Cicero Hunt Lewis
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Cicero Hunt Lewis was an American merchant and investor in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon during the second half of the 19th century. Born in New Jersey, Lewis and a friend, Lucius Allen, travel
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Henry W. Corbett
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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
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…begun to focus on wholesale markets, and by 1880, it was one of the leading wholesale grocery firms on the West Coast. Lewis and three contemporaries, Henry W. Corbett, William S. Ladd, and Henry Failing, who arrived in Portland in 1851 and set up businesses along Front Street, became "merchant princes of the Northwest…
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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)
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)