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in the United States on 12 December 1889 the son of George
Washington Corner II, a local merchant, and his wife, Florence Evans. He attended Baltimore Boys Latin School.
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on a salary of $ 6000 per year. He took up the role in
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Calderone, Mary S. (1982). "In memoriam George
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Shryock, Richard H. (1956). "George W. Corner as historian and humanist".
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