James A. McCarthy of Portsmouth, N.H. Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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     JAMES A. McCARTHY,* a member of the Cottle & McCarthy Heat-
ing & Plumbing Company, located on Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, N. H.,
was born in Boston, Mass., December 7, 1865. His parents were Warner D.
and Ellen (Pickett) McCarthy. The father was born in England, while his
parents were abroad on a business trip, but he was reared and educated in
America, and was afterwards engaged in business as a boot and shoe manu-
facturer. His wife, the mother of our subject, was a native of Virginia.
Both are now deceased and are buried in Cambridge, Mass. They had three
children: Mary, wife of John F. Kelley; Elenore, wife of C. Frank Belk-
nap, and James A. The parents were Catholics in religion.
     James A. McCarthy was educated in the grammar and high schools of
Cambridge, Mass. For two years after graduating from the high school he
traveled in various parts of the United States, chiefly for pleasure. He then
began to learn the heating and ventilating business with the firm of LeBosquet
Bros., of Boston, Mass., who were pioneers in this business. After remain-
ing with them for fifteen years as a journeyman on the road and superin-
tendent, he came to Portsmouth, as foreman for W. E. Paul, with whom
he remained for ten years. For eight years subsequently he had charge of
the heating department of the Portsmouth Heating and Plumbing Company,
after which, on October 1, 1913, he started his present business, being asso-
ciated therein with Mr. Cottle. Although a newly established firm, they are
already doing a good business, and their prospects are bright for a success-
ful future.
     Mr. McCarthy is a republican in politics and takes an active interest in

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local affairs. He has served the city as a member of the council, and was
clerk of his ward for three years. He is past grand in the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, esteemed leading knight in the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, and a member of the Royal Arcanum. In October, 1889, he
was married to Julia F. Sullivan, a native of Cambridge, Mass. They have
four children, namely: Ralph G., a graduate of the Portsmouth High School,
who spent three and a half years at Harvard and is now engaged in learning
the manufacture of boots and shoes; James A., Jr., a graduate of the high
school, who is engaged in the forestry business in New York; Agnes M., a
student at the Portsmouth Training School, and H. Francis. The family
are members of the Catholic church.