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ARTHUR R. McCARTY
A widely experienced, general contractor,
who has made an enviable name for himself throughout San Joaquin County and
even beyond its confines, is Arthur R. McCarty, of 215 North Aurora Street,
Stockton. He was born at Copperopolis,
in Calaveras County, California, on September 10, 1886 the eldest son of Ransome Thomas McCarty, a well-known pioneer who followed
stockraising and general farming until his death in 1908, aged fifty-two years,
and who was esteemed as a progressive man of affairs, a patriotic citizen with
the kind of neighborly, helpful feeling.
Mrs. McCarty is still living and resides in Stockton, aged fifty-nine
years.
Arthur McCarty is the eldest of ten
children, all of whom were born in the mountains of Calaveras County; he
attended the district school, and then worked on his father’s farm and stock
ranch. Saving up his money for a
business education, he at length came to Stockton and attended the Stockton
Business College; and when proficient for larger responsibility he entered the
Government service as a forest ranger, riding the range from 1905 to 1909, from
Lake Tahoe south to the San Joaquin River.
In 1910 he located in Stockton and
entered the employ of the Clark & Henery Construction Company, starting as
one says, at the bottom of the ladder; and soon he was appointed timekeeper and
located in San Mateo and Sacramento. In
1914 he became field superintendent of construction, with headquarters at Lodi,
and from 1914 to 1919 he had charge of all the street paving in Lodi, except on
Sacramento and West Pine streets. Coming
to Stockton he superintended the paving of Weber Avenue from American Street to
East Street, all of Yosemite Terrace, and all of East Market Street from Fair
Oaks Avenue to the city limits. He also
paved the Gambetta Addition, the east part of the town north of the
Copperopolis Road, and all of the Sperry Addition and Kelly Addition. All in all, he has superintended several
million square feet of paving in San Joaquin County, including the largest
single job under one contract, in the city of Stockton, namely, 1,300,000
square feet of the Homestead Addition, comprising all between Sutter Street and
the Southern Pacific Railroad, and South and Ninth streets. In addition to the paving he laid
approximately twelve miles of curbs and gutters and sidewalks on this job; and
he paved all of the tracks on Weber Avenue and South San Joaquin Street for the
Central California Traction Company, and the Stockton Electric Railroad
Company.
On October 1, 1920 Mr. Carty severed
his connection with the Clark & Henery Construction Company and established
himself as a general contractor; and not long after he was given the Linden
Revetment contract near Bellota for the county, which consisted of the pouring
of several thousand cubic yards of concrete along Mormon Channel for levee
protection. He did 15,000 cubic yards of
excavation for the National Paper Products Company and laid nearly 100,000
square feet con concrete pavement around the Paper Mill. He constructed the culverts over McDougald
Canal at Anderson Street and Church Street for the city of Stockton. He laid the gravel streets in the Bewley Suburban Acres in Lodi, and approximately four miles
of gravel streets for Dietrich & Leistner in the Burkett Gardens, Stockton;
and in all that he has pledged himself to do, he has never failed to maintain
the highest standards, regardless of profit in the work.
Mr. McCarty is a family man with
five healthy children to bless him and his good wife, who was reared in
Stockton, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Sollars,
natives of Oakdale and Lodi. Mr. Sollars was at one time a prominent businessman in
Lodi. The children are: Arthur R., Jr., Aileen June, Clarke, Henery, Blendon O., and Norma Katheryn.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1608. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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