Biography

02/21/1858 - 11/06/1931

McCARTY, Charles A., a Representative from Wayne County; born, February 21, 1858 in Canaan, Wayne County, Pa.; attended, Prompton Normal Institute; attended, Wyoming Seminary; attorney-at-law; partner, McCarty Brothers, insurance agents; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1884); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1886; resigned from the House, February 8, 1887; elected, District Attorney, Wayne County (1891-1894); elected, solicitor, Wayne County; chair, Wayne County Democratic Committee (1898-1904); elected, council president, Honesdale (1907-1911); appointed, mayor, Honesdale (1911); elected, mayor, Honesdale (1911-1913); unsuccessful reelection, mayor, Honesdale (1913); vice president, Honesdale Dime Bank; died, November 6, 1931 in in Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Glen Dyberry Cemetery, Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.