Edge Rewrite
// HTMLRewriter · presentation

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Cloudflare fetched the original article and streamed it through HTMLRewriter to apply an entirely new visual system without rebuilding the source page.

// request.cf · coarse context

A page that knows where it met you.

Only coarse request metadata is shown. This demo does not display or persist visitor IP addresses.

Country
US
Cloudflare location
CMH
Connection
HTTP/2
Language
Not provided

Ray ID: a255e2680bd4e88e

Jump to content

Talk:Donald Macleay

Page contents not supported in other languages.
Add topic
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Latest comment: 16 years ago by Finetooth in topic Trying to connect the dots

Trying to connect the dots

[edit]

This is a fantastic bit of history, thanks Finetooth! If you haven't seen it, please take a look at Henry Failing, an article I wrote a while back (and the sources I cited). Curious on two points: (1) Is that the same First National Bank? and (2) is William Corbitt perhaps a relative of Henry Corbett? Also, notice the interlocking corporate leadership of the ORNC..fascinating. -Pete (talk) 23:18, 1 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, Pete. I read Henry Failing just now, and it's impressive. I had thought to check the Oregon Encyclopedia for Macleay material but forgot about Harvey Scott's book until seeing your note above about sources. I read the Macleay entry in the Scott book just now, and it sounds remarkably like Gaston's entry. Nothing that I've read suggests that Corbett and Corbitt were related. I don't think the First National Bank and the U.S. Bank were the same (unless they merged after the latter formed in about 1890). The First National was organized much earlier. McColl says (on p. 104 of Merchants, Money and Power) that Henry W. Corbett and Henry Failing bought the First National Bank in 1869 from the merchants who started it. I will have to do a lot more reading before I can really get my mind around the interlocking leadership, the subgroups, and the generational differences. I wrote a short piece about the Portland City Club about a year ago, and I think the Arlington Club might be next. A lot of the old boys hung out there, it seems. Finetooth (talk) 00:49, 2 February 2010 (UTC)Reply