1. Hamilton Forbush "Ham" Corbett was a prominent Portland, Oregon businessman and in his younger years was a leading amateur American football player.
23 Facts About Hamilton Corbett
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Hamilton Corbett played college football for Harvard University and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1908 College Football All-America Team.
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The Hamilton Corbett family was one of the influential families in Oregon at that time.
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Hamilton Corbett grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Academy.
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Hamilton Corbett's father died in 1895, when he was 7 years old.
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Hamilton Corbett attended Harvard College from 1907 to 1911 and played on the freshman football team in 1907.
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Hamilton Corbett was five feet, eleven inches tall and weighed 167 pounds while at Harvard.
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Hamilton Corbett was selected as a consensus first-team fullback on the 1908 College Football All-America Team.
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In May 1917, with the United States entry into World War I, Hamilton Corbett entered the Officer's Training Camp at the Presidio of San Francisco.
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Hamilton Corbett was commissioned as a first lieutenant and sailed to France in September 1917, serving there with the 151st Field Artillery, 42nd Division.
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Hamilton Corbett was wounded in July 1918 and was promoted to captain.
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Hamilton Corbett received his discharge from the military in May 1919.
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Hamilton Corbett was married to Harriet Cumming at Portland in 1920.
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Hamilton Corbett had one daughter by his first marriage: Harriet Corbett, born in 1922.
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Hamilton Corbett married for a second time, to Charlotte Breyman Thomson, in 1944, at Lakewood, Washington.
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Hamilton Corbett was the youngest of three brothers but was an equal partner with his two elder brothers Henry L Corbett and Elliott R Corbett in the Corbett Investment Company, with offices on the tenth floor of the Corbett Building, which the Corbett brothers had built in 1907.
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Hamilton Corbett was President of the Security and Saving Trust Company, a saving and trust company the brothers controlled through the bank.
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Hamilton Corbett's widow remained living in the house fronting on Taylor on the other part of the block until her death in 1936.
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Today, the Pacific Building, built by Hamilton Corbett and his brothers, is a historic landmark in downtown Portland.
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The real estate holding company owned by the Hamilton Corbett brothers, sold several of its downtown buildings in 1956.
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The properties included the Pacific Building, the ten-story Hamilton Corbett Building, and the Hamilton Corbett Brothers Auto Storage Garage plus two quarter-block lots in downtown Portland.
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Hamilton Corbett served as President of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and aided many volunteer organisations.
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Hamilton Forbush Corbett died in Portland in 1966 at age 77 and is buried in the Corbett plot on the crest of River View Cemetery, in Portland.