Hiscock & Barclay 150th Anniversary Timeline - 1918-1947

1926 - Judge Hiscock resumes practice with the firm in 1926 when the name changes to Hiscock, Williams & Cowie. Judge Hiscock practices until 1935 when he retires from the practice of law.

1928 - The firm moves offices to the First Trust Building where it would remain until 1979.

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1933 - The firm changes its name to Hiscock, Cowie & Bruce upon addition of a new partner, H. Duane Bruce, who joined the law firm after serving as Corporation Counsel of the City from 1927-1929, and working for MacKenzie, Smith, Michell & Bruce until 1933.

1935 - The firm changes its name to Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce & Lee as a result of associate George W. Lee becoming a partner in the firm.

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1941 - Patricia Ann Mulherin, veteran paralegal at Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce & Lee surprises her coworkers when she decides to enter the Franciscan Mother House in Syracuse as a novitiate nun. She had come to the firm in 1922 from Allied Chemical Corp., with H. Duane Bruce, its general counsel, after it had merged with Solvay Process Company. Mulherin remains with the firm for nearly 20 years. She later becomes chief hospital administrator of St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center for many years.

1942 - Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce & Lee changes its name to Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee & Mawhinney. Donald M. Mawhinney, Sr., joins the firm after serving as assistant district attorney from 1925-1936, and as district attorney from 1936-1942.

1945 - Edward F. McLaughlin joins Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee & Mawhinney in 1945. He leaves the firm in 1959 to join a firm in Rome, New York. McLaughlin is appointed as a New York State Supreme Court Justice in 1973 which he serves until he retires in 1986. He is named a senior justice in 1979.

1945 - Donald H. Miller also joins Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee & Mawhinney in 1945. He remains a member of the firm until 1974 when he leaves to serve as a New York State Supreme Court Justice from 1974 -1991.

1947 - When Judge Hiscock passes away in 1946, he leaves his home to the Syracuse Foundation, now known as the Central New York Community Foundation. For many years Judge Hiscock and his wife had held annual fêtes at their mansion for the orphans of the Onondaga County Orphan Asylum (now Elmcrest Children’s Center). The home is sold to the Syracuse Corinthian Club, a private women’s club, and the proceeds from that sale are used to form the Hiscock Legal Aid Society.