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O'Connor (ANDREW an American sculptor He)

ANDREW, an American sculptor. He was born at Worcester, Mass., in 1874, and received his preliminary education from his father and Daniel C. French. He has divided his home between the United States and Paris, and in 1906 received from the Paris Salon 2d medal-the highest award ever given to a foreigner. Among his decorative statues and reliefs the principal are: Central porch, St. Bartholomew's Church, N. Y.; 11 marble statues, Essex co. Court House, Newark, N. J.; bas-relief, Library of J. P. Morgan, N. Y.; General Liscum Monument, Arlington.

American ecclesiatic. He was born at O'CONNOR, JOHN JOSEPH, an Newark, N. J., in 1855, and graduated as A. M. from Seton Hall College in 1875.

From there he went to the American College in Rome and the University of Louvain, where he studied divinity, being ordained priest in 1877. From 1878 to 1895 he was professor of philosophy and theology at Seton Hall College and Seminary. From 1895 to 1901 he was pastor at St. Joseph's, Newark, and was made pastor bishop of Newark in 1901. With Cardinal O'Connell he went to Rome in 1920 to attend the beatification of Oliver Plunkett.

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