Nevada Genealogy Trails Elko County Alfred J. McCarthy Biography

ALFRED J. MCCARTHY The Walker Lake Bulletin is a weekly paper published at Hawthorne on each Friday by Alfred J. McCarthy. The sheet is sixteen by thirty-two inches and is a twenty-four column journal. It was established at Hawthorne in 1883 by M. N. Glenn, who sold out to J. M. Campbell, while in 1899 Mr. McCarthy became its owner and editor. He has since published it with much ability, making of it a paper which is a credit to the town. The paper was Republican in sentiment until the silver movement came before the people, when it became an exponent and adherent of the cause of silver, ably setting forth the principles of that party and doing much effective work along that line.

Mr. McCarthy, the present editor and proprietor, is a native son of California, his birth having occurred in San Francisco on the 3d of April, 1853. His father, Eugene McCarthy was a California pioneer of 1850 and Mr. McCarthy's brothers. Denis E. and J. F., as well as himself, were among the most noted newspaper men of San Francisco and of Virginia City, Nevada. Denis E. McCarthy, having edited the San Francisco Chronicle with much ability, became the founder of the Chronicle at Virginia City, and was recognized as a journalist of marked talent and power.

Mr. McCarthy learned his trade in the balmy days of Gold Hill as an employe in the office of the Gold Hill News, and since that time he has been connected with the Sacramento Bee, the Sacramento Union, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Post, and was also in newspaper work in Alta, California. For twelve years he was on the Chronicle of Virginia City, after which his health failed him and he spent a year in Honolulu. He then returned to California and was connected with the Sierra City Tribune for a year, while later he was foreman of the Reno Gazette, but being still in poor health he thought a removal to Hawthorne would prove beneficial. Accordingly he came to Hawthorne in 1888, and has since been the owner, editor and publisher of the Bulletin.

In 1882 Mr. McCarthy was married in Reno to Miss Ada Holmes, and they have three children: Margaret D., Mary R. and John Arthur. Mr. McCarthy owns his office and home in Hawthorne. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the Typographical Union. As a citizen he is very public-spirited and progressive, and advocates all measures for the general good, giving substantial assistance through the influence of his paper.