William Joseph Mack
William Joseph Mack was born in Cork, Ireland, on 17 September 1882, the son of Charles Mack and Mary Dugan, both of them Irish-born, as the Oswego register of his marriage records. How and when he crossed to America is not known. By 1915 he was living in Oswego, New York, and working as a lineman.
On the morning of 20 December 1915 he married Mary Agnes Ratigan at St. Mary's Church in Oswego, at a nuptial mass celebrated by the rector, the Rev. Joseph A. Hopkins. He was thirty-one and she was twenty-three, and it was the first marriage for both. The bride was the daughter of Mrs. Julia Ratigan of 97 West Seneca Street and of the late Frederick J. Ratigan, a meat dealer's son who had served as the city's harbormaster. She was married in a traveling suit of cream-colored broadcloth with a corsage of roses, and the Oswego Palladium reported that the couple "were the recipients of many beautiful presents." The marriage was registered at Oswego as certificate 31575. Less than three months later, on 11 March 1916, his wife's mother died.
Their son William Frederick was born at the Oswego hospital on 5 January 1918. The Palladium's notice made a joke of the father's job: "There's a new installer at the New York Telephone Company. He's the twelve-pound son of William Mack and he arrived at the Hospital this morning." Two weeks later his wife had an operation at the same hospital and was reported much improved. The boy was given his maternal grandfather's name, Frederick, as his middle name.
By 1943 the Macks were living at 97 West Seneca Street, where Mary had lived with her mother before her marriage. In the spring of 1943 their son, by then in the Army Air Forces, came home to it on leave with a baby leopard for a mascot, and the paper put it in print, naming the boy's parents as Mr. and Mrs. William J. Mack. In the census of 1930 he was forty-five, born in Ireland of Irish parents, with his wife Mary and their son William, twelve. William J. Mack died on the morning of Thursday 22 March 1945, at sixty-two. The Oswego Daily Times described him as "for many years an employee of the plant department, New York Telephone Co.," the company he had been with since at least 1918. His funeral was held at nine o'clock on Monday morning at the family home, 97 West Seneca Street, and at half past nine in St. Mary's Church, where he had been married nearly thirty years before. He was buried in Saint Paul's Cemetery. The Fulton Patriot listed him a week later among the Oswego County dead. His widow Mary lived until 1961. His son settled in Florida after the war.
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Cite: Heirology, "William Joseph Mack (1882-1945)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/william-joseph-mack-1882-1945-0106b2.