Later Years
Corbett continued his business activities and served a director for the Oregon Steam Navigation Company and the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. He served as president of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition from January 1902 until his death the next year. Henry Winslow Corbett died in Portland on March 31, 1903, at the age of 76 and was interred at River View Cemetery in that city. The town of Corbett, Oregon is named after him. His descendants Gretchen Corbett and Winslow Corbett are television and stage actresses.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“These native villages are as unchanging as the woman in one of their stories. When she was called before a local justice he asked her age. “I have 45 years.” “But,” said the justice, “you were forty-five when you appeared before me two years ago.” “Señor Judge,” she replied proudly, drawing herself to her full height, “I am not of those who are one thing today and another tomorrow!””
—State of New Mexico, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)