John Bunyan Denny (1862-1913) was the eldest son of early Seattle settlers David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) and Louisa (Boren) Denny (1827-1916). John attended Willamette University law school in Portland, and in 1887 married Carrie V. Palmer (1853-1891), daughter of Rocelia A. Palmer and Alfred Lee Palmer (1835-1914), a prominent Seattle lawyer and real estate investor. Carrie was born in Iowa and moved to Seattle with her family from Nebraska in about 1882. She graduated from the Washington Territorial University (now University of Washington) in 1884. Four weeks after John was admitted to the state bar association in 1891, Carrie became only the third woman in Washington State to be admitted, and in July 1891 she joined the law practice of Palmer & Easly. John and Carrie's two children, Edward Harold Denny (1887-1971) and Anna Louisa (Denny) Gay (b. 1889), were born in Seattle.
In this portrait John and Carrie pose in a studio in Portland, Oregon, possibly about the time of their marriage in 1887.
Handwritten on verso: John Bunyan Denny, d. 6/25/1913, and Carrie Palmer Denny, b. 8/27/1863, d. 12/17/1891, parents of Edward & Anna Denny, both were lawyers in the state of Washington
Caption information source: Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, January 11, 1887, page 3 Caption information source: Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, July 10, 1891, page 5 Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, June 30, 1913, page 4 Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, August 24, 1914, page 3
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : b&w ; 3.25 x 5.5 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.
