Henry Clark Corbin / Colclazer Run

Henry Clark Corbin was born on September 15, 1842, and was reared on the family farm along Colclazer Run near Laurel. He attended public school and the private Parker Academy in nearby Clermontville. After teaching school and studying law, he enlisted in the Union Army in 1862, and military service became his career. Corbin served as the armed forces adjutant-general under President William McKinley during the Spanish-American War in 1898 and was promoted to Lieutenant General on April 15, 1906. He died on September 8, 1909, in Washington, D.C., and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Colclazer Run takes its name from David Colclazer, a hunter and trapper who arrived as the first settler in Monroe Township circa 1796 and lived by the banks of the small stream. Colclazer also lived with Larry Byrns, another early settler and Revolutionary War soldier, for several years before moving to Indiana in 1812. More than two hundred years later, the meandering creek still bears the name Colclazer Run.

Ohio · United States