Henry W. Corbett
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican businessman and politician (1827-1903)
Henry Winslow Corbett was an American businessman, politician, civic benefactor, and philanthropist in the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts, he spent his early life in the East and New York before moving to the Oregon Territory.
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Front St. in Portland in 1852. H.W. Corbett, third from right in stove pipe hat, in year after he arrived. (Oregon Historical Society)
Henry Failing (1834 - 1898)Corbett's brother-in-law and a leading Portland businessman.Corbett partnered with him in many business and charitable endeavours
Posters H.W.Corbett & Co., Proprietor's Oregon Stage Line(Dale Forster)
The O.R.&N.'s "Chicago Special" (Benjamin Gifford 1901) (Oregon Historical Society)
The First National Bank moved into the first Corbett Building on completion 1870(Oregon Historical Society)
Worcester Block built by Corbett in 1889 at Third and Oak to Pine St.
Portland Hotel built by Corbett. (Now site of Pioneer Courthouse Square)(Oregon Historical Society)Politicians from United States 6
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Henry Winslow Corbett was an American businessman, politician, civic benefactor, and philanthropist in the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts, he spent his early life in the East and New York before moving to the Oregon Territory. He was a prominent figure in the early development of Portland, Oregon, and was involved in numerous business ventures there, starting in general merchandise. His interests later included banking, finance, insurance, river shipping, stage lines, railways, telegraph, iron and steel and the erection of Portland downtown buildings among other enterprises. A Republican, he served as a United States senator from 1867 to 1873.
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