Benjamin Franklin Day (1834-1904) was born in Ohio and came to Seattle in 1880, buying a 160-acre farm north of Lake Union in what is now the Fremont neighborhood. A real estate speculator and investor, Mr. Day is remembered for having donated money in 1889, then land in 1891, to the Seattle School District. In 1892, the district built and opened a school in Fremont, B. F. Day Elementary, which is the oldest continuously-operating elementary school in the Seattle Public School system.
This image of a Day, Latimer, & Wood business card lists B. F. Day, William G. Latimer, and William D. Wood as real estate brokers in Washington Territory.
Caption information source: "Old citizen dead: B. F. Day passes away at Los Angeles at the age of seventy years," The Seattle Daily Times, March 26, 1904, p. 3 Caption information source: https://dayes.seattleschools.org/about/#g1a5070fda350
Physical Description: 1 business card ; 5 x 2.75 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Credit: MOHAI, Lawrence Denny Lindsley Photographs, 1974.5903.58
