Robert Boake Corwin, Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 1 December 2004

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Turtlecreek Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)
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Image from 22 March, 1906 obituary in the Western Star contributed by Arne H Trelvik 29 May 2004


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ROBERT B. CORWIN, hardware merchant, Lebanon, was born near Lebanon, Ohio, July 4, 1842. His grandfather, Ichabod Corwin, emigrated to Ohio from Kentucky and settled near where the town of Lebanon now stands, in the autumn of 1795; he was one of the first settlers of what is now Warren Co., and from him have sprung many of the families that now people the county; he was married in Kentucky to Miss Sarah Griffin of Bourbon Co., Ky.; by her he had three children, viz., Moses B., William and Mary, born before he moved to Ohio, and nine during his residence here, viz.: Eliza, Jesse B., Lucinda, James H, Elvira, Ichabod, Julia A., Robert G. and Matthias. Of these, Jesse B., our subject’s father, was an honest and prosperous farmer, full of wit, anecdote and fun, but a pious and Godly gentleman; he married Miss Rebecca Knox, daughter of an old family who came to Warren County from the North of Ireland at an early day. Their union was blessed with an issue of six children, of whom Robert B., our subject was the youngest; he received his education in the country schools and at the National Normal School of Lebanon. He assisted his father on the farm until after the breaking our of the war, and in the summer of 1863 enlisted in Co. B, 2d O.H.A. under Capt. Oltrock; he served at Bowling Green, Chattanooga, Cleveland, Charleston, Knoxville and London; Tenn., and in the summer of 1865 was discharged from the hospital

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at Knoxville on account of a disease of the eyes, contracted while in the service. After the war he entered the hardware store or Irons & Lingo, where he remained as a clerk two years, and then, in company with J. R. Drake, opened a hardware store in Lebanon under the firm name of Corwin & Drake. He soon became sole proprietor, and has since so continued with the exception of a short time, when John Mull, Esq., was associated with him. On the 28th of December, 1876, he married Miss Sallie, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Bankson) Baker, old residents of Lebanon. By her he has had two children, both boys, living, viz., Gilbert B. and F. Howard G. Mr. Corwin is a member of the East Baptist Church of Lebanon, and of the Odd Fellows Lodge and Knights of Pythias. He is a polite gentlemen, an earnest church worker and a good citizen, but lacks the jovial humor and story-telling qualities characteristic of his father’s family.

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