W. H. Corbett, 43, In Eternal Rest
Head of Willamette Steel & Iron Works Succumbs to Pneumonia. – End Came After Relapse
Employes Adopt Resolutions of Sorrow—Foremen to Bear Body to Grave—Prominent Manufacturer Called in Prime.
In the vigor of manhood, William Harrison Corbett, president of the Wilamette Iron & Steel Works, prominent in social and business circles of Portland, gave up the struggle in a battle with pneumonia and passed into the world beyond at 4:15 o'clock yesterday morning at his home at 618 Kearney street. Mr. Corbett was ill for ten days.
Dr. E. J. Labbe, his physician, although realizing the critical condition of his patient, was optimistic. Saturday Mr. Corbett was better and his family and friends rejoiced. All day Saturday and Sunday the patient showed evidences of improvement, but Sunday at midnight the patient suffered a relapse and, weakened by ten days' fever, Mr. Corbet in a few hours closed his eyes in eternal sleep.
Mr. Corbett was born October 21, 1868—43 years ago—in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Corbett, his mother being Miss Katherine Underhill before marriage. The family home of the surviving parent, the father, still remains in Brooklyn. Mr. Corbett was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn and the Adelphi Academy. In both he distinguished himself by close application to study and ability in mathematics for which he had a natural bent. After leaving the academy he was apprenticed as a machinist in New Haven, Conn., in the shops of A. and F. Roland. After leaving his trade he entered the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, graduating in 1895, as the class valedictorian. Soon after he formed a partnership with his classmate at Stevens, Bert C. Hall, which continued until he moved to Portland to take charge of the Willamette Iron & Steel Works.
Mr. Corbett's coming to Portland to take charge of the plant here was due to the earnest solicitation of his cousin, the late H. W. Corbett. The plant had been run down and needed a master hand to reconstruct and refurbish it on a broader business basis. The early struggle of the plant found it handicapped in the battle of competition on the Coast. To this situation Mr. Corbett applied his talent and his brain with such effectiveness that he brought into activity all of the business lines necessary to develop it. Today it stands as a monument to his wonderful organizing ability.
In 1900 Mr. Corbett returned to Brooklyn to marry the sweetheart of his youth, Miss Ethel Webster. Two young daughters survive Portland's ironmaster. They are Dorothy, aged 10, and Mary, aged 6. Two brothers, C. H. Corbett, Jr., of Brooklyn, and E. H. Corbett , of Portland, and a sister, Mrs. Budlong, of Minneapolis, also survive him.
The funeral will be held from Trinity Church tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Dr. A. A. Morrison will officiate.
[The Oregonian, 21 Feb 1911, page 4; (longer obituary details of pall bearers and union and employee resolutions)]
Head of Willamette Steel & Iron Works Succumbs to Pneumonia. – End Came After Relapse
Employes Adopt Resolutions of Sorrow—Foremen to Bear Body to Grave—Prominent Manufacturer Called in Prime.
In the vigor of manhood, William Harrison Corbett, president of the Wilamette Iron & Steel Works, prominent in social and business circles of Portland, gave up the struggle in a battle with pneumonia and passed into the world beyond at 4:15 o'clock yesterday morning at his home at 618 Kearney street. Mr. Corbett was ill for ten days.
Dr. E. J. Labbe, his physician, although realizing the critical condition of his patient, was optimistic. Saturday Mr. Corbett was better and his family and friends rejoiced. All day Saturday and Sunday the patient showed evidences of improvement, but Sunday at midnight the patient suffered a relapse and, weakened by ten days' fever, Mr. Corbet in a few hours closed his eyes in eternal sleep.
Mr. Corbett was born October 21, 1868—43 years ago—in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Corbett, his mother being Miss Katherine Underhill before marriage. The family home of the surviving parent, the father, still remains in Brooklyn. Mr. Corbett was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn and the Adelphi Academy. In both he distinguished himself by close application to study and ability in mathematics for which he had a natural bent. After leaving the academy he was apprenticed as a machinist in New Haven, Conn., in the shops of A. and F. Roland. After leaving his trade he entered the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, graduating in 1895, as the class valedictorian. Soon after he formed a partnership with his classmate at Stevens, Bert C. Hall, which continued until he moved to Portland to take charge of the Willamette Iron & Steel Works.
Mr. Corbett's coming to Portland to take charge of the plant here was due to the earnest solicitation of his cousin, the late H. W. Corbett. The plant had been run down and needed a master hand to reconstruct and refurbish it on a broader business basis. The early struggle of the plant found it handicapped in the battle of competition on the Coast. To this situation Mr. Corbett applied his talent and his brain with such effectiveness that he brought into activity all of the business lines necessary to develop it. Today it stands as a monument to his wonderful organizing ability.
In 1900 Mr. Corbett returned to Brooklyn to marry the sweetheart of his youth, Miss Ethel Webster. Two young daughters survive Portland's ironmaster. They are Dorothy, aged 10, and Mary, aged 6. Two brothers, C. H. Corbett, Jr., of Brooklyn, and E. H. Corbett , of Portland, and a sister, Mrs. Budlong, of Minneapolis, also survive him.
The funeral will be held from Trinity Church tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Dr. A. A. Morrison will officiate.
[The Oregonian, 21 Feb 1911, page 4; (longer obituary details of pall bearers and union and employee resolutions)]
W. H. Corbett, 43, In Eternal Rest
Head of Willamette Steel & Iron Works Succumbs to Pneumonia. – End Came After Relapse
Employes Adopt Resolutions of Sorrow—Foremen to Bear Body to Grave—Prominent Manufacturer Called in Prime.
In the vigor of manhood, William Harrison Corbett, president of the Wilamette Iron & Steel Works, prominent in social and business circles of Portland, gave up the struggle in a battle with pneumonia and passed into the world beyond at 4:15 o'clock yesterday morning at his home at 618 Kearney street. Mr. Corbett was ill for ten days.
Dr. E. J. Labbe, his physician, although realizing the critical condition of his patient, was optimistic. Saturday Mr. Corbett was better and his family and friends rejoiced. All day Saturday and Sunday the patient showed evidences of improvement, but Sunday at midnight the patient suffered a relapse and, weakened by ten days' fever, Mr. Corbet in a few hours closed his eyes in eternal sleep.
Mr. Corbett was born October 21, 1868—43 years ago—in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Corbett, his mother being Miss Katherine Underhill before marriage. The family home of the surviving parent, the father, still remains in Brooklyn. Mr. Corbett was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn and the Adelphi Academy. In both he distinguished himself by close application to study and ability in mathematics for which he had a natural bent. After leaving the academy he was apprenticed as a machinist in New Haven, Conn., in the shops of A. and F. Roland. After leaving his trade he entered the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, graduating in 1895, as the class valedictorian. Soon after he formed a partnership with his classmate at Stevens, Bert C. Hall, which continued until he moved to Portland to take charge of the Willamette Iron & Steel Works.
Mr. Corbett's coming to Portland to take charge of the plant here was due to the earnest solicitation of his cousin, the late H. W. Corbett. The plant had been run down and needed a master hand to reconstruct and refurbish it on a broader business basis. The early struggle of the plant found it handicapped in the battle of competition on the Coast. To this situation Mr. Corbett applied his talent and his brain with such effectiveness that he brought into activity all of the business lines necessary to develop it. Today it stands as a monument to his wonderful organizing ability.
In 1900 Mr. Corbett returned to Brooklyn to marry the sweetheart of his youth, Miss Ethel Webster. Two young daughters survive Portland's ironmaster. They are Dorothy, aged 10, and Mary, aged 6. Two brothers, C. H. Corbett, Jr., of Brooklyn, and E. H. Corbett , of Portland, and a sister, Mrs. Budlong, of Minneapolis, also survive him.
The funeral will be held from Trinity Church tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Dr. A. A. Morrison will officiate.
[The Oregonian, 21 Feb 1911, page 4; (longer obituary details of pall bearers and union and employee resolutions)]
Head of Willamette Steel & Iron Works Succumbs to Pneumonia. – End Came After Relapse
Employes Adopt Resolutions of Sorrow—Foremen to Bear Body to Grave—Prominent Manufacturer Called in Prime.
In the vigor of manhood, William Harrison Corbett, president of the Wilamette Iron & Steel Works, prominent in social and business circles of Portland, gave up the struggle in a battle with pneumonia and passed into the world beyond at 4:15 o'clock yesterday morning at his home at 618 Kearney street. Mr. Corbett was ill for ten days.
Dr. E. J. Labbe, his physician, although realizing the critical condition of his patient, was optimistic. Saturday Mr. Corbett was better and his family and friends rejoiced. All day Saturday and Sunday the patient showed evidences of improvement, but Sunday at midnight the patient suffered a relapse and, weakened by ten days' fever, Mr. Corbet in a few hours closed his eyes in eternal sleep.
Mr. Corbett was born October 21, 1868—43 years ago—in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Corbett, his mother being Miss Katherine Underhill before marriage. The family home of the surviving parent, the father, still remains in Brooklyn. Mr. Corbett was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn and the Adelphi Academy. In both he distinguished himself by close application to study and ability in mathematics for which he had a natural bent. After leaving the academy he was apprenticed as a machinist in New Haven, Conn., in the shops of A. and F. Roland. After leaving his trade he entered the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, graduating in 1895, as the class valedictorian. Soon after he formed a partnership with his classmate at Stevens, Bert C. Hall, which continued until he moved to Portland to take charge of the Willamette Iron & Steel Works.
Mr. Corbett's coming to Portland to take charge of the plant here was due to the earnest solicitation of his cousin, the late H. W. Corbett. The plant had been run down and needed a master hand to reconstruct and refurbish it on a broader business basis. The early struggle of the plant found it handicapped in the battle of competition on the Coast. To this situation Mr. Corbett applied his talent and his brain with such effectiveness that he brought into activity all of the business lines necessary to develop it. Today it stands as a monument to his wonderful organizing ability.
In 1900 Mr. Corbett returned to Brooklyn to marry the sweetheart of his youth, Miss Ethel Webster. Two young daughters survive Portland's ironmaster. They are Dorothy, aged 10, and Mary, aged 6. Two brothers, C. H. Corbett, Jr., of Brooklyn, and E. H. Corbett , of Portland, and a sister, Mrs. Budlong, of Minneapolis, also survive him.
The funeral will be held from Trinity Church tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Dr. A. A. Morrison will officiate.
[The Oregonian, 21 Feb 1911, page 4; (longer obituary details of pall bearers and union and employee resolutions)]
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