Tuolumne County Biographies

J. W. McCARTHY

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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The subject of this sketch was born in Columbia, on May 5, 1853.  He resided 
here till 1870, when he moved to Stanislaus.  He was elected Minute Clerk of the 
Assembly in 1875 and 1877, and was elected County Clerk in 1877, and was his own 
successor for three terms.  He is still County Clerk, and a nominee of the 
Democratic Con�vention for Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State.  His 
brother, C. F. McCarthy, is now the nominee to succeed him as County Clerk.  He 
is not married.

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Pg. 418.