I wasn't able to locate any information for Carl Corder online other than his birth/death dates: Born 23 Aug 1885;
Died 8 Sep 1988. The following historic events-of-interest occurred during Carl's birth year in 1885:
Jan 4 - Dr William Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy in America on Mary Gartside, aged 22
Feb 9 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
Feb 18 - Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US
Feb 21 - Washington Monument dedicated (Washington, D.C.)
Mar 4 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated as 1st US Democratic President since Civil War
Mar 26 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
Mar 28 - US Salvation Army officially organize
May 19 - 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
Jun 17 - Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
Jul 6 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
Aug 11 - $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
Sep 4 - 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
Sep 5 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
Sep 29 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
Oct 1 - Special delivery mail service begins in US
Nov 6 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada, directed to close