Historical Marker

County Named, 1798

For Albert Gallatin, 1761-1849, a Swiss, who came to U.S., 1780. Penn. Cons. Convention, 1789-90; Legislature, 3 yrs. Congress, 1795-1801. Leader in finance, constitutional and international law, Secretary of the Treasury, 1802-14; Comm., Treaty of Ghent, 1814; Minister to France, 1816-23, England, 1826-27. National (later Gallatin) Bank of New York, president, 1831-39.