Henry Failing
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Henry Failing was a banker, and one of the leading businessmen of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He was one of Portland, Oregon's earliest residents, and served as that city's mayor in tw
Failing's home, at the lower left in this circa 1914 photo, was located in what is now the center of downtown Portland. At the time of the house's construction (1876), the city's business center was located farther east.
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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…and then to San Francisco aboard the Tennessee. The final leg of their journey, aboard the Columbia, took them to Portland on June 9. Henry befriended C. H. Lewis, later a business associate, on the last leg of the journey. At the time, Portland was merely a hamlet, with fewer than 500 residents. He and his father…
C.H. Lewis