Bailey Gatzert [SEP] place of death
Bailey Gatzert
Bailey Gatzert (December 29, 1829 – April 19, 1893) was an American politician and the eighth mayor of Seattle, Washington, serving from 1875 to 1876. He was the first Jewish mayor of Seattle, narrowly missing being the first Jewish mayor of a major American city (Moses Bloom became mayor of Iowa City, Iowa, in 1873), and has been the only Jewish mayor of Seattle to date.
Gatzert was born in 1829 in Darmstadt, Germany, and emigrated to Natchez, Mississippi
on July 4, 1887, made the 105 mile trip in 4 hours and 34¾ minutes. Completion of the railroad cut down sharply on the demand for river steamer service between Portland and Astoria.
As of October 1899, fares had been reduced on the "Gatzert"'s Portland-Astoria run, to 50 cents, with staterooms costing $1.25, and other berths less than one dollar. On December 3, 1900, the place of "Bailey Gatzert" on the Astoria run was taken by the steamer "Hercules