OBIT: Edwin Scott McCARTHY, 1922, native of Huntingdon County, PA

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Edwin Scott McCarthy

  Edwin Scott McCarthy, who died Sept. 10th at a hospital in Worcester, 
Mass., and whose body is now on the way to Huntingdon, was the son of 
John R. and Eleanor Lane McCarthy, and was born at Airy Dale, 
Huntingdon County, January 30, 1848.
  He was reared on his father's farm, attending the Roxbury public 
school, when he early manifested unusual talent. He later prepared for 
college at Kishacoquillas Seminary and was a student at Princeton 
University for several years, being a classmate of Ex-Judge Woods, of 
Lewistown, Pa.
  Before and after attending college he taught successfully in various 
schools in Huntingdon and Mifflin counties, being for a time principal 
of the Academy at McAlevy's Fort and later Supt. Of schools in 
Huntingdon. In 1876 he married Miss Elizabeth Kiner, of Atkinsons 
Mills, Pa., who died some ten years ago.
  Mr. McCarthy read law in the office of the late William H. Woods, 
Huntingdon, and later engaged in the lumber business. He came back to 
Huntingdon in 1905 remaining here several years during which time he 
united with the Presbyterian church in the first year of Rev. 
Daubenspeck's pastorate, and since removing to Worcester, Mass., had 
been identified with the one Presbyterian church of the place where he 
was highly appreciated as evidenced by an account of the impressive 
funeral services held at Worcester, Sept. 12th. Mr. McCarthy was always 
a student and even in the last years of his life kept up his knowledge 
of the languages and various sciences.
  Mr. McCarthy is survived by one son, Leon A. McCarthy, of 
Wilkinsburg, Pa., and one daughter, the wife of Dr. Ralph Wilson, also 
by two brothers, Dr. S. L. McCarthy, of Altoona, and W. B. McCarthy, of 
Huntingdon, and two sisters, Mrs. Clara J. Pollock, of Huntingdon, and 
Mrs. Samuel Ebert, of Loysville, Pa. When the body arrives there will 
be no services in Huntingdon only private interment in Riverview 
cemetery.

The Daily News, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, September 15, 1922