I hope that in time a fuller picture can be developed and presented here, in collaboration with my cousins - the children of Martin and Jo Delaney.

Martin Cleveland Delaney, Jr.

Martin Cleveland Delaney, Jr., the son of Martin Cleveland Delaney, Sr. and Edwina Acker Lowery Delaney, was born on September 18, 1908 at 723 Dean Street, Brooklyn, New York. He was baptized on October 28, 1908, in Brooklyn at Our Lady of Good Counsel.

His early education was in the Brooklyn elementary schools. Because Martin had a good voice, he qualified for the choir for the Grace Episcopal Church in Manhattan, where he lived and went to school. When his voice changed, he left and returned to the Stocks/Lowery/Delaney home in Flatbush. He attended Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, where he graduated in 1927. Martin was a graduate of St. John’s University in Brooklyn.

Martin and Maude Josephine Fincken were married on November 8, 1937 at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, New York. Their children are: Carol Lowery Delaney, Leslie Acker Delaney, Susan Martin Delaney; and, John Macklin Delaney.

In the 1930’s he worked for the Bank of New York and as a public accountant in New York City. He was the administrative assistant to the comptroller of Rheem Manufacturing Company in New York, and later became the secretary and treasurer of the Southern Iron Roofing Company (Savannah, Georgia), where he was elected to the board of directors in 1947. From the late 1950’s through the early 1960’s he was a comptroller for Hamilton Propeller in Connecticut. During that period, Martin and his family lived in Simsbury, Connecticut. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s he worked for Chase Bank in the Virgin Islands, and then as the manager of a stock brokerage office in Florida until his retirement. After retirement, Martin lived in Vero Beach, Florida, then Ventura, California for a couple of years, and eventually settled in Denver, Colorado.

Martin died on April 28, 1999 in Denver, Colorado. In February of 2000, his children held a special memorial in a place that he loved, the Virgin Islands, to scatter his ashes.

There are four children from the marriage of Maude Josephine Fincken and Martin Cleveland Delaney, Jr.:

Carol Lowery Delaney
Leslie Acker Delaney
Susan Martin Delaney
John Macklin Delaney