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Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
William R. Churchill House/Neller Funeral Home (210 Bridge): This two-story hip-roof frame Italianate house was constructed in the 1860s for one of Portland's first businessman, William R. Churchill. It was converted into a funeral parlor in 1932. [2] Opera House Block (136 Kent): This three-story two-storefront building was constructed in 1880.
Herbert H. Lehman: A Jewish Patron Saint, The American Jewish Archives Journal LXXI : 1 (2019): 18–44. Ingalls, Robert P. Herbert H. Lehman and New York's Little New Deal, (1975) New York University Press, Scholarly history/evaluation of Lehman's governorship from 1933 to 1942.
Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home, Mausoleum and Crematory is a funerary establishment in the Sellwood neighborhood of southeast Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1901 as the Portland Crematorium, it is the first and oldest crematorium west of the Mississippi River , [ 1 ] and the largest privately managed indoor burial site in ...
Portland's Old Ladies' Home Society, organized on March 3, 1893, by pioneer Mary H. Holbrook, was referred to as the "prototype" for the Old People's Home in Gaston's "Portland, Oregon..." (1911). It was supported by charitable donations, the must substantial of which came from Henry W. Corbett and Amanda Reed. But the costs exceeded expectations.
Elizabeth Lehman Belen (December 22, 1886 – July 24, 1975) was an American politician who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1937 to 1938. [1] She was the first Democratic woman elected to the Michigan Legislature. She served as a delegate to the 1940 and 1944 Democratic National Conventions. [2]
The Portland Daily Press was founded in June 1862 by J. T. Gilman, Joseph B. Hall, and Newell A. Foster as a new Republican paper. [3] Its first issue, published on June 23, 1862, announced strong support for Abraham Lincoln and condemned slavery as "the foulest blot upon our national character."
Portland Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,881 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] The City of Portland is situated in the south central portion of the township, but is administratively autonomous.