A New Years Resolution: Find out what happened to my grand uncle, Eddie Stephan McCullen. Family legend, passed down by family historian Judy Herbert, has it that he was murdered in the streets of Manhattan on August 18, 1953. A very high level of probability is attached to this lore. Eddie’s uncle, Judge Edward J. McCullen, apparently sealed the court records surrounding the homicide. […]
Judge Edward McCullen’s Death Brought Tammany Society to a Close
When Judge Edward McCullen died in 1971, so apparently did the last active member of New York’s infamous Tammany Society, which ruled the political scene in the 1950s. Edward J. McCullen, my grandmother Mabel’s uncle, was elected to the Court of General Sessions in New York City in 1942. He took the bench in January […]