San Joaquin County Biographies
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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, Cal., 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 r[***] 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 St. 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 Co., and the Stockton Electric Railroad Co.
On October 1, 1920, Mr. McCarty 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 of 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 business man in Lodi. The children are: Arthur R., Jr., Aileen June, Clarke Henery, Blendon O., and Norma Katheryn.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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