Historical Marker
Joseph Carter Corbin 1833-1911
Pine Bluff, Jefferson County · Arkansas
Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1833 to parents who had been enslaved in Richmond, Virginia, Joseph Carter Corbin came to Arkansas in 1872 as a newspaper reporter. In 1873 he became state superintendent of public schools and urged the legislature to create Branch Normal College at Pine Bluff. Dismissed in 1874 after the Democratic takeover, he came back at the governor's request in 1875 and led the college until 1902, as its only teacher until 1883. He died in Pine Bluff in 1911 and is buried in Illinois, where a stone honoring him was dedicated in 2013.
Where it stands
34.24222, -92.01893 · Directions
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