Annapolis Spectator, Friday, September 29, 1899
Death of Arthur Wellington Corbitt, Esquire
On Monday last our community received a sad shock when the news spread rapidly that the venerable fellow citizen whose name heads this article had suddenly passed away. Mr. Corbitt was born April 30th, 1819, and was therefore 80 years and nearly five months old. . . On Sunday evening he was in his accustomed place at church and on Monday at about 11 0'clock was seen on the streets by his friends, looking as well as usual. About this time he visited the place of business of his son-in-law opposite his residence and returning home looked after some ordinary routine work that was being done about his premises, after which he came in, and evidently suffering from a little disturbance of the stomach or nausea, lay down on a sofa and in a few moments at about a quarter before twelve, quietly breathed his last; the immediate cause of death being probably a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. He was a great-grandson of Isaiah Corbitt whose name is found in the census rolls of Annapolis county as early as 1768 and who is supposed to have come from Massachusetts with the early or preloyalist settlers. He was a grandson of Ambrose Alvan Corbitt, through the latter's eldest son Ichabod Corbitt, who was for over sixty years the respected school master of the town . . . Mr. Corbitt, after receiving a sound education from his father, married Jan 15, 1845, Miss Ellen Holland of Clements, who proved a worthy helpmeet, and has always been highly esteemed in the community. He at first proposed to devote himself to farming pursuits, but after a protracted illness, he as early as 1844, abandoned agriculture for a mercantile career. In the sixties and seventies, (after 1872 at the head of the firm of AW Corbitt & Sons) he carried on the largest shipping and lumber business in the county. Throughout the circle of an immense acquaintance, in the province and abroad, he was recognized as a man of great enterprise, untiring industry, business habits and strict rectitude of character. He was a strong friend of temperance, more actively so in his later years, and aided in every religious and moral movement in his native community. He was president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; and it was to his thoughtful care that the public drinking fountain on St. George Street was established for the benefit of man and beast alike. . . He was for about forty years a Justice of Peace, and also long held the office of a Commissioner in the Supreme Court and issuer of Marriage Licenses. He was appointed post master at Annapolis in 1881, and acted until 1896 . . . He was also a member of the first Municipal Council of the county where he represented Ward 10 for several years when he resigned. In politics he was a Conservative . . . In religion he was attached to the church of his venerable father with a fervent devotion and love . . . In short, he was a strong churchman of the old school; content to accept the teachings of the prayer book and of the fathers of the English church to this country . . . In his younger days he often filled the office of Church Warden and for over thirty years immediately previous to his death with or perhaps two annual breaks he had served on the vestry of St. Luke's Church. Besides some children who died in childhood, or early youth, and the first wife of John B. Mills, Esquire he had two sons and one daughter who survive him, George E. Corbitt, Esquire, our well known merchant; Samuel who resides in Seattle, and Mrs HA West, and several grandchildren; who with his bereaved widow, mourn the loss of one to whom they were tenderly devoted . . . The funeral took place on Wednesday, at 3 o'clock, and was very largely attended.
Death of Arthur Wellington Corbitt, Esquire
On Monday last our community received a sad shock when the news spread rapidly that the venerable fellow citizen whose name heads this article had suddenly passed away. Mr. Corbitt was born April 30th, 1819, and was therefore 80 years and nearly five months old. . . On Sunday evening he was in his accustomed place at church and on Monday at about 11 0'clock was seen on the streets by his friends, looking as well as usual. About this time he visited the place of business of his son-in-law opposite his residence and returning home looked after some ordinary routine work that was being done about his premises, after which he came in, and evidently suffering from a little disturbance of the stomach or nausea, lay down on a sofa and in a few moments at about a quarter before twelve, quietly breathed his last; the immediate cause of death being probably a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. He was a great-grandson of Isaiah Corbitt whose name is found in the census rolls of Annapolis county as early as 1768 and who is supposed to have come from Massachusetts with the early or preloyalist settlers. He was a grandson of Ambrose Alvan Corbitt, through the latter's eldest son Ichabod Corbitt, who was for over sixty years the respected school master of the town . . . Mr. Corbitt, after receiving a sound education from his father, married Jan 15, 1845, Miss Ellen Holland of Clements, who proved a worthy helpmeet, and has always been highly esteemed in the community. He at first proposed to devote himself to farming pursuits, but after a protracted illness, he as early as 1844, abandoned agriculture for a mercantile career. In the sixties and seventies, (after 1872 at the head of the firm of AW Corbitt & Sons) he carried on the largest shipping and lumber business in the county. Throughout the circle of an immense acquaintance, in the province and abroad, he was recognized as a man of great enterprise, untiring industry, business habits and strict rectitude of character. He was a strong friend of temperance, more actively so in his later years, and aided in every religious and moral movement in his native community. He was president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; and it was to his thoughtful care that the public drinking fountain on St. George Street was established for the benefit of man and beast alike. . . He was for about forty years a Justice of Peace, and also long held the office of a Commissioner in the Supreme Court and issuer of Marriage Licenses. He was appointed post master at Annapolis in 1881, and acted until 1896 . . . He was also a member of the first Municipal Council of the county where he represented Ward 10 for several years when he resigned. In politics he was a Conservative . . . In religion he was attached to the church of his venerable father with a fervent devotion and love . . . In short, he was a strong churchman of the old school; content to accept the teachings of the prayer book and of the fathers of the English church to this country . . . In his younger days he often filled the office of Church Warden and for over thirty years immediately previous to his death with or perhaps two annual breaks he had served on the vestry of St. Luke's Church. Besides some children who died in childhood, or early youth, and the first wife of John B. Mills, Esquire he had two sons and one daughter who survive him, George E. Corbitt, Esquire, our well known merchant; Samuel who resides in Seattle, and Mrs HA West, and several grandchildren; who with his bereaved widow, mourn the loss of one to whom they were tenderly devoted . . . The funeral took place on Wednesday, at 3 o'clock, and was very largely attended.
Annapolis Spectator, Friday, September 29, 1899
Death of Arthur Wellington Corbitt, Esquire
On Monday last our community received a sad shock when the news spread rapidly that the venerable fellow citizen whose name heads this article had suddenly passed away. Mr. Corbitt was born April 30th, 1819, and was therefore 80 years and nearly five months old. . . On Sunday evening he was in his accustomed place at church and on Monday at about 11 0'clock was seen on the streets by his friends, looking as well as usual. About this time he visited the place of business of his son-in-law opposite his residence and returning home looked after some ordinary routine work that was being done about his premises, after which he came in, and evidently suffering from a little disturbance of the stomach or nausea, lay down on a sofa and in a few moments at about a quarter before twelve, quietly breathed his last; the immediate cause of death being probably a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. He was a great-grandson of Isaiah Corbitt whose name is found in the census rolls of Annapolis county as early as 1768 and who is supposed to have come from Massachusetts with the early or preloyalist settlers. He was a grandson of Ambrose Alvan Corbitt, through the latter's eldest son Ichabod Corbitt, who was for over sixty years the respected school master of the town . . . Mr. Corbitt, after receiving a sound education from his father, married Jan 15, 1845, Miss Ellen Holland of Clements, who proved a worthy helpmeet, and has always been highly esteemed in the community. He at first proposed to devote himself to farming pursuits, but after a protracted illness, he as early as 1844, abandoned agriculture for a mercantile career. In the sixties and seventies, (after 1872 at the head of the firm of AW Corbitt & Sons) he carried on the largest shipping and lumber business in the county. Throughout the circle of an immense acquaintance, in the province and abroad, he was recognized as a man of great enterprise, untiring industry, business habits and strict rectitude of character. He was a strong friend of temperance, more actively so in his later years, and aided in every religious and moral movement in his native community. He was president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; and it was to his thoughtful care that the public drinking fountain on St. George Street was established for the benefit of man and beast alike. . . He was for about forty years a Justice of Peace, and also long held the office of a Commissioner in the Supreme Court and issuer of Marriage Licenses. He was appointed post master at Annapolis in 1881, and acted until 1896 . . . He was also a member of the first Municipal Council of the county where he represented Ward 10 for several years when he resigned. In politics he was a Conservative . . . In religion he was attached to the church of his venerable father with a fervent devotion and love . . . In short, he was a strong churchman of the old school; content to accept the teachings of the prayer book and of the fathers of the English church to this country . . . In his younger days he often filled the office of Church Warden and for over thirty years immediately previous to his death with or perhaps two annual breaks he had served on the vestry of St. Luke's Church. Besides some children who died in childhood, or early youth, and the first wife of John B. Mills, Esquire he had two sons and one daughter who survive him, George E. Corbitt, Esquire, our well known merchant; Samuel who resides in Seattle, and Mrs HA West, and several grandchildren; who with his bereaved widow, mourn the loss of one to whom they were tenderly devoted . . . The funeral took place on Wednesday, at 3 o'clock, and was very largely attended.
Death of Arthur Wellington Corbitt, Esquire
On Monday last our community received a sad shock when the news spread rapidly that the venerable fellow citizen whose name heads this article had suddenly passed away. Mr. Corbitt was born April 30th, 1819, and was therefore 80 years and nearly five months old. . . On Sunday evening he was in his accustomed place at church and on Monday at about 11 0'clock was seen on the streets by his friends, looking as well as usual. About this time he visited the place of business of his son-in-law opposite his residence and returning home looked after some ordinary routine work that was being done about his premises, after which he came in, and evidently suffering from a little disturbance of the stomach or nausea, lay down on a sofa and in a few moments at about a quarter before twelve, quietly breathed his last; the immediate cause of death being probably a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. He was a great-grandson of Isaiah Corbitt whose name is found in the census rolls of Annapolis county as early as 1768 and who is supposed to have come from Massachusetts with the early or preloyalist settlers. He was a grandson of Ambrose Alvan Corbitt, through the latter's eldest son Ichabod Corbitt, who was for over sixty years the respected school master of the town . . . Mr. Corbitt, after receiving a sound education from his father, married Jan 15, 1845, Miss Ellen Holland of Clements, who proved a worthy helpmeet, and has always been highly esteemed in the community. He at first proposed to devote himself to farming pursuits, but after a protracted illness, he as early as 1844, abandoned agriculture for a mercantile career. In the sixties and seventies, (after 1872 at the head of the firm of AW Corbitt & Sons) he carried on the largest shipping and lumber business in the county. Throughout the circle of an immense acquaintance, in the province and abroad, he was recognized as a man of great enterprise, untiring industry, business habits and strict rectitude of character. He was a strong friend of temperance, more actively so in his later years, and aided in every religious and moral movement in his native community. He was president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; and it was to his thoughtful care that the public drinking fountain on St. George Street was established for the benefit of man and beast alike. . . He was for about forty years a Justice of Peace, and also long held the office of a Commissioner in the Supreme Court and issuer of Marriage Licenses. He was appointed post master at Annapolis in 1881, and acted until 1896 . . . He was also a member of the first Municipal Council of the county where he represented Ward 10 for several years when he resigned. In politics he was a Conservative . . . In religion he was attached to the church of his venerable father with a fervent devotion and love . . . In short, he was a strong churchman of the old school; content to accept the teachings of the prayer book and of the fathers of the English church to this country . . . In his younger days he often filled the office of Church Warden and for over thirty years immediately previous to his death with or perhaps two annual breaks he had served on the vestry of St. Luke's Church. Besides some children who died in childhood, or early youth, and the first wife of John B. Mills, Esquire he had two sons and one daughter who survive him, George E. Corbitt, Esquire, our well known merchant; Samuel who resides in Seattle, and Mrs HA West, and several grandchildren; who with his bereaved widow, mourn the loss of one to whom they were tenderly devoted . . . The funeral took place on Wednesday, at 3 o'clock, and was very largely attended.
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