Abel Corbin

Abel Rathbone Corbin (May 24, 1808 – March 28, 1881) was an American newspaper editor, financier, and the husband of Virginia Grant, sister of President Ulysses S. Grant.

He was involved in the Black Friday stock market crash of September 24, 1869.

He married on May 13, 1869, in Covington, Kentucky, to Virginia Grant as his second wife.

They had one child, Jennie Corbin, who died as an infant.

Abel's first marriage, to Elizabeth (née Lewis) McAllister (1794–1868), also had no surviving issue.