Archbishop Charles John Seghers (1839-1886)

Left an orphan at a very early date in Belgium, he was brought up by his uncles. He was ordained priest in 1863. He then left for Vancouver Island, where he worked among the pioneer whites and the natives. In 1873, he was named Bishop of Vancouver. One of his first cares was to visit Alaska, after which he turned his attention towards the west coast of Vancouver Island, where he established missions for the Indians. In 1877 he went back to Alaska, and evangelized in succession St. Michael’s, Nulato, Ulukuk, Kaltag, Nuklukayet, and various other points along the Yukon. In 1880 he was named Archbishop of Oregon City. In 1885, he again took possession of his Vancouver, his former see. Whites and Indians then received the benefit of his ministrations, and two missions were founded (1885) in Alaska, one at Sitka, the other at Juneau. But in the course of his fifth expedition to that distant land, he was heartlessly murdered by a white companion named Fuller whose mind had become unbalanced.
(From the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia)