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William Nathaniel Bell
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William Nathaniel Bell (March 6, 1817 – September 6, 1887[1]), originally from Edwardsville, Illinois[2] and later a resident of Portland, Oregon, was a member of the Denny Party, the first group of Euro-American settlers in what is now Seattle, Washington. He lived in Seattle from 1851 to 1856 and then again from 1870 till his death.
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in 1852, Bell was a delegate at the Monticello Convention that produced a petition to US Congress to split the Oregon Territory, creating the Washington Territory, which would later become the state of Washington.[3]