Background
O’Connor, Joseph was born on December 17, 1841 in Tribes Hill, New York, United States. Son of Joseph and Mary (Finlay) O’C.
O’Connor, Joseph was born on December 17, 1841 in Tribes Hill, New York, United States. Son of Joseph and Mary (Finlay) O’C.
Graduate University of Rochester, 1863. Admitted to bar, 1869, but never practiced.
Teacher of languages, Rochester Free Academy. Reporter and later editor Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, 1870-1873. Editor Indianapolis Sentinel, 1873-1875.
Editorial writer New York World, 1875-1878.
Editor Buffalo Courier, 1879-1885, Rochester Post-Express, 1886-1896. Writer of “The Rochesterian” in Rochester Post-Express, since 1898.
Author: Poems, 1895. Introduction to “Don Quixote” and “Great English Plays” in World’s Great Books (1898, 1900).
Wrote: Through Dry Places Seeking Rest, Blackwood, January 1901. Home: Rochester, New New York
Married Mission East. M. Johnson, November 20, 1877.