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Encyclopedia > William Nathaniel Bell

William Nathaniel Bell (1817 - 1887), originally from Illinois and later a resident of Portland, Oregon, was a member of the Denny Party, the first group of white settlers in what is now Seattle. He lived in Seattle from 1851 to 1856 and then again from 1870 till his death.


His family is remembered in the name Belltown, a neighborhood north of Downtown; in Bell Street; in Virginia and Olive Streets, named for two of his daughters; and in Stewart Street, named for Olive's husband Joseph.


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HistoryLink Essay: Bell, William Nathaniel (1817-1887) (1041 words)
William Nathaniel Bell and his wife Sarah Ann Bell were members of the Denny party that arrived on Alki (present-day West Seattle) on the schooner Exact in 1851.
The Bells helped to establish the settlement that became Seattle, settling north of the future downtown in "Belltown." After Indians attacked Seattle on January 26, 1856, William Bell and his ailing wife left Seattle for California.
William Bell, born on March 6, 1817, in Illinois, moved his family to Portland to seek a new life in the West.
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