Born in Danville, New York, in 1858, Captain John Peter Hubrick came north over the Chilkoot Pass with his wife, Myrtle, looking for gold and soon opened a roadhouse on Hunker Creek in Dawson. He built and operated the Dawson ferry in 1900-01 and later sold it to the Canadian government. Following the gold rush he came to Shushana, Alaska and later opened a drug store in McCarthy. He was a licensed guide in McCarthy and in 1916, started McCarthy's first newspaper, the "Copper Bee." In 1922 Hubrick took a photography course from Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, N.Y. The McCarthy Lodge was once his photographic studio and supply store. His panoramic images, still in demand, documented the growth of the Wrangell Mountains region through the early 1900’s. Hubrick died Jan. 22, 1930 in McCarthy after a long illness, survived by a (second) wife, Emma, and three daughters. Most of his negatives were destroyed in a house fire in 1930. [From McCarthy Lodge web site, http://www.mccarthylodge.com/ Accessed 8 Mar 2004; Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Feb. 10, 1930 and the Anchorage Times, Feb. 4, 1930.]