EV. PHILLIP S. P. CORBIN was born near Newport News, Virginia, in 1837, and died at Houma, in Terre Bonne county, Louisiana, in 1873. He was the only son of Dr. Gawin S. and Elizabeth (Hines) Corbin, of Warwick county, Virginia, and a descendant of the large colonial family of that name and great grandson of Colonel Richard Corbin the last colonial governor of the state. Hon. Richard Corbin was a vestryman of the new church in King and Queen county, which cost £1300, dimensions fifty by eighty feet.

      After receiving a collegiate education at the University of Virginia, he was graduated in Medicine at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, in 1859. In 1860, he married Eliza Brown, daughter of Jackson and Amanda (Parker) Brinkley, and to them were born three children, Dr. L. Carroll Corbin of Passaic, New Jersey; Dr. Marion X. Corbin of Savannah, Georgia; and Mrs. J. W. Sowers of Lynchburg, Virginia.

      He settled in Nansemond county, Virginia, and while [355] practicing his profession, he was ordained a minister of the Eastern Virginia Christian Conference about 1866. In 1865, the committee on the ministry and ordination recommended Dr. Phillip Corbin for licensure, and at the close of the Conference at Holy Neck, on Saturday afternoon "an eloquent and impressive discourse was delivered by him." In 1868, he took an active part in the proceedings of the Conference at Bethlehem in Nansemond county. He had charge of Damascus in Gates county, North Carolina, and Providence in Norfolk county, Virginia. In 1870, he moved to Houma, Louisiana. To the Conference at Hebron in Isle of Wight county, in 1872, he reported by letter, which is the last recorded act of his ministry. Possessing a good voice and his superior education soon gained for him a distinction as a speaker and a man of influence. He preached at Berkley, Providence, and Damascus, and was the founder of Liberty Spring church in Nansemond county, Virginia.

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