William Bonner McCarty groceryman, who operated a plantation store at Rising Sun, on the banks of the Yazoo River." He later opened a store in Jackson, Mississippi known as Jackson Mercantile Co. The original store on McTyere Street in Jackson was a converted barn. William Henry McCarty died in 1910 and two cousins of his, Judson McCarty Holman and William Henry Holman purchased the grocery from the estate. Will soon joined the partnership in 1912 after finishing law school at the University of Mississippi. Jitney Jungle was a chain of supermarkets that got its start in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1919. By 1992, Jitney
Ted McCarty McCarty was named vice president of the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1949, then president in 1950. He remained president until 1966. This period became known as Gibson's golden age of electric guitars. During his time with the company, the Gibson Les Paul was designed. McCarty sought to create a hybrid design that would combine the sustain of a solid-body electric guitar with the warmth of a hollow-body guitar. The ES-335 was created as a semi-hollow with a central block running the length of the guitar and hollow wings. McCarty was also responsible for the development of the Tune-o-matic bridge system,