Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Rufus CORBETT, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Wilmington; owns 101 acres, valued at $50 per acre; 
held the offices of Highway Commissioner and School Director eleven years; born Feb. 26, 
1811, in Kennebec Co., Me. Married Mary A. CURRIER Nov. 13, 1844; they emigrated to Illinois 
that fall, locating near Joliet, this county; there Mr. CORBETT rented what is known as 
the KINSEY Farm, in partnership with Dr. HOFFMAN, for one year; thence to the farm where he 
now resides in 1846, his family staying at the residence of A. HILL until he built the house 
in which be resides at present, which residence they had covered and occupied as soon as 
Aug. 31, 1846; have three children living - Frank M., Helen A, and Emily C.; one died in 
infancy. Frank M. enlisted in the war of the rebellion, in Co. E, 39th IL V: I., Feb. 24,1864,
to serve three years, or during the war; was discharged Dec. 6, 1865. He married Ellaer MEEDE 
Aug. 24, 1875; she was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1858. Helen A. married Thomas MCQUEEN and 
Emily C. married Archibald MCQUEEN, both of Scotland.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.