who was installed in 1819 and arrived the next year, freeing de Barth to return to Conewago. De Barth remained at Conewago until 1828 when Maréchal's successor in Baltimore, James Whitfield, appointed him pastor of St. John German Catholic Church in that city. He served there for several years until the parish closed in 1841, de Barth retired to Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., to live out his final years (his brother, John, lived nearby). He died there on October 13, 1844, at the age of seventy-nine, and was buried in the cemetery of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington. Notes References Sources Books Articles 1764 births 1844 deaths People from Haut-Rhin Alsatian nobility French emigrants to the United States 18th-century French Roman Catholic priests 18th-century American Roman Catholic priests 19th-century American Roman Catholic priests