page_title: Elliott R. Corbett
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Elliott R. Corbett / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Henry L. Corbett with his brother Elliott R. Corbett as boys with a chipmunk on the Oregon mountains circa 1890
context_page_description: Elliott Ruggles Corbett was a Portland, Oregon banker, business leader, owner and builder of a number of the city's buildings, as well as civic leader and benefactor. He was born 29 June 1884 in Portland Oregon and died 2 May 1963 at his home in Dunthorpe, Portland, Oregon, aged 78. He and his two brothers, Henry Ladd Corbett and Hamilton Forbush Corbett were required at a young age to take on the burdens of the businesses, banking and real estate holdings that their grandfather Henry W. Corbett had developed, as their father Henry Jagger Corbett had both died, predeceasing their own father.
context_section_description: Elliott was educated at the Portland Academy, a predecessor educational institution of the present Catlin Gable school.   He then went to Harvard University, graduating in 1907, from where his two brothers also graduated. All were football players at Harvard and also became keen polo players.
  Elliott was ten years old when his father died. His older brother Harry (Henry L. Corbett) was fourteen and his younger brother Ham (Hamilton F. Corbett) was seven.
  His mother was aware that without a father the boys needed to be taught by others the skills that she felt young men would need. So as to be able to acquire good horsemanship and learn to be good shots she sent them as young boys to spend parts of their summers at the P Ranch in Eastern Oregon with men who could teach them those. The P Ranch was then owned by the French-Glenn Livestock Company and run by Peter French.
  There they learned to be expert shots with a rifle, a shotgun and a hand gun (revolver); to rope cattle and herd and tie them; to control pack trains and to become good outdoorsmen; to set-up camp and to learn fly fishing. Their mother, Helen Ladd Corbett, also saw that they were well schooled in lesser matters that would serve them in later life, like the proper use of an axe and various practical uses with their hands like how to understand the new motor vehicle engines; be able to fix them, change tires and keep them running on remote journeys; to carve meat expertly for guests for the dinner table and to be able to do things she thought men should be able to do well and with expertise. In this, as a widow, she was successful in preparing them for their life ahead.
caption: Henry and Elliott Corbett circa 1890 with chipmunk
  (Elliott R. Corbett Archives)
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