Boston Corbett

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An amusing laundry list attributed there to Corbett, I wonder if even one
of those did apply to Boston Corbett. It almost looks like the
reporter/editor had something he was referring from --maybe old city directories? An old Concordia clipping has some of Boston Corbett's efforts at poetry and I think may actually be his work. Let me ask you this question, Craig, about the idea of him dying in the Great Hinckley
(Minnesota) Fire of 1894. Do you think that if that were Boston Corbett, he would have reverted to his PRE-BAPTISM name change and back to Thomas Corbett? It was a signal event to Corbett when he got religion, and I can not see him, for any reason, disposing of his name Boston Corbett. Which makes me further dubious that Corbett was the man (likely) dying there in the Great Fire in 1894.