Early Years
Henry Corbett was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, on February 18, 1827. Of English descent, his parents were Elijah and Melinda Corbett. In 1831, he moved with his parents to the town of White Creek, New York in 1831. Corbett attended the local common schools and then engaged in mercantile pursuits in Cambridge, New York, starting in 1840. There he also attended Cambridge Academy before he moved to New York City in 1843 and was employed in the mercantile business there until 1851.
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