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Henry Failing papers, 1802-1968

Title: Henry Failing papers 1802-1968

Papers of a pioneer merchant, banker, mayor, civic leader, and philanthropist of Portland, Oregon. Includes business correspondence and other business papers; business ledgers; files on the Failing house; materials relating to a European tour of 1879-1880; files on business and civic interests, including the Tualatin Academy; land ownership records; and correspondence of other family members, including Henry Coalter Cabell and Henry Failing Cabell.

ArchivalResource: 20 cubic feet; 13 document cases, 10 record cartons, 6 volumes, 1 oversize folder

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv78331 View

Failing, Henry, 1834-1898. Henry Failing papers, 1802-1968.

Title: Henry Failing papers, 1802-1968.

Correspondence, bills, receipts, an incomplete diary (1851) of Failing's voyage from New York to Oregon, notebooks (1879-1880) kept on a European tour, and other papers, relating to the First National Bank (Portland), investment interests, the Keystone Mining and Milling Company, the Oregon Iron Company (Oswego, Or.), the Willamette Iron and Steel Works, the construction of the Failing home, and Failing's interests in the University of Oregon, the Portland Fire Department, Portland Library Association, the First Baptist Church of Portland, Tualatin Academy, and Pacific University. Includes papers relating to the estates of Josiah Failing (Portland, Or.), John A. Hatt and his wife, Emma M. Hatt (New York City), and John B. Price (Walla Walla, Wash.). Correspondents include Jesse Applegate, Henry W. Corbett, Emily Corbett (Failing) Cabell, Edward Failing, Henrietta Ellison Failing, Mary Forbush Failing, Emma Hatt, John A. Hatt, and William S. Ladd. Of note among the business correspondence are letters from railroad magnate Henry Villard regarding the building of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic feet (13 document cases, 1 oversize folder)113 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39874151 View

Willamette Iron and Steel Works records, 1889

Title: Willamette Iron and Steel Works records 1889

Manuscript specifications for a marine-fire-box boiler, a type of steam engine, 6 pp, August 1889, prepared for J. B. Montgomery. In 1865, the Willamette Iron Works began operating in Portland, Oregon and was known for producing the "Willamette Donkey" for logging operations.

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (1 folder)

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv62332 View

Willamette Iron and Steel Works. Willamette Iron and Steel Works records [manuscript], 1889.

Title: Willamette Iron and Steel Works records [manuscript], 1889.

Manuscript specifications for a marine-fire-box boiler, a type of steam engine, 6 pp, August 1889, prepared for J. B. Montgomery.

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/690132422 View

Brazee, John W. family. John W. Brazee family papers [manuscript], 1869-1937.

Title: John W. Brazee family papers [manuscript], 1869-1937.

Collection includes: Correspondence, mainly to Morton Insley, 1869-1937; Compositions and autograph book of Minnie Biles Brazee, circa 1871-1900; Will and estate inventory of John Brazee, 1887; Baptism certificate of Fanny Brazee, 1878; Issues of "The Plant Record" from the Willamette Iron & Steel, 1919; Miscellaneous family papers.

ArchivalResource: .12 cubic feet (3 folders and 1 oversize folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/697630574 View

John W. Brazee family papers, 1869-1937

Title: John W. Brazee family papers 1869-1937

Collection includes: Correspondence, mainly to Morton Insley, 1869-1937; Compositions and autograph book of Minnie Biles Brazee, circa 1871-1900; Will and estate inventory of John Brazee, 1887; Baptism certificate of Fanny Brazee, 1878; Issues of "The Plant Record" from the Willamette Iron & Steel, 1919; Miscellaneous family papers. Morton Insley worked as a salesman for Ames and Harris, Co. of Portland and later for the Willamette Iran & Steel Company.

ArchivalResource: .12 cubic feet (3 folders and 1 oversize folder)

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv64929 View

United States. Navy. Farmington.

Title: Farmington.

ArchivalResource: items in folder : ill., photos. ; 22 x 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21082587 View