Percy Lyle Corbin papers 1915-1923 (bulk 1921-1923)

1915-1923

BHS 274

1 box (21 folders).

This collection contains letters, mainly incoming, both personal and business, as well as some family correspondence, and condolence letters written on the death of Marian Haylett Corbin.

Percy Corbin worked as a university and state secretary for the Young Men's Christian Association between 1910 and 1916, in various states. With the outbreak of war, he worked for the Y.M.C.A. on the Italian front. While Corbin was overseas his wife and his daughter Alice Louise Corbin moved to Boulder. When the war ended in 1918, he left the Y.M.C.A. work and became the local agent for the New York Life Insurance Company in Boulder.
Percy Lyle Corbin was the resident agent for the New York Life Insurance Company in Boulder, Colorado, 1918-1923, with offices at 1933 13th Street. In 1910 Corbin married Marian Louise Haylett, whom he met while both were students at Ohio Wesleyan University; shortly afterward they moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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Correspondence.
Documents.

Corbin, Percy Lyle 1884-1969

Alsbury, Ray W [1919]-1984

Corbin, Percy Lyle, 1884-1969
Corbin, Marian Louise Haylett, 1883-1922
New York Life Insurance Company--Records and correspondence
Ohio Wesleyan University--Records and correspondence
YMCA (Boulder, Colo.)
Business enterprises--Colorado--Boulder

Donor: Ray Alsbury Boulder, CO. Gift 1982

These papers were found by Ray Alsbury in his office over China Jones at 1216 Pearl Street.

This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.