O'Connor
O'Connor names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
O'Connor ANDREW, an American sculptor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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. AO'CONNORSI JOHN HEJOSEPH 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 pastor at St. Joseph's, Newark, and was made bishop of Newark in 1901. With Cardinal O'Connell he went to Rome in 1920 to attend the beatification of Oliver Plunkett.
O'Connor THOMAS POWER, an Irish journalist and politician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS POWER, an Irish journalist and politician, born in Athlone, Ireland, 1848; graduated from Queen's College, Galway, then for three years did newspaper work. Went to London, worked as journalist there, and in 1880 was elected to Parliament from Galway, becoming a strong Parnell man. In 1881 he toured the United States, lecturing on Ireland. Was elected president of the Irish National League of Great Britain in 1883. Was elected from Liverpool to Parliament six times. He founded several periodicals, the most famous of which is "T. P.'s Weekly." In 1906 he visited the United States again to raise money for the Home Rule monument.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All three men were still living when Collier's wrote in 1921, and each has a finish the entry could not give. T. P. O'Connor, then holder of a Liverpool seat, kept it until his death in 1929, by which time he was Father of the House of Commons and the last Irish Nationalist at Westminster aisingising for a Home Rule monument" had been overtaken by the Irish Free State of 1922; he had also served since 1917 as the first president of the British Board of Film Censors. Andrew O'Connor, praised here for his Paris Salon medal, went on to work such as the standing Lincoln at Springfield, Illinois, and died in Dublin in 1941. Bishop John J. O'Connor of Newark died in 1927; the see he headed was raised to an archdiocese in 1937, and Oliver Plunkett, whose 1920 beatification he travelled to Rome to attend, was canonised in 1975.
Written for this edition, 2026.