An Account of Oakland County / edited by Lillian Drake Avery.

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HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

Oakland county, in the autumn of 1844, and he became the owner of
1,000 acres of land, 600 acres of his estate being in Oxford township.
He was a skilled artisan at the carpenter trade and erected many of
the pioneer houses in Oakland county. This honored pioneer passed
more than sixty years of his life at Oxford, where he died July 20,
1905, his widow having passed away June 1, 1908. Doctor Corbit is
indebted to the public schools of Oxford for her early education and
was graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1893.
Her ambition to fit herself for the exacting profession in which she
has since achieved success and prestige found expression when she
was matriculated in the medical department of the University of
Michigan, where she continued her studies until her graduation, June
19, 1902, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. She made registration with the state medical board on the 23d of the following
month, and on the 22d of October of the same year was solemnized
her marriage to Robert M. Corbit. They forthwith established their
residence at Wyoming, Jones county, Iowa, and there Doctor Corbit
continued in the successful practice of her profession until 1914, when
she and her husband returned to Oxford, Michigan, where she has
since continued her able and successful professional service and where
her husband is engaged in the active practice of law. Doctor Corbit
served as vice-president of the Jones County (Iowa) Medical Society,
is a charter member of the Oakland County Medical Society, and has
membership also in the Michigan State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association, through which, as well as through
constant study and research, she has kept in close touch with the
advances made in medical and surgical science. Doctor Corbit, on
the 5th of February, 1918, was organizing regent of John Crawford
chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and she has
since continued one of its influential and popular members. She is
an active member also of the L. S. Club of Oxford, is affiliated with
the Eastern Star, and she and her husband have membership in the
Congregational church. Her one child, Clarence John, born August
24, 1903, was graduated in the Oxford high school in 1920 and in
Olivet College as a member of the class of 1925. Clarence Corbit is
an accomplished musician, having specialized in the theory of music
and orchestra work in Olivet College, is a fine clarinetist and pianist;
is a member of the Congregational church and of Oxford Lodge No.
84, F. & A. M. Doctor Corbit is not only one of the representative
physicians and surgeons of her native county but has also given four
years of very efficient service as health officer of the village of Oxford,
where she has done much to improve sanitary conditions and otherwise safeguard the communal health. Hers is the deepest of interest
in the history of Oakland county, where she is a representative of
prominent and influential pioneer families, as the earlier record in
this review clearly indicates.
Alverdo A. Corwin, a man of sterling character and marked business ability, left a definite and worthy impress upon the civic and
business annals of the city of Pontiac, where his interests were of im