Theodore Newell Haller was a prominent American

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 businessman, attorney, writer, and civic leader in Seattle, Washington

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. He founded Haller City, Washington

Haller City, Washington

Haller City, Washington was founded April 24, 1890, by Theodore Haller and his parents Henrietta and Granville O. Haller. Haller City became part of Arlington, Washington, on May 5, 1903....

, now Arlington, Washington

Arlington, Washington

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. Haller Lake, a lake and neighborhood in Seattle, is named after him.

Theodore Haller (Morris) was the son of Henrietta and Granville O. Haller

Granville O. Haller

Granville Owen Haller was a noted Indian fighter and United States Army military officer, as well as a wealthy postbellum businessman in the Seattle, Washington, area...

, a former Civil War

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 officer and one of Seattle's leading postbellum businessmen. After being educated at Yale University

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, he returned to Seattle and graduated from law school. He established one of the city's leading practices.

In 1905, he platted a cluster of lots around the lake that would bear his name. The Haller Fountain in Port Townsend

Port Townsend, Washington

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was donated to the town by Haller. It had first been displayed at the Chicago Exhibition of 1893.