Portrait of Seattle banker Jacob Furth. Born in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic) in 1840, Mr. Furth came to California as a teenager and opened a general merchandise store in Colusa before moving to Seattle in 1882, where he and others organized Puget Sound National Bank. Furth was cashier, receiving/paying teller, and bookkeeper before becoming president of the bank in 1893. Furth was the largest stockholder when his bank later merged with Seattle National Bank. Besides his banking career, Furth organized the California Land & Stock Co. in 1884, which owned a 14,000-acre farm in Lincoln County and he built and operated urban and interurban electric lines, becoming president of the Seattle Electric Co. and Puget Sound Electric Railway. He was a trustee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce for 24 years and was an active Mason. Mr. Furth passed away on June 2, 1914 in Seattle, aged 73. Photograph c. 1892.