BIO: Cloyd Alfred McCARTY, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 151. __________________________________________________________ CLOYD ALFRED McCARTY Mount Union, Pa. Bookkeeper: Born at Barree, Huntingdon County, Pa. August 30, 1884. A son of George B. and Emma (Sharp) McCarty. The mother died in 1901; of Scotch-Irish parentage. Joseph McCarty was his grandfather, a blacksmith, who died at he age of eighty-four. The grandfather on the mother's side was Joseph Sharp. They were pioneers of this section. Both are deceased. Cloyd A. McCarty began his early school training at Barree, and later on took a course at the Pennsylvania Business and Shorthand College at Lancaster, Pa., in 1904 and 1905. Was for two years with the Union Furnace Manufacturing Company at Union Furnace, as shipping clerk, and for fifteen years clerical work at Bellwood, Pa., with Penna R.R. Became identified with General Refractories Company at Sproul, Pa.; did clerical work there; was transferred to Mount Union Plant of the General Refractories Company; has been stationed there since. He has served as election officer. During the World War was stationed at Bellwood, Pa., with P.R.R., doing clerical work. Helped to boost the sale of Liberty Bonds, Red Cross and Salvation Army activities during the World War. A Republican. Belongs to Presbyterian church; a supply teacher in Sunday School. Baseball is his sport. Two brothers: Roy Irvin, a machinist, at Claysburg, Pa., married to Susan Musselman; Warren Charlton, a teacher in the public schools of Claysburg. Warren Charlton was married to Vergie Dively, Cloyd McCarty was married to Ella Keith, of Barrie, Pa. Two sons, Albert Gerald, a freshman at Mount Union High School; Wilbert Dean, eleven years, and one daughter, Frances June, three years. One daughter deceased, Marion Helen, who died at the age of seventeen years, in 1925, a graduate of the Claysburg High School, Class of 1923, at the age of fifteen years. Mr. McCarty lives on Market Street, and is much respected in the community.