"John McCarty's place in the business world is one of inportance and responsibility as he is general manager for Bisinger & Company, the largest dealers in wool, hides, tallow and furs in the west, with offices in Salt Lake City. Mr. McCarty was born in Ogden, Utah, May 28, 1878, a son of Nelson and Mary Ann (Banford) McCarty. The father was born in Salt Lake City in 1849. The mother, a native of England, came to Utah in early life, crossing the plains after the primitive manner of travel in pioneer times. Nelson McCarty engaged in mercantile pursuits, remaining for many years a well known business man of Ogden, where he passed away in April 1914. The mother is still living and by her marriage she had five children: William N., a well known business man of Pocatello, Idaho; Samuel, living in Salt Lake; Mrs. Robert Fields and Mrs. George Whalen, both of Ogden; and John, of this review.
In the public schools of his native city John McCarty pursued his education untill he started out in the busines world as an employe in a bakery. He learned the trade, at which he continued to work for six years, and in 1893 he became connected with the hide and fur trade at Pocatello, Idaho, as an employe of D. H. McDanield, who conducted an extensice business as a fur dealer there. Mr. McCarty remianed with Mr. McDanield for some time and in 1895 went as jis representative to Boise, Idaho, while later he was transferred by the same company to Pueblo, Colorado. He acted as manager for McDanield & Company at Pueblo from 1900 until 1902. He later became manager for J S Smith & Company, whom he represented upon the road for a year and then opened a hide and fur house at Hastings, Nebraska, which he conducted until 1908. Selling his business at that place, he came to Salt Lake City for Bisinger & Company and since then has been manager of the Pocatello and Salt Lake branches of the business. The house at Salt Lake employs twenty-five people. Mr. McCarty's long experience in connection with the fur trade well qualifies him for the duties that devolve upon him in this connection.
On the 8th of January, 1900, Mr. McCarty was married to Miss Anna Belle Leavitt, of Ogden, a daughter of Jasper and Mary Jane Leavitt of that place. They now have two children: Florence, who was born in Denver, Colorado in 1905 and is a high school pupil in Salt Lake; Ruth Jeanne, who was born in Salt Lake, October 23, 1918.
Mr. McCarty maintains an independent attitude politically. Fraternally he is well known, having membership in the Masonic lodge and chapter, also in the Elks Lodge, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the United Commercial Travelers. He is likewise a member of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake. His business interests have made him widely known through the west, and in conduct of the Salt Lake house of Bissinger & Company he has made for himself a creditable place in the commercial circles of Utah's capital."
Source: "Utah Since Statehood; Historical and Biographical, Volume III" 1919 The S J Clarke Publishing Company