Tax Lists for the City of Seattle
Scope and Contents note
The collection consists of three volumes of information regarding taxes levied by the City of Seattle on its residents during the years 1874-1878. Tables include name of resident, description of property, value of real estate and personal property, total valuation, amount assessed for each tax, date of payment, and remarks. Taxes levied included Road Poll, Road Property, City, Gas Light, Fire, and Cemetery taxes.
Prominent early Seattleites whose names appear in the tax lists include religious leader Daniel Bagley, businessman (and later Mayor of Seattle) Bailey Gatzert, banker Dexter Horton, early pioneer (and widow of Dr. David "Doc" Maynard) Catherine Maynard, and early settlers Henry and Sarah Yesler.
Dates
- Creation: 1874-1876
Creator
- Seattle (Wash.). Office of the Treasurer (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access note
Records are open to the public.
Historical Note
The position of City Treasurer was created in Seattle's first City Charter in 1869. The Treasurer administered the collection, management, and disbursement of all City monies, invested temporary surplus cash, kept accounts of all funds received and expended, and administered Local Improvement District assessments. The Treasurer, like the Comptroller, was an elected official until 1992, when a City Charter amendment abolished the two positions and consolidated the two departments into an executive agency, the Department of Finance.
Full Extent
3 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Rolls of taxes levied by the City of Seattle on its residents, 1874-1876.
Geographic
Topical
- Cemeteries -- Taxation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Fire departments -- Taxation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Gas lighting -- Taxation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Government and Politics
- Property tax -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Public Utilities -- Taxation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Roads -- Taxation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Taxation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Taxes
- Title
- Guide to the Tax Lists for the City of Seattle 1874-1878
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Scott Cline and Shannon B. Lynch
- Date
- Š 2004
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- EAD Location
- http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv80720
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository