Individual Details

Immigration

Name Hunter Corbett
Event Type Passport Application, Date 1913, Place China
Gender Male
Birth Date 08 Dec 1835, Birthplace, Leatherwood, Pennsylvania
Occupation Clergyman - intend to return in two years
discription: 6 feet tall age 77 years, eyes brown, large mouth, beard hair gray, long face, dark complection
Spouse's Name Harriet Corbett
Spouse's Gender Female
Certificate Number 88131

Miscellaneous

Hunter Corbett - first child of Fanny and Ross Corbett - b. 12-8-1835 - d. 1-7-1920. He was a Presbyterian Minister and one of the first Missionaries to China. He was taken ill on his first trip there which forced him to turn to turn back. On his third trip he arrived in China.
The Chinese, at that tie, resented missionaries and were about to take him prisoner. There had been a long drought there, Hunter Corbett knelt and prayed for rain. While he was praying it began to rain, and he make converts right then.
He was instrumental in having Chinese girls taught to make lace, which caused them to become commercially valuable, thereby eliminating the killing of the girl babies, as was the custom.
His family, to the three wives, was referred to as "Ancient-Medieval and Modern." His children were sent back to Wooster, Ohio, to a Presbyterian College to be educated, but returned to China, where most of them became missionaries.
Hunter Corbett died in Chefoo, China, where he had lived. There were 10 children.