deacon at the Congregational Church.