Dexter Horton

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Dexter Horton

Dexter Horton (1825 – 1904) was the founder of the first bank in the city of Seattle. Before his founding of the Bank of Dexter Horton in 1870 financial transactions were conducted by merchants.

Dexter Horton was born in 1825 in

Seattle First National Bank, which eventually merged into the Bank of America
.

According to Seattle lore, decades after the battle 1856 Battle of Seattle, Seattle's future fire chief Gardner Kellogg was excavating his house and found a shell from the USS Decatur that had buried itself without exploding. He stuck it under a tree stump that he was trying to burn out and went off to lunch; Dexter Horton stopped by to warm the seat of his pants at the fire, and as it exploded, nearly became the last casualty of the battle of Seattle.[1]

Horton was married to Hannah Eliza Shoudy, sister of John Alden Shoudy, in 1844, and they had three children but two died early. After her death, he married Caroline E. Parsons (d. 1878) on September 29, 1873, and they had one daughter. He then married Arabella C. Agard (1827-1914) on September 14, 1882.[2][3]

Notes

  1. ^ Denny, Emily Inez (1909). Blazing the way. Seattle: Rainier Printing Company. pp. 421–423.
  2. ^ "Horton, Dexter (1825-1904)". History Link.org.
  3. ^ "Dexter Horton: Pioneer of 1852" (PDF). Oregonpioneers.com.

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