BIO: William Brainard McCARTHY, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 88, 91. 
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  WILLIAM BRAINARD McCARTHY, A.M., who prepared the foregoing sketch,* has 
said but little concerning himself.  He was born in West Kishacoquillas 
Valley, May 9, 1853. He assisted on his father's farm and attended the 
public schools until hew was about eighteen years of age, when he began 
teaching.  Later, he prepared for college at the Kishacoquillas Academy, and 
graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., in 1880; 
from this institution he afterwards received the degree of Master of Arts.  
After graduating he engaged in teaching, acting in the capacity of principal 
in several schools, and teaching the higher branches, chiefly German, Latin 
and Greek.  He was principal of the schools of Indiana, Pa.; of the Wood 
street school, Youngstown, O.; and of Poland Union Seminary, of which 
President McKinley is a graduate.
  In December, 1882, William B. McCarthy married Miss Mary A. Kiner, of 
Atkinson's Mills, Pa., who died September 18, 1884, at Poland, O., where Mr. 
McCarthy had just entered upon the duties of principal of Poland Union 
Seminary.  He continued teaching in Ohio for four years.  On July 8, 1886, 
he married Miss Alice Hine, of Youngstown, O., a graduate of Poland Union 
Seminary, and later a teacher in the same institution, as also in Oberlin 
and in Elyria, Ohio; in all of which places she is held in honored and 
grateful remembrance as a capable, thoroughly informed and conscientious 
instructor.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy are:  Helen Mary, born at 
Poland, O., September 6, 1884;; Veda Thalia, born at Poland, O., July 20, 
1887; John Russell, born at Huntingdon, Pa., November 15, 1889; Alice Hine, 
born at Huntingdon, July 30, 1891; and William Vernon, born at Huntingdon, 
December 18, 1893.  Mr. McCarthy takes a lively interest in educational 
matters, and is serving his second term as member of the Huntingdon school 
board.  He is active also in church work, serving as superintendent of the 
Sabbath-school.  He is a member of the session and of the board of trustees 
of the Huntingdon Presbyterian church.  Mr. McCarthy was very successful as 
a teacher; but his health suffered from the lack of physical exercise 
incident to that employment, he formed a partnership with his brother, C. 
Rufus McCarthy, and the firm is now conducting a flourishing business.

*Henry McCARTHY Family