1. Telephone Conversation with John Cullinan, Oswego, New York.
2. Census Returns for the State of New York (1920), U.S. Department of Census.
3. Lawyers Index
4. City and Street Directories for Oswego, New York (various dates).
5. Obituary from the New York Times dated July 30, 1926.
6. Obituaries from the Oswego Palladium Times (various dates).
7. US Social Security Records.
8. Visits and correspondence with Miss Miriam Cullinan of Oswego, New York (1995-1997).

Comments:

1. In 1979, Ronald P. Cullinan of Syracuse, New York mentioned in a letter that there was a large family of Cullinans living in Oswego, New York and that he was not likely related to that family.
2. Patrick W. Cullinan, Hon. (1851-1926). State Excise Commissioner. "Prepared for college at the Oswego High School, he was graduate from Cornell University in the class of 1872, achieving marked proficiency in historical studies and the languages. He subsequently read law at Oswego, and was admitted to the bar at Buffalo in 1875. The following 2 years he was City Attorney of Oswego. In 1880 and 1881 he was elected a member of the State Legislature, serving as chairman of the Committee on general laws, and on the Committees on Canals, Banks, Public Education, and others. He was a firm supporter of Roscoe Conkling in the efforts made to return him to the United States Senate, presiding over the joint conventions of Senate and Assembly to elect senators to fill the vacancy caused by the Resignation of Messrs. Conkling and Platt. In the Republican State Convention, in 1893, at Syracuse, he was chosen as the presiding officer. Since his admission to the bar, Mr. Cullinan has enjoyed a lucrative practice, involving many questions connected with Congressional Committees and the various Departments at Washington. He is at present General Consul of the Department of Excise of the State of New York, with his office at Albany. He is unmarried." (-Seilhamer).
3. Patrick W. Cullinan (1851-1926) - "Excise Commissioner; b. Oswego, New York, June 26, 1851; educated at Oswego High School; graduate of Cornell University, 1872. Studied law and admitted to Bar at Buffalo, June 10, 1875; attorney for City of Oswego, 1877-1878; elected to Assembly, 1879; reelected 1880, and took prominent part in struggle to elected United States Senators to succeed Roscoe Conkling and Thomas C. Platt; chairman Commission on General Laws, and devoted much time to codification of corporation laws of State; delegate to many Republican State conventions, and chairman conv. at Syracuse, 1893; general Counsel State Excise department, 1896; prepared blanks and formulated methods of legal procedure to obtain enforcement of liquor tax law; State Excise Commissioner since May 18, 1901. Member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Address: Oswego, N.Y. (--Leonard)". "He was President of the local board of Oswego State Normal School and for years a Republican leader in the State. He was born here in 1851. He was elected to the State Assembly in 1879 and 1880 and had been a delegate to every Republican State Convention since his entrance into politics. Mr. Cullinan was educated at Cornell University and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He was City Attorney of Oswego in 1877 and 1878 (-New York Times)".
4. John Cullinan (1919-1994) was a lawyer in Oswego, New York for many years. I contacted him by telephone around 1989 and he called me when his visited Ottawa a few years after that. He died at Oswego Hospital on May 4, 1994, after many years of suffering from diabetes.
5. In July 1995 and again 1996, I visited Miss Miriam Cullinan (1918-1997) who lived in Oswego, New York. Miss Cullinan had kept a small brief case that her brother, John, had used to keep the Cullinan records together. The contents of this briefcase were varied in terms of their genealogical value; these included such items as newspaper clippings (contained in a scrapbook that was owned by Edward S. Cullinan), handwritten notes written notes of John Cullinan, some photographs and some printed materials.
6. In the late 1980s, my brother, James Francis (Jim) Cullinan (1959-) was on a business trip to visit a supplier in Oswego, New York. When he gave his name to a receptionist, he was told that James P. Cullinan was the local undertaker.