page_title: Elliott R. Corbett
section_title: His grandfather
hierarchical_section_title: Elliott R. Corbett / His grandfather
caption_attribution_description: English: US Senator Henry W. Corbett (1827-1903) of Portland Oregon. Head a shoulders Photo.
context_page_description: Elliott Ruggles Corbett was a Portland, Oregon banker, business leader, owner and builder of a number of the city's buildings, as well as civic leader and benefactor. He was born 29 June 1884 in Portland Oregon and died 2 May 1963 at his home in Dunthorpe, Portland, Oregon, aged 78. He and his two brothers, Henry Ladd Corbett and Hamilton Forbush Corbett were required at a young age to take on the burdens of the businesses, banking and real estate holdings that their grandfather Henry W. Corbett had developed, as their father Henry Jagger Corbett had both died, predeceasing their own father.
context_section_description: Elliott Corbett's grandfather US Senator Henry W. Corbett (1827 – 1903) died when Elliott was 18. Henry W. Corbett had been born in Massachusetts and started the Corbett family dynasty in Oregon when he arrived at the tiny settlement of Portland in 1851, having crossed the Isthmus of Panama which he had reached by boat from New York. He had previously chartered a ship in New York and sent it, loaded with hardware, dry goods and other items, around Cape Horn bound for Portland, Oregon. He became an astute and successful businessman in Portland and Oregon and developed many of the various sinews of industry and finance that the growing city of Portland required. He also served as a US Senator from Oregon.
caption: Sen. Henry W. Corbett
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