In the 1880 census, he was living with his father and stepmother, as well as brother Alembert and grandmother Harriet Graham. He was 38, single, a hunter’s guide, and reported that he and his father were born in New York, his mother in Vermont.24

In the 1900 census, he was living with his “mother” Martha, next to Charles Johnson and his family in North Elba. He was born Nov 1841, age 58, and was single. He and his parents had been born in New York, he was a farmer, could read and write, and owned his land free of mortgage.10

In the 1910 census, Martha was living with her stepson Charles N. Corey in Keene. He is listed as male, white, 68, head of household, single. He says he was born in NY, his father in Vermont, his mother in NY. He could read and write, and owned his farm free. Martha is listed as female, white, 76, widowed. No occupation given. She says she was born in NY, her father in Scotland (“Scot (Scotch)”), and her mother in NY. She says she had 2 children, both living.584

He is listed in Bromley’s “Guides of the Adirondacks” as a guide on the Lower Saranac, according to Stoddard and a Saranac Lake reference guide.

From the Franklin County Rootsweb site, a listing of Civil War enlistees (Adjutant Generals’ report) shows:
Corey, Charles [birthplace:] Washington [county?] [birthdate:]1843 [residence:] Brandon [father:] Jesse Corey [no mother listed]  6th MA Co. E [rank:] Pvt. [enslisted:] Jul., 1864 [occupation:] Farmer [note:] served 100 days. Listed as "Cora" in AG report. Hurd lists him as one of the men from Brandon who enlisted for other towns. (AG; Hurd; 1865)

From Ancestry.com, there is also a Civil War Pension Index record for a Charles F.C. Wells, whose name is also listed as “Cora, Charles (alias)”. The pension applications lists “E 6 Mass Inf” and has two filings, one for invalid that looks to have a date of filing of 1890 Sep. 26, filed in Mass. (application number 937,565), and a widow filing of 1892 Mar.? 2, application number 542,598, also filed in Mass. The widow is listed as Cloe R. Wells. There are two images online there, one under the Cora name and one under Wells, each with different quality problems, but with identical application numbers.

There was also a Charles Wells who had enlisted in Lewis NY in 1861, which enlistment would have expired, I think, by July 1864, but it was reported he was 24 at enlistment, not 20, so it may not be the same, but here’s the info from the AG’s report:
Enlisted as a Private on 10 December 1861 in Lewis, NY at the age of 24
Enlisted in Company I, 96th Infantry Regiment New York on 18 December 1861
  Sources:
  New York: Report of the Adjutant-General. (NYRoster) Published in 1894-1906

There are about 120 other Charles Wells enlisted in the Union Army, as well.

However, Charles Corey was shown as single in all census reports. So this may or may not have anything to do with him.

In the Franklin Gazette, Jan. 15, 1897, was printed this legal notice:
Referee’s Sale
Charles N. Corey, plaintiff, against Maud Corey, Marion Corey, Ellen A. Parsons and Ansel Parsons her husband, Jesse Cole, Lillian Cole, Charles H. Johnson, Free Union School District No. One of the Town of Harrietstown, in Franklin County, New York, The Presbytery of Champlain, Arthur Utting and Charles H. Wardner, defendants.
In pursuance of a judgment and decree of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action on the 5th day of November, 1896, and filed, entered and docketed in the Franklin County Clerk’s office on the 17th day of November, 1896, the subscriber, a Referee for that purpose duly appointed, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, at the front door of the Court House, in Malone, Franklin County, New York, on Saturday, the 16th of January, 1897, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, the real property directed by said judgement to be sold, viz.
All that tract or parcel of land, situate in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, State of New York, in Macomb’s Purchase, Great Tract Number One, Township twenty-three, southeast quarter part, bounded by beginning at a large rock on the southerly shore of Upper Saranac Lake, which rock is near the Indian Carry, nearly north from Jesse Corey’s Rustic House and south from a house on Birch Island; thence north thirty four rods; thence east one hundred and fourteen rods, thence south two hundred and thirty rods; thence west one hundred and ninety-four rods, thence north two hundred rods; thence east eighty rods to the place of beginning, containing two hundred and sixty six and seventeen twentieths acroes of land more or less, being the same land deeded by the State of New York to Jesse Corey March 26, A.D. 1880 excepting two acres of land sold to A. L. Corey on the easterly side of the Indian Carry Road, and 2 acres of land conveyed to George W. Johnson, bounded on the west by said Carry and lying south of said A L Corey lot. Each of said having a large pine tree marked A.L.C. on the north and G.W.J. on the south for a corner, the same tree being a corner to both lots.
Also excepting and reserving from said premises three small parcels of land deeded by Jesse Corey in his lifetime to the Presbytery of Champlain, Charles Johnson and Henry E. Bostwick, respectively, said several percels of land having heretofore been duly released from the operation of said mortgage.
Dated December 4, 1896
John P. Badger, Referee
Cantwell & Cantwell, Plaintiff’s attorneys, Malone, N.Y.


In the Malone Palladium, March 11, 1897, under “At the State Capital,” is this mention:
Senator Chahoon has introduced this week a bill to appropriate for the term of five years all the non-resident highway taxes in townships 23, 24, 26, and 27 in Macomb’s Purchase, Great Tract No. 1 in Franklin county, such sums to be used for the improvement of the highway from the western line of George Labounty’s farm lot in the town of Harietstown, Franklin county, westerly to Rustic Lodge, on Upper Saranac Lake. Charles Corey is named as a commissioner to carry out the provisions of this act, and is to receive $1.50 for each day’s service.