William B. O’Connor was born in 1820 in Ireland and moved to the United States as a young man. He worked as a laborer in Lawrence, Massachusetts. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Mr. O’Connor left Lawrence to serve at the front, where he performed yeoman service and received an honorable discharge after three years.
Upon returning to Lawrence in 1864, he worked at a paper mill on a poor farm while receiving financial assistance from the state. In 1886, he was incarcerated in the Massachusetts State Prison, where he remained until his death from pulmonary phthisis on May 3, 1890, at 70.
Plot 69: William B. O'Connor
