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Men inside Dexter Horton Bank, Seattle, 1882
Order an ImageIn 1870 Seattle pioneer Dexter Horton (1825-1904) opened the first business in Seattle dedicated to serving as a bank. Dexter Horton Bank was one of the corporate ancestors of Seattle First National Bank, which eventually merged into the Bank of America.
This image taken of the interior of the Dexter Horton Bank at the northwest corner of Commercial Street (First Avenue South) and Main Street includes (from left to right) cashier B. F. Briggs, bank partner Arthur Armstrong Denny (1822-1899), cashier Rolland Hershel Denny (1851-1939), cashier Norval Hastings Latimer (1863-1923), and Norman Penfield (1830-1911), whose wife's sister, Caroline Eliza Parsons (1836-1878) was Dexter Horton's second wife. This building was lost in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 and later replaced by the large red-brick Maynard Building, which still stands.
Caption information source: "Horton, Dexter (1825-1904)," by Junius Rochester, HistoryLink.org Essay 1048
This image taken of the interior of the Dexter Horton Bank at the northwest corner of Commercial Street (First Avenue South) and Main Street includes (from left to right) cashier B. F. Briggs, bank partner Arthur Armstrong Denny (1822-1899), cashier Rolland Hershel Denny (1851-1939), cashier Norval Hastings Latimer (1863-1923), and Norman Penfield (1830-1911), whose wife's sister, Caroline Eliza Parsons (1836-1878) was Dexter Horton's second wife. This building was lost in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 and later replaced by the large red-brick Maynard Building, which still stands.
Caption information source: "Horton, Dexter (1825-1904)," by Junius Rochester, HistoryLink.org Essay 1048
ID Number: SHS338
Date: 1882
Creator(s):
Peiser, Theodore E., Photographer
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w ; 4.25 x 6.5 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.
Credit: MOHAI, SHS338
Copyright: No Known Copyright