John McCarty (born 1844)

He was the son of Hugh McCarty and Sarah Rogers, Irish immigrants from County Down.

In about 1863 John joined his father in Brooklyn, where Hugh initially planned on setting up his son to work as a grocery store owner.

For many years he was one of the "Big Four" who controlled the Brooklyn Democratic Party, the other three being Hugh McLaughlin, James Shevlin, and Patrick H.

[6] After he left the State Senate, he moved to Goshen, where he lived for the rest of his life.

[7] He married Margaret O'Neil in the Church of the Assumption near the end of the Civil War.