William M. McCarty

William Murdock McCarty (May 15, 1859 – December 19, 1918) was a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1903 to 1918.

Biography William Murdock McCarty was born in Alpine, Utah on May 15, 1859, to James Hardwick McCarty and Lydia Margaret Cragun McCarty. He attended Brigham Young Academy in 1881 and 1882, after finishing the public schools. he remained an Entered Apprentice through the next year, but is not recorded in the Grand Lodge's Annual Proceedings as having continued through the other two degrees of Masonry.

McCarty married Lovina L. Murray, with whom he had four children that survived him. He died at his Salt Lake home on December 19, 1918, after an illness of several weeks of bronchial pneumonia.