William S. Ladd
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William Sargent Ladd was an American politician and businessman in Oregon. He twice served as the mayor of Portland, Oregon, in the 1850s. A native of Vermont, he was a prominent figure in the early d
William S. Ladd plaque Ladd Carriage House (Gretchen Forster photo 2018)
Ladd's house c. 1881
Ladd Carriage House in 2014
Josiah Failing
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Josiah Failing was a businessman and the fourth mayor of Portland, Oregon, United States. Born in New York, he moved to Portland when it was still a small town of a few hundred. He and his son Henry,
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…this. In 1854, when he was mayor, he and two of the other Portland merchants, who with him were to make important contributions to education in Oregon, Josiah Failing, the immediate past mayor and Henry W. Corbett were responsible for the establishment of a tax funded Portland public school system. Three years after…
The main building of the National College of Natural Medicine, in South Portland, was originally an elementary school named for Josiah Failing.