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| Courtesy of Jody Marie MacKeil |
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| Courtesy of Jody Marie MacKeil |
A couple of maritimers named Charles L Mason & Charlotte Arbuckle
got married in 1882 at New Glasgow, NS.
Together
they had 5 children: George, Mary, James, Charles & Henry.
They all remained in Nova Scotia except Mary. Somehow, she met a New Yorker in Nova Scotia. What a story it must be, how they met and
fell in love, and making the decision to follow her husband - perseverance was a family affair.
William Joseph Mullane of New York, the son of Thomas Mullane and
Katherine Potts, married Mary Izella Mason in 1905 at Manhattan, NY. He was a Health Inspector and the pair relocated to New Milford, NJ
where they had 5 children – Norma, Audrey, Mary, William and Edwin.
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Mullane - William J, Sr, of 113 Pine Ave, New Milford, NJ, on Friday, March 10, 1967. Beloved husband of Mary Mullane. Devoted father of Audrey Behan, William J, Jr, and Edwin J Mullane. Friends may call at the Lyons Funeral Home, 219 Kinderkamack Road, Westwood, NJ, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm. Requiem Mass St Joseph's Church, Oradell, Monday, 11 am. Interment at St Anthony's Cemetery, Nanuet, NY.
New York Times, 10 Oct 2000
Mullane, Edwin J - It is with deepest sorrow
that we announce that Edwin J Mullane, President of Mullane Ford of
Bergenfield, NJ, and President and Founder of the Ford Dealers Alliance, died
at his home on Saturday, October 7, 2000 of pulmonary complications, the
residual effects of polio, a disease he contracted as a youth. Ed was a man of strong character and strong
convictions. He lived his life by those
convictions, always trying to make a difference in the world in which he
lived. Upon graduating from Fordham
University in 1935, Ed and his brother Bill ran Mullane Brothers Appliance
Business in New Jersey from 1935 to 1955, except for the time spent in the Army
during WWII. He became a Ford dealer in
1956. In 1969, upon successfully
challenging Ford on a warranty issue, he and the Newark and New York dealers
realizing what could be accomplished as a group, founded and incorporated the
Ford Dealers Alliance. Over the past 30
years, Ed became best known as an outspoken protagonist for dealers' rights. He had strongly and consistently espoused the
rights of dealers and the consumer and unstintingly criticized the factory
encroachment of those rights. His
message has been carried in The New York Times, NBC National News and many
other major news media, and has been mentioned in such books as Emma
Rothschild's "Paradise Lost" and "Iacocca's Autobiography"
in which he was the only dealer mentioned by name. In 1993, he was named one of the one-hundred
most influential people in the history of the automobile industry by Automotive
News, a trade publication. He believed
in the words of Edmund Burke, who he often quoted, "The only thing for the
triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." This is the motto by which he lived his
life. He was a good man who never tired
of working towards ending factory injustices.
With Ed's passing, we lose the staunchest supporter of dealer rights, a
devoted leader, but most importantly, we lose a good friend. We will all miss him terribly. Ed's wife Ruth passed away in 1996. He is survived by his brother Bill, his
daughter Mary Alice Hill, and his son Michael, and by seven grandchildren and
one great grandchild.
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