Miscellaneous

A Family of Fighters - Corbin Family

Chenango Union, February 6, 1896

 

The Bainbridge Republican has the following about the Corbin Family:  From correspondence with Lemuel Healy, Town Clerk of Dudley, Mass., and with persons in Connecticut, it is found that 15 male members of the Corbin family were soldiers of the Revolutionary war.  They all hailed from Dudley, Mass., and Woodstock, Conn., the latter at that time being a part of the colony of Massachusetts.  All are buried near the home of their youthful days.  The following are the names of the Corbin heroes:  Amasa Corbin, Asa Corbin, Asahel Corbin, Clement Corbin, Daniel Corbin, David Corbin, Elijah Corbin, Elisha Corbin, Eliphalet Corbin, Elhajah Corbin, John Corbin, Jonathan Corbin, Moses Corbin, Peter Corbin, William Corbin--Worcester (Mass.) Spy.  There are several families of Corbins residing in the town of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], William H., Chester and Devillo Corbin who are direct descendants of the above mentioned William Corbin.  Clement Corbin came direct from England.  After the Revolutionary war the Corbins scattered, many of them settled in this State.  [Chenango Union, Feb. 6, 1896]

 

Thomas Collins, 3rd, To be Listed in College Who's Who

Bainbridge News & Republican, December 4, 1941

 

Word has been received by Thomas Collins, Sr., that his grandson, Thomas Collins, 3rd, of Westfield, Mass., who formerly attended the Bainbridge School [Chenango Co., NY], has been chosen as one of 10 seniors of Springfield College who will be listed in the Student's Who's Who publication.  More than 600 Universities cooperate in producing this volume which will be released in January.  Students are selected on the basis of character, leadership, scholarship and potentialities.  Mr. Collins is an honor student in the health and physical education division, and has also been very active in athletics.  With the inclusion of Mr. Collins in this book, the number of Bainbridge students listed in it is brought to three.  In November, 1940, James Ryan, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.F. Ryan, senior at St. Bonaventure's College, had the distinction of being the first Bainbridge student ever to be listed in the book.  In December, 1940, Georgiana Hovey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hovey, became the first local girl to be listed.  She was then a senior at Schauffler College.  Both Mr. Ryan and Miss Hovey were graduates of Bainbridge Central High School. 

 

John Parsons Re-Elected as Mayor of this Village

Bainbridge News & Republican, March 19, 1942

 

John A. Parsons, general manager of the American Plastics Corp., was elected mayor of the village of Bainbridge Tuesday, polling 34 votes out of 34 cast.  Arthur Clark, Kenneth Eldred and Milton Simonds were elected members of the Board of Trustees each polling 33 votes out of 34 cast.  An organization meeting will be held next Monday night and the regular session will be held the first Monday evening in April.  The deed of the National Milk Sugar Co. was transferred ot the Village of Bainbridge, Wednesday, according to Mayor Parsons.  The property is located at the corner of Front street and East Main street and was purchased primarily for the two deep wells on the property to increase the local water supply. 

 

Board Will Accept Married Teachers

Bainbridge News & Republican, July 23, 1942

 

Discarding a precedent of several years standing, the Bainbridge Central School Board of Education voted at their last meeting to disregard custom for facts and practical measures, and have agreed that married teachers may be engaged to join the faculty of the local school.  The residents of Bainbridge, asked previously to vote their opinions on this matter, gave their approval, and, after weighing the matter, the Board decided to do the same.  For several years it has been the policy of the Board not to continue hiring women teachers after their marriage, and the new ruling now abolishes this.  With the war taking so many of the capable men instructors, it is easily seen that this measure is justified.  Also, after a teacher has given years of service to her work and becomes almost indispensable to pupils and faculty alike, it is fair neither to the school nor to herself to consider her ineligible to continue her teaching after marriage.  Students must be given the best of help and that help must be obtained for them, overruling foolish customs.

 

Carlton Hayes Honored

Bainbridge News & Republican, Sept. 3, 1942

 

The New York Times, the Christian Science monitor, and some of the other daily papers, all gave prominent mention early this week to the improved condition of public relations between the United States and Spain.  Included in the articles were tributes paid to President Roosevelt's new ambassador to Spain, Professor Carlton J. Hayes, of Columbia University.  A quotation from the New York Sunday Times follows: 

"According to information available in Washington, today, these prospects (of improved relations between Spain and the United States) are considerably better as a result of the work of Professor Carlton J.H. Hayes, of Columbia University, a distinguished Catholic historian who took over our Embassy in Madrid a few months ago, supplemented by our efforts to provide General Franco with the petroleum products and other things necessary to maintain Spanish economy." 

 

Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] should be doubly proud of Professor Hayes not only because he represents a diplomatic section of the government, but also because he lived in this section for years and was a member of St. John's Catholic Church here.