Formerly treasurer of Macoupin County, was born in Greene county, in this state, November 13, 1842. He belongs to a family of English descent. His grandfather, Luther Corbin, was a native of Connecticut, and about the year 1805 removed to Madison County, in Central New York. His father, Calvin L. Corbin, was born and raised in Madison County, New York, and emigrated when a young man to Illinois. This was the year 1839; and he settled near Carrollton, in Greene County, and in 140 married Mrs. Clarissa Eldred. Her maiden name was Brace; she was born in Herkimer County, New York, and came to Greene County, in this state, in 1827. The only child by this marriage was L. B. Corbin. His father purchased the farm in Polk township, where Mr. Corbin now resides, in the fall of 1850; moved on it in 1851, and resided there till his death, in 1865.

The subject of this biography was in his ninth year when he came to Macoupin county. His education he obtained partly at home (his father was a school teacher, and for thirteen years taught school in New York and Illinois), partly at a district school in Polk township, and in a private school taught by the Rev. W. R. Adams, at Carlinville, which he attended in the winter of 1860-61. During the war of the Rebellion in 1862, then not twenty years of age, he enlisted in the 122d Illinois regiment, commanded by Col. Rinaker. He was with the regiment in its campaigns in Tennessee and Mississippi, and in the fall of 1863, was placed on detached duty as quartermaster's sergeant of the pioneer corps of the 4th Division of the 15th Army Corps. he was with Sherman on his celebrated march from "Atlanta to the Sea", and subsequently rejoined his regiment. He returned home in August, 1865, and the following October his father died. He was married December 25th, 1866, to Miss Sarah J. Cooley, a native of Massachusetts, who died in 1872. His present wife, whom he married in May, 18i74, was Annie E. Leaton, daughter, of the Rev. James Leaton, D.D., a Methodist minister, well known in this state. Mrs. Corbin's native place is Quincy.

Mr. Corbin has two children by his second marriage. he is a republican in politics. He has been assessor of the township, and in 1875, without solicitation on his part, was made the republican and independent candidate for county treasurer, and was elected. His farm in Polk township comprises 380 acres.