corbaleya
Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The
Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties,
State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing
Co., 1904.
ALVARO L. CORBALEY resides about
one mile south from Waterville and in addition to doing general farming,
preaches the gospel. For sometime he has been one of the prominent
evangelists of the Church of God.
He was born in Marshall county, Indiana, on
January 1, 1862, the son of Richard and Jane (Croco) Corbaley. The
mother was born in 1827, in Holmes county, Ohio, being of Dutch extraction,
and is still living. The father was a native of Indiana, being the
first white child born in Marion county. He held various county offices
in Marshall county, was editor of the Plymouth Banner, and also
engaged in the practice of law. For the last forty-eight years of
his life he was a very prominent minister of the Church of God. His
death occurred at Waterville, on July 16, 1903. Our subject received
his primary education in the district schools of Indiana and completed
the same at Healdsburg Institute, of California. At the age of eighteen
he went to the mines in Butte county, California and spent two years in
prospecting, without material success. After this, he was occupied
in railroad service for a year and a half. It was in 1884, that he
accompanied his father to Douglas county and at that time he located on
a quarter section of land where he now lives and which he has brought to
a very high state of cultivation. Mr. Corbaley also raises and handles
stock. He has the following brothers and sisters, John A., William
G., Frank R., Platt M., and Marie C. Oppenheimer. William G. is a
prominent financier of California, but has recently on account of his health,
retired from more active duties. He lives in Berkeley and began life
as an engine wiper. He rose steadily through every department to
be superintendent of the road, which position he held for many years.
He was also a superintendent of the San Francisco Harbor Improvement Company
and also of the San Francisco Terra Cotta Company.
At Waterville, on July 22, 1888, Mr. Corbaley
married Miss Annie M., daughter of George W. and Jane (Hand) Gard, natives
of Ohio and Tennessee, respectively. Mrs. Corbaley was born in Lake
county, California, on June 6, 1871 and has the following brothers, Isaac,
Rees, James A., and Arthur. She also has two sisters, Martha Kelsey
and Estella Pierpoint. To Mr. and Mrs. Corbaley five children have
been born, named as follows: Paul W., on September 7, 1890; George R.,
on January 19, 1893; Glenn A., on September 16, 1897; Annie R., on June
5, 1899; and John, on June 3, 1903; all born in this county.
Mr. and Mrs. Corbaley are both members and
active workers in the Church of God and have a large circle of friends
throughout the country.
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