MCCARTHY, HON. PATRICK JOSEPH, Mayor of the city of Providence, R. I., 1907 and 1908. Was born in County Sligo, Ireland, 1848, and was about two years of age when his parents, Patrick and Alice (Cullen) McCarthy, crossed the ocean. But they were destined to never reach the mainland of free America, for both father and mother died while waiting in quarantine, at Deer Island, Boston Harbor. Patrick J. was the youngest of seven sons. He became the ward of a society connected with the Catholic Cathedral in Boston, and remained with this society until he was eight years old. During this time he attended the public schools. Winters of following years, until he was fourteen, he attended day school in Somerville, Mass., and night school at Cambridge. About this time Professor Charles Elliot Norton, and some of his college associates, one of whom was Charles William Eliot, ex-President of Harvard University, organized a night school in old Cambridge for working boys, and admitted boys residing in Somerville. Advantage of this opportunity was taken and whenever speaking of this period of his life, Mayor McCarthy expresses his admiration and gratitude for Professor Norton. It was this association with true men that did more to mould his character and direct his mind and thoughts in the right direction than any other influence of his youth. In 1863 he removed to Providence, and while making his home with his brother learned the trade of brass finisher. His ambition was to become master of a business on his own account, and encouraged by a few successful ventures in real estate, determined to qualify himself for business in a proper manner. Realizing that a knowledge of law would be of great advantage to him, he read and studied Blackstone’s and Kent’s Commentaries on Law and made up his mind to choose law as a profession instead of engaging in business, and after suitable preparation entered the Law School of Harvard University. His accumulated savings supported him during the time of the course of study, and he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1876. Returning to Providence, Mr. McCarthy was admitted to the Bar of Rhode Island. He was soon possessed of a good clientage, and later was admitted to the Circuit Court and Supreme Court of the United States. Being an ardent reader and endowed with histrionic ability, the stage appealed to him, and his evenings were spent in the congenial society of those interested in amateur theatricals, Shakespearian readings, etc., and notwithstanding his preference for serious characters, was frequently cast for the comedian’s part. In 1875 he married Miss Anne M. McGinney, of Providence, but this happy union was of short duration, as she died in 1880, leaving one of three children, Mary Josephine, wife of William H. Bannon, of Central Falls, R. I., surviving her. Although a Democrat, Mr. McCarthy has always been a firm believer in