Corning, Jasper

Born: 1792-12-15 Hartford, Connecticut

Died: 1869-11-16 New York, New York

Jasper Corning was a security and commodity broker and a Presbyterian. In September 1817, he married Abigail Kibbe, with whom he had at least six children. He lived in Philadelphia with his family from at least 1835 until around 1839, when they relocated to Brooklyn, New York. Abigail died in Philadelphia in September 1838. Two years later, in October 1840, he married Margaret Kibbe. In 1851, the family moved to New York City, where he and his son Edwin worked in banking and commodities trading together in the firm Jasper Corning & Son. By 1860, he was still working as a broker, living in New York City, and owned $20,000 in real estate.

New York, U.S., Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1880 (Barber Collection), 15 September 1817 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2005); Abigail Corning, Gravestone, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY; U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970, 2 October 1840 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Ward 3, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, 238; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 21, New York, New York County, NY, 25; Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, 1910-1915 (New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1915), 378; Jasper Corning, Gravestone, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.