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    Henry Failing (January 17, 1834 – November 8, 1898) was a banker, and one of the leading businessmen of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He...
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    move to Portland in 1856) and Emily Phelps Corbett (later to marry Henry Failing in Portland in 1858). H.W. Corbett and these three siblings lived in...
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    Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was accused by King Henry VIII of adultery after failing to produce the male heir he so desperately desired. Jane...
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    diagonally across the street from the business of Henry W. Corbett, a future U.S. Senator with whom the Failing business would later partner. Spring 1853 was...
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    original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved November 12, 2021. Chet Orloff. "Henry Failing (1834-1898)". The Oregon Encyclopedia. "Death of Mayor Gates". The Morning...
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    generated enough interest and subscribers to his plan, among them Henry W. Corbett, Henry Failing, Simeon Reed and William S. Ladd, to get construction started...
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    failings, led England down the road to parliamentary democracy and empire". Pollard's interpretation remained the dominant interpretation of Henry's life...
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    Public Schools board from 1862-1866. Following the resignation of Mayor Henry Failing, Holmes was chosen to succeed him as mayor by a vote of the city council...
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    France reasserted their various claims, exploiting the aging Henry's failing health. Henry was forced to accept humiliating peace terms, including naming...
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    glazed terra cotta. The Failing Office Building is currently known as The 620 Building. The building was built for Henry Failing, the fifteenth mayor of...
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