- ba000828
- Item
- circa 1879
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Reverend John McCarty, pioneer of January 1853 and US Army chaplain at Fort Vancouver. He reportedly commuted between Trinity Church in Portland and Vancouver on foot for a number of years. He was involved in establishing churches in Oregon and Washington until April 1868, when he retired to Washington, D. C. He died there on May 10, 1881.