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On July 21, 1870, Catherine McCarty signed the petition to Judge Reuben Riggs of Sedgwick County to incorporate the town of Wichita. Of 124 signers, she was the only woman. William Antrim signed below her. Judge Riggs granted the petition and the town of Wichita was born.
Catherine McCarty, the mother of Billy the Kid, was known as "a jolly Irish woman". In Wichita, Kansas (the first time she and her sons appear in historical record) she was the only woman to sign the petition that helped incorporate the town.
Jan 12, 2023 · There is no known photograph of Billy’s mother, Catherine McCarty Antrim. The images are often presented as picturing the Kid’s mother, but neither has been authenticated. (Haley Memorial Library & History Center Midland, Texas; Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum)
- Melody Groves
In 1870 the two accompanied each other to Wichita, Kansas and settled in different homes. Antrim built a small cabin six miles outside of town and worked as a small farmer while Catherine lived in town. Catherine lived in the building where she ran her laundry service on North Main Street and dabbled in real estate.
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By Chuck Usmar III – When Catherine McCarty arrived in New York, her first work may have been in her aunt’s Bowery brothel. Immigrants fleeing the Great Famine who arrived in New York City were primarily destitute and forced to live in Five Points tenements, a horror show on many levels. Most of the Irish Catholic immigrants were monolingual, speak...
By Susan Stevenson, Gary Jones and Donald Bonney – It has been established that in 1860 a 30-year-old domestic servant named Catherine McCarty was working in the home of the wealthy John Munn family in Utica, New York. A couple of years earlier, brothers John J. And Edward Finch Bonney lived on the same block of Munn’s Castle. While it is not estab...
By Gary Jones and Susan Stevenson – Did Catherine McCarty live in Indianapolis in 1867-1868? Historians have discussed and assumed the Catherine McCarty living in Indianapolis in the 1867 Edward’s City Directory, was in fact Billy the Kid’s mother. The City Directorylists a Catherine McCarty residing at 385 N. New Jersey Street as the widow of Mich...
By Roy B. Young and Kurt House – On March 16, 1978, Robert N. Mullin wrote James D. Horan the second of two letters in which they discussed the commonly proffered picture of Catherine McCarty Antrim. The first letter was somewhat brief; below is the more detailed information from the second one: [Noah] Rose [collector of photographs of frontier cha...
By Susan Stevenson and Gary Jones – In September 1875, William H. McCarty fled Silver City, New Mexico Territory, heading toward Globe, Arizona Territory. According to Frederick Nolan, his first stop was near Clifton while working in the Gila River Valley. Other historians believed that McCarty went to Globe, where he reportedly killed a Chinese ma...
By James Townsend – If Billy hadn’t fled his killing of F.P. Cahill, would he have been acquitted? Recently, I uncovered evidence about F.P. “Windy” Cahill that sheds light on his true character. From Tucson’s Arizona Weekly Citizen on May 19, 1877, just a couple months before he was shot by Billy: In the J.R. Mackey vs Knox incident in 1875, Macke...
By Susan Stevenson and Gary Jones – Was Billy’s “Dandy Dick” favorite mount one of Col. Emile Fritz’s racing stallions? On September 6, 1878, Billy the Kid and a few of the Regulators stole horses and cattle from the Fritz Spring Ranch and headed toward Fort Sumner and the Texas Panhandle. Were these Lt. Col. Emil Fritz’s racehorses he brought from...
May 17, 2022 · Catherine McCarty, the mother of Billy the Kid, was known as "a jolly Irish woman". In Wichita, Kansas (the first time she and her sons appear in the historical record) she was the only woman to sign the petition that helped incorporate the town. She owned her own property and ran laundry but soon moved her family to New Mexico.
Nov 12, 2023 · Catherine was active in her local community and even involved in the founding of the city of Wichita, Kansas. Two images believed to possibly be of Catherine McCarty Antrim, via History Net In Kansas, Catherine met a man named William Antrim, and the two began a relationship. They would marry on March 1, 1873, and Antrim became Henry’s ...
