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Gatzert was born in 1829 in Hesse Darmstadt , Germany , and emigrated to Natchez, Mississippi in 1849 , coming west four years later. He married Babette Schwabacher in San Francisco in 1862 , and in 1869 opened a Seattle branch of Schwabacher Brothers And Company , a hardware and general store he managed as partners with his brothers-in-law Abraham, Louis, and Sigmund Schwabacher.

In addition to being mayor, Gatzert was a charter member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, served on the Seattle City Council , was president of Puget Sound National Bank and Peoples Savings Bank, and founded Washington 's first Synagogue , Ohaveth Shalom, which opened in 1892 .

Gatzert died in 1893 .