Physician and military guide from Oregon
William Cameron McKay (1824–1893) was a scout in the Snake War and Modoc War, a Captain in the U.S. Army, a member of the Warm Springs Scouts, and a physician and surgeon.
William Cameron McKay was born at Fort George on May 18, 1824, what is now Astoria, Oregon. He was the son of a famous trapper and guide Thomas McKay and his wife, Timmee T'lkul Tchinouk, daughter of Tshinouk (Chinook) chief Concomly. He was a grandson of Alexander MacKay and the step-grandson of Dr. John McLoughlin.
Educated by his step-grandfather, he was sent with his brothers to be educated in the Eastern United States in 1838. He trained at Fairfield Medical College in Fairfield, New York. At the age of 19 he was licensed to practice medicine. He received an honorary medical diploma from Willamette University College of Medicine in 1873.
He commanded a group of Warm Springs Indians that served as scouts for the U.S. Army in the Snake War, a campaign against the Northern Paiute in 1866–1868.
He was appointed on several occasions to serve as doctor at both the Warm Springs and Umatilla reservations.
He died in 1893, aged 74, in Pendleton, Oregon.
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