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William Douglas O'Connor was born on January 2, 1832, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and was of Irish stock with an admixture of Scotch.
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William Douglas O'Connor was born on January 2, 1832, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and was of Irish stock with an admixture of Scotch.
In his youth William O'Connor read widely in several literatures and studied art, intending to make it his career, but on coming of age he turned journalist.
William O'Connor's first job as a journalist was at the Boston Commonwealth in 1853 and later on the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, 1854-59.
O'Connor was gaining a reputation as a journalist and literary man when he was summarily dismissed from the Post for writing too favorably about John Brown of Osawatomie. His rejoinder, concocted in his enforced leisure, was a vivid, vehement Abolitionist novel, Harrington (1860), which is still readable.
The rest of his life he spent in the government service in Washington as corresponding clerk of the Light House Board, 1861-73; chief clerk, 1873-74; librarian of the Treasury Department, 1874-75; clerk in the Revenue Marine Division (with which the Life Saving Service was connected), 1875-78; and assistant general superintendent of the Life Saving Service, 1878-79. He wrote the annual reports of the Service, giving to them, and especially to the narrative portions, a literary quality seldom encountered in such documents. Years later Summer Increase Kimball published a volume of extracts from them, Heroes of the Storm (1904), as a tribute to his old friend and adjutant.
The most significant episode in O'Connor's life was his friendship with Walt Whitman, which began with a casual meeting in the office of Thayer & Eldridge, publishers, in Boston, in June 1860. When the poet came to Washington, penniless and friendless, in December 1862, it was O'Connor who came to his assistance, gave him shelter, and found him employment. Of all his services to Whitman, the most famous was the publication of The Good Gray Poet (1866), an eloquent philippic against James Harlan, who, as secretary of the interior, had dismissed the poet from his clerkship. In "The Carpenter" (Putnam's Magazine, January 1868) O'Connor made his friend the hero of a tale in which he appears, unnamed, as a mystic savior of mankind.
After O'Connor's death three of his stories were republished, with a preface by Whitman, as Three Tales: The Ghost, The Brazen Android, The Carpenter (1892). Of his poems the most ambitious was "To Fanny" (1871), remarkable for its metrical finesse.
As the result of a dispute over the merits of negro suffrage, Whitman and O'Connor quarreled and were partially estranged from 1872 to 1882; but when Whitman was again in need of a defender O'Connor was at his side, and their friendship remained close until the end.
O'Connor was also an ardent Baconian and the author of two pamphlets on the subject: Hamlet's Notebook (1886) and Mr. Donnelly's Reviewers (1889). In Washington his home was the meeting place of a group of intellectuals that included John Burroughs, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and other men of note.
William O'Connor died in Washington, of paralysis, after a long illness.
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O'Connor was strikingly handsome, graceful, and magnetic, and had the highly combustible temperament of a romantic Irishman of genius: eloquent, high-minded, impetuous, and chivalrous.
In 1856, William O'Connor married Ellen M. Tarr of Boston, whose sympathy and helpfulness were his lifelong good fortune. Their happiness was marred only by the death of their two children.
