Curling iron inventor's Portland palace for sale at $2.9 million
Curling iron inventor’s Portland palace for sale at $2.9 million Updated Mar 10, 2021; By the 1920s, Oregon entrepreneur Clarissa Keyes Inman had amassed a small fortune. She had invented the electric curling iron, which helped turn flappers’ bobbed hairstyles into a bouncy rebellion during the Roaring Twenties. And she had married Robert D. Inman, who co-founded the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company, once the Before her marriage to a lumber baron, she first wed the chief engineer on the lighthouse tender, Manzanita, and later in life, her chauffeur. “Clara” Inman was avant-garde in anoth...