Background
O'Brien was born in Ireland in County Galway, Ireland, December 4, 1848.
O'Brien was born in Ireland in County Galway, Ireland, December 4, 1848.
A lawyer of Irish Catholic ancestry, he served as the mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota from 1883 to 1885 List of Mayors of Saint Paul, Minn. He died in St. , August 27, 1922. Dillon O'Brien wrote The Dalys of Dalystown (1866), a novel set in Ireland. that advocates a solution to Ireland's land question based on the virtues of a Catholic upper class.
And Dead Broke a novel concerned with the conflict between human values and the modern world.