Writing in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, James G. Warren, discussed the story of David T. Denny (1832-1903), part of the pioneering "Denny Party," an early band of white settlers in what became Seattle beginning in the Fall 1851. David Denny, then 19, was part of scouting party that scoured the Puget Sound area for attractive homesites in 09/1851. Two months later, his elder brother Arthur Armstrong Denny (1822-1899) and 22 others, landed at Alki Point in what is now the West Seattle Neighborhood of the city on 11/13/1851; months after arriving, the Dennys left Alki (or what they renamed "New York") and obtained land on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, the area that became Downtown and its surrounding neighborhoods. Warren wrote: "The following spring several of them selected land claims on the east shore of Elliott Bay. David Denny built a cabin in the woods near where present Denny Way meets the bay. Then on 01/23/1853, in his brother Arthur's cabin, he and Louisa Boren were married." This log cabin was the first residence shared by David T. Denny and Louisa Boren Denny. They would go on to have 8 children, raised in this and subsequent residences.

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