page_title: Elliott R. Corbett
section_title: Daughters
hierarchical_section_title: Elliott R. Corbett / Daughters
caption_attribution_description: English: Caroline Ladd Corbett (1910-1989) was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, her parents were Elliott Ruggles Corbett (1884-1963) and Alta Rittenhouse Smith (1886-1976). She was the great-granddaughter of two of Portland's pioneers (Henry W. Corbett and William S. Ladd). Before marriage, she was Assistant to the then US Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. She became Lady Macadam when her husband Ivison Macadam was knighted in 1955.
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 and Alta had five daughters and no sons  who they brought up with the aid of Nurse Cochrane:
caption: Caroline Ladd Corbett
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