Career
Translator of work by Ludwig and Wilhelm Roscher and best known for Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States (1895). In 1885, Lalor taught at East Side High School, Milwaukee. Lalor worked as a translator in the Director of Mint, United States Treasury Department.
Lalor collaborated with Louis, Ludwig, and Paul Shorey.
He translated works by Rudolf von Jhering and Wilhelm Roscher. He translated from German two works by Ludwig, a biography of Ludwig Beethoven in Life of Beethoven (1881) and Wolfgang Mozart in Life of Mozart (1880).
In 1899, Lalor died from injuries due to a fall.