Justice Macken Praises Cayuga County’s Lawyers. Native of Auburn Recalls Boyhood, The Auburn NY Citizen Advertiser, 9 Oct 1960
Supreme Court Justice Daniel E. Macken recalled this morning in Court that he had been born in Auburn and talked of the years he had lived here later in his chambers. He recalled that his parents had lived on Adams Street, where they moved when he was three years old. But he could not remember what street his parents lived on when he was born. According to an old directory, his parents, Andrew and Mary Macken must have lived on Seymour Street then. Both had come to this country from Ireland. The justice graduated from Auburn Academic High School in 1921, just one month over 16 years old, which made him the youngest pupil ever to graduate from the school until that time. He added that Mr. Wilson had been the principal then. He attended Syracuse University and graduated in 1928. He had remained an Auburn resident until his graduation, the year left Auburn for good and settled in Rochester. Justice Macken is married and has two sons, neither one following in his career in law. The older boy is a resident physician in Roosevelt Hospital in N. Y. City and the younger one just graduated from an aviation course from Lewis College in Chicago. The justice said that it must be 15 years since he last visited Auburn, the year that his sister moved from here to Syracuse. “Of course Auburn has changed,” said Justice Macken, “but not as much as many other cities. And in a way I am glad it has not. I especially enjoy recognizing stores that I used to know many years ago, and other landmarks in the city.” The justice, who was first appointed to the post in 1960, and later elected to a 14-year term in the November election, said he really meant it when he praised the local Bar Association in his remarks opening this session of the court. “We disposed of at least a third of the cases on the court calendar in pre-trial hearings, and that is an excellent record.