YUBA COUNTY
Biographies
ARNOLD R. BEAN
The spirit of self-reliance, a hopeful disposition, intelligence and ambition were the youthful patrimony of Arnold R. Bean; and the years have chronicled his growing success, bringing him at length to a position among the leading business men of Hammonton. He is one of California’s native sons and was born in Browns Valley, Yuba County, June 22, 1898, his parents being Fred and Elizabeth Ann (Price) Bean, the former a native of Maine and the latter of New York. The father came to California about 1870 and first engaged in the livery business, later conducting a meat market. He is now engaged in the live-stock business and resides in Nevada County, Cal. He is about seventy years of age and the mother is also living. Two sons have been born to them, Arnold R. and Everett Irwin.
Mr. Bean obtained his public school education at Hammonton and a course in the Marysville Business College prepared him for commercial life. When eighteen years of age he started in the teaming business and later established a coal and wood yard at Hammonton, which he has since conducted. He employs progressive methods in the management of his business, is reasonable in his prices and prompt in filling orders. Therefore his trade is a large and growing one, for the public has found that he is a man to be trusted. He also has a forty-acre ranch situated four miles from Marysville, on the Hammonton road, on which he raises grain, but he intends to convert his place into an alfalfa ranch in the near future. Mr. Bean built a beautiful country home upon his forty-acre tract on the Marysville-Hammonton road in 1923. His mother presides over his household and they are now happily and comfortably domiciled there.
Mr. Bean is a member of Marysville Parlor, No. 6, N.S.G.W., and his political support is given to the Republican party. He is a typical young man of the present age, alert, energetic and progressive, and judging from the marked success which has already attended his efforts, his future career will be well worth the watching. He is interested in civic advancement, cooperating heartily in all movements that he believes will promote the permanent interests of his community, and stands high in the regard of all who know him.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 752
MATTHEW H. McCARTY
Among the thrifty and successful farmers of Timbuctoo is Matthew H. McCarty, who has also taken an active part in mining operations and has many friends in Yuba County, where he has resided for fifty-four years. He is a native son of the Golden West and was born at Timbuctoo, January 1, 1869, of the marriage of Andrew McCarty and Susan Flanigan, natives of Ireland. They were early settlers of this part of the State and the father was one of the first men to mine on the Yuba River. He was employed by the Excelsior Water & Mining Company of Timbuctoo, and he also engaged in prospecting independently. He passed away at the age of seventy-two and is survived by the mother, who resides with the subject of this sketch, having reached the advanced age of eighty-seven years. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. McCarty, were six children: Mary Ann, who married H. P. Galligan, of Marysville; Andrew J., who is living in Hammonton; Rose, who resides in Westwood; Matthew H.; Jane, who died March 1, 1902, when twenty-one years of age, as the result of an accident; and Robert, a resident of Hammonton.
Matthew H. McCarty attended the public schools of Smartsville, and when seventeen years of age he secured employment on the Hutchinson ranch at Wheatland. He next became a dredgerman at Marigold, filling that position for six years, and at the end of that period began mining on the Yuba River, engaging in what was known as “Long Tom” mining. He now operates the home ranch of 140 acres, which he inherited from his father; and the farmhouse is one of the landmarks of Timbuctoo, having been built many years ago. He is a practical farmer, familiar with all the details of his occupation. A firm believer in the cultivation of the soil by scientific methods, he is bringing to bear in the operation of his fine ranch the most modern ideas, and well deserved prosperity is attending his labors, while his genuine personal worth has established him high in public regard. Mr. McCarty is a Democrat, but has never aspired to public office, although he takes the interest of a loyal, progressive citizen in the welfare and advancement of his community.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 752-755
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