History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . tillunfelled waved their approbation, and Mount Tacoma lookedsmilingly on, and from her foothills furnished the fiowers thatnaturally graced so auspicious an occasion. But the father who should have given her away—the grandold pioneer, who had worked through weary years to bring-about so desirable a union—w-as, alas, not there to witness thefinal consummation of his most ardent desires. He had gone uphigher, no longer to found cities on earth, but to become, wemay believe, a welcome reside
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . tillunfelled waved their approbation, and Mount Tacoma lookedsmilingly on, and from her foothills furnished the fiowers thatnaturally graced so auspicious an occasion. But the father who should have given her away—the grandold pioneer, who had worked through weary years to bring-about so desirable a union—w-as, alas, not there to witness thefinal consummation of his most ardent desires. He had gone uphigher, no longer to found cities on earth, but to become, wemay believe, a welcome resident in that city not made withhands, eternal in the heavens—the New Jerusalem, whose streetsare paved witli gold and whose eternal radiance is the presenceof the Lord. His biographer thus narrates the close of General McCarversmost eventful career: In 1875, while on a trip to the newly discovered coal fieldsof the Upper Puyallup, General McCarver contracted a cold,which, after a fortnights illness, resulted in his death, on AprilITtli. His life for lialf a century was full of action, events, and. ^
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