Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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ANDREW JOSEPH McCARTY
 
California�s rich mineral deposits have been one of the chief sources of her 
present power and greatness, and the gold mining industry has carried the name 
of this State to many sections of the globe.  For nearly forty years Andrew 
Joseph McCarty has concentrated his attention upon this line of activity, and 
Hammonton numbers him among its successful business men and highly respected 
citizens.  He is a member of an honored pioneer family of California and has 
always resided in Yuba County, where he is widely and favorably known.  He was 
born at Timbuctoo, March 11, 1866, and his parents, Andrew and Susan (Flanigan) 
McCarty, were both natives of Ireland.  The father was a native of County West 
Meath, but left the Emerald Isle as a young man and sought the opportunities of 
the new world.  In 1853 he came to California by the Panama route and located at 
Rose Bar, on the Yuba River, being one of the earliest settlers in this region.  
He devoted his life to mining and passed away in Yuba County in 1908, when 
seventy-six years of age.  In 1863 he had married Miss Flanigan, who was born in 
County Cavan, and made the voyage to California in 1860, also coming by way of 
the Isthmus of Panama.  She survives her husband and is still living in the old 
home in Yuba County, having reached the advanced age of eighty-four years.  
Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McCarty, namely: Mary, who married H. 
P. Galligan, of Marysville, Cal.; Andrew Joseph; Elizabeth, deceased; Matthew, 
who resides with his mother at Timbuctoo; James, also deceased; Rose, now the 
wife of G. F. Forbes, of Westwood, Plumas County, this State; and Robert, of 
Hammonton, Yuba County.
A. J. McCarty was reared and educated in his native county, attending the 
Smartsville grammar school, and when eighteen years of age he took up the 
occupation of mining, which he has always followed, on the Yuba River.  Taking a 
deep interest in his work, he readily mastered the tasks assigned him, and 
well-merited advancement has rewarded his earnest, conscientious effort.  He now 
occupies the position of dredgemaster for the Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields, 
with headquarters at Hammonton, and for the past eighteen years he has been in 
the employ of this firm.  Previous to entering their service he acted as ditch 
agent for the Excelsior Water & Mining Company of Smartsville, with which he was 
connected for four years.  He is faithful to the interests of his employers and 
efficiently directs the labors of those under his supervision, securing maximum 
results at a minimum expenditure of time and labor.
Mr. McCarty has been married twice.  At San Francisco, Cal., on March 31, 1891, 
he wedded Miss Maggie Riley, a native of Grass Valley, this State, and a 
daughter of Michael and Sarah Riley.  They were early settlers of that locality 
and Mr. Riley was connected with mining interests.  Mrs. McCarty died September 
26, 1912, leaving a daughter, Margaret.  Four years later, on September 9, 1916, 
at Sacramento, Cal., Mr. McCarty married Mrs. Zoe A. Barker, widow of C. M. 
Barker.  She was born in Detroit, Mich., a daughter of William and Bernarda A. 
(Sullivan) Lansing, and acquired her education in the City of the Straits.  
Later she came to the West and at Colorado Springs, Colo., was married to C. M. 
Barker, now deceased.
Political affairs have claimed a large share of Mr. McCarty�s attention, and 
since 1890 he has been a member of the county central committee of the 
Democratic party.  He is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West, having 
joined the order at Marysville, Cal.  He was trained in that practical school 
which develops strong and self-reliant manhood and the hardy virtues so 
necessary to success in the West, and of all that makes for loyalty and 
progressive citizenship he is an effective exponent.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 802