Bio: McCarty, John A. (History - 1798)

Poster: Janet Schwarze 

----Surnames: MCCARTY MCLAREN SMITH

----Source: 1891 History of Clark & Jackson Counties

John A. McCarty (1847)


John A. McCarty, of Hixton, Clark County, was born in Luzern County, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1847, the son on Dominick McCarty, formerly of this place, and a native also of Ireland, near Loch Erin, born May 12, 1798. He was taken to London, England, when a small boy, where he was apprenticed to a shoemaker, which business he followed several years. He came to Prince Edward's Island when a young man, and there married to Matilda McLaren, a native of that place. He worked at his trade there several years, and then came to Luzern County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1838. They were the parents of ten children, six of them who are still living, viz.: Catherine, Elizabeth, John, William, Maggie, and Mary E. The eldest child, Margaret, died at the age of sixteen years Charles H. died in 1882, at the age of forty-seven years James, in 1876, at the age of thirty-eight years.

Mr. McCarty's parents came to La Crosse County, Wisconsin, in the spring of 1857, settling on a farm, where he attended the common schools. He was a soldier in the late war, in Company C, forty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving one year. After the war he went to Melrose, Jackson County, Wisconsin, where he farmed two years, and in the fall of 1867, he came to this county. He worked in the pineries during the winters, and on the farm for W. H. Mead in the summer until 1872, when he settled of his present farm of 200 acres. He has run logging camps several years for others, and also for himself several winters. Mr. McCarty was the first Postmaster at Longwood, having been appointed in January, 1874, by U.S. Grant, which office he held until 1876, when he resigned. He was also the first Town Clerk of Hixon, and he held the office from 1875 to 1886 was Assessor two years Chairman of the Town Board one year Constable one year Justice of the Peace three years Clerk of School Board six years School Director three years, and is now serving his fourth year as school treasurer, and has also filled the office of Treasurer by appointment one year.

Mr. McCarty was married January 1, 1872, to Jeanette Smith, daughter of Christopher Smith, and they have three children: Almon H., Haskell and Dora E. Mr. McCarty is a member of the I.O.O.F. at Greenwood, and also the G.A.R. Post. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

MCCARTY MCLAREN SMITH