Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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MATTHEW H. McCARTY
 
            Among the thrifty and successful farmers of Timbuctoo is Matthew H. 
McCarty, who has also taken an active part in mining operations and has many 
friends in Yuba County, where he has resided for fifty-four years.  He is a 
native son of the Golden West and was born at Timbuctoo, January 1, 1869, of the 
marriage of Andrew McCarty and Susan Flanigan, natives of Ireland.  They were 
early settlers of this part of the State and the father was one of the first men 
to mine on the Yuba River.  He was employed by the Excelsior Water & Mining 
Company of Timbuctoo, and he also engaged in prospecting independently.  He 
passed away at the age of seventy-two and is survived by the mother, who resides 
with the subject of this sketch, having reached the advanced age of eighty-seven 
years.  In the family of Mr. and Mrs. McCarty, were six children:  Mary Ann, who 
married H. P. Galligan, of Marysville; Andrew J., who is living in Hammonton; 
Rose, who resides in Westwood; Matthew H.; Jane, who died March 1, 1902, when 
twenty-one years of age, as the result of an accident; and Robert, a resident of 
Hammonton.
            Matthew H. McCarty attended the public schools of Smartsville, and 
when seventeen years of age he secured employment on the Hutchinson ranch at 
Wheatland.  He next became a dredgerman at Marigold, filling that position for 
six years, and at the end of that period began mining on the Yuba River, 
engaging in what was known as �Long Tom� mining.  He now operates the home ranch 
of 140 acres, which he inherited from his father; and the farmhouse is one of 
the landmarks of Timbuctoo, having been built many years ago.  He is a practical 
farmer, familiar with all the details of his occupation.  A firm believer in the 
cultivation of the soil by scientific methods, he is bringing to bear in the 
operation of his fine ranch the most modern ideas, and well deserved prosperity 
is attending his labors, while his genuine personal worth has established him 
high in public regard.  Mr. McCarty is a Democrat, but has never aspired to 
public office, although he takes the interest of a loyal, progressive citizen in 
the welfare and advancement of his community.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 752-755