Editing William O'Dwyer (section)

==Family==
In 1916, O'Dwyer married Catherine Lenihan, whom he met while he was working as a bartender at the [[4 Park Avenue|Vanderbilt Hotel]]<ref>{{cite book |last=DeStefano |first=Anthony M. |date=2018 |title=Top Hoodlum: Frank Costello, Prime Minister of the Mafia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_PU3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT235 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Citadel Press |page=235 |isbn=978-0-8065-3871-6}}</ref> and she was employed as one of the Vanderbilt's telephone switchboard operators.<ref name="Devine"/>  They had no children, and she was in ill health for many years before her death in 1946.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 14, 1946 |title=President, Leaders Send Condolences to O'Dwyer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/55026695/ |work=[[Brooklyn Eagle]] |location=Brooklyn, NY |page=9 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>  Her funeral was originally planned for [[St. Joseph Church, Yorkville (Manhattan)|St. Joseph's Church]] in the [[Yorkville, Manhattan|Yorkville]] neighborhood of Manhattan, where she and her husband were members.<ref name="Mrs._O'Dwyer">{{cite news |date=October 14, 1946 |title=Obituary, Mrs. William O'Dwyer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/444869768/ |work=[[New York Daily News|Daily News]] |location=New York, NY |page=30 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>  The large number of attendees resulted in a move to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where the service was presided over by Cardinal [[Francis Spellman]].<ref name="Mrs._O'Dwyer"/>

On December 20, 1949, O'Dwyer married [[Sloan Simpson|Elizabeth Sloan Simpson]] at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in [[Stuart, Florida]].<ref>{{cite news |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=December 20, 1949 |title=Sky Arched by Rainbow as Couple Takes Vows |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/279935593/ |work=[[Star-Gazette]] |location=Elmira, NY |page=1 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>  They divorced in 1953,<ref>{{cite news |last=Valery |first=Bernard |date=June 7, 1953 |title=A Toreador in Her Life? Lot of Bull, Says Sloan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/451443591/ |work=[[New York Daily News|Daily News]] |location=New York, NY |pages=3, 90–91 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> but remained close, and Simpson attended O'Dwyer's funeral in 1964.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 25, 1964 |title=Sloan Here for Funeral |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/459998275/ |work=[[New York Daily News|Daily News]] |location=New York, NY |page=2 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>