The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-27
DIR. o'CoNNoR' SUDDEN DEATH.
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4 tleboro, for he pitched several times
against team Of college PLAYERS who
represented this town. In that same
year he pitched against and defeated
the University of Pennsylvania nine
4 by score of to Q, striking out Il
4 batsmcn lie strnck ont IL Harvard
batsmen in one game that wear ana II
/ Amherst men famed in another con
test. Sixteen Williams men struck out
in one game and 10 of them were of
the first i to face his deceptive de-
livery. lie was captain Of the Dart.
mouth team in 1898, and his record
that year was equal TO that Of the
year before
During his college career, in which
ne was preparing himself for the
practice Of medicine, DR.. o Common
mad many offers to play professional
baseball, but declined them all until
he ended his course ar Dartmouth. He
then signed with the Philadelphia Ma
tional league team but injured his
arm, and left Philadelphia to finish
the season with the New Bedford club
Of the New England league.
lie spent two years OF his student
I NV dl lHt StHOOl OF philosophy
Montreal and graduated in 1895 from
the Long Island college hospital in
Brooklyn, y. y. After serving a peri
OF in st. Mary 5 hospital in New
York ne moved TO Bellows Falls in
that same year and began an indie
pendent general practice
In April, 1904, he moved to Bratt!c-
horo and opened an office in the Bank
building. lie later bought the land
now occupied by the Masonic temple
, and erected unon it handsome resi-.
dcncc which now constitutes the front
part Of the Masonic temple. Five years
later he sold tho property TO the Ma
SOME fraternity ana pure based with
Charles +. Mann the PROPERTY on Main
: street next TO the | nitarian church.
where he erected coy Office hui!d-
inc.
While he had q wide practice in
6 medicine Or. O Conner by his skill
had earned high place among the
p surgeons OF this section. lie WAS 4
+ surgeon connected with the Brattleho.
e ro Memorial hospital and was fire.
qucntly called from town TO perform
. operations of delicate nature. He
made special trips to New \ ork and
Philadelphia for cEnirs tor study in
= surgery.
lie was surgeon OF the Boston 4
Maine railroad and medical examiner
for the Mutual Life and EQuitahlt
q Life insurance companies. Tor the /.
r. G.. b. y. and Leo council. X c.. Iit
was q member OF the Congress, Of
r. Clinical Surgeons of America. OF tn,
: Nindham County Medical society. tn,
Ii Connecticut VALLEY Medical assoria
q tion and tho Vernon: State Mcdica
I association.
~ Ills early interest in AMI pcasur.
Il in promoting the welfare OF the Val
ley Fair association was reoreanize,
r. by that association when in January
\ l9lu, lie WAS unanimously ccctet
i president and he had been re- clecie,
n TO that ofice az each or the three sue
ii cccdin% annual meetings and woul
-. have been reelected again had he liz
#, cd and been willing to serve. Unde
=. has presidency the association has bee
successful aad last year at the annua
meeting the announcement was mad
i, that tho association was out OF deb
80 and Lad = balance in the treasury
- Daring his presidency the debt ha
Gcen reduced steadily year by yea
lille improvements and additions t
a." buildings were being made annua
y ~.
- Dr. O'Connor was a prominent mon
II her Of Leo council X c. and was
past grand knight of the council
- 1905 he was elected state deputy O
on the order and tho following year ia
y. clincd reelection to the Office
o. a Democrat in politics. he ncve
Oh sought Office himself but was alwa,
cd interested in both local and nationa
he campaigns and lent generously OF II
~ aid wherever he thought it would d
r. good and further the interests Of II
~ party with which lac was animated
lac lI, loved music ami was a mcmht
an Of st. Michael Roman Cathol
hc church and Of late had been dircctt
en- Of the choir. While Il student
"a. Dartmouth ne went each sunday
Manchester, y. H., to sin. in one
the large church choils.
cd Dr. O'Caunor married Miss Bride
sat Kelley of Burlington. Dee. 81. lS9
nd exactly II years to Il day before Ii
death, and She survives him. He {
or leaves ono sister, Mrs. K. II. Nc
ne OILS Of Saratoga Springs \. Y, n
er one brother, David Q Conner,
&c. tlattshur1, y. y.
tire Funeral services will he held Mo
ny day morning at 10 clock in St Mic
Ad- acl 5 Roman Catholic church with
nm solemn high mass. Leo council,
ell G., OF which Or. O 'Connor was a pa
ISIS grand knight, viii be in charge Of t
sc services. Delegations from the cou
-a.. ell, the Vermont Wheel club. the y
arc ley Fair association, aud the menbt
en- of the medical profession will after
oon Burial will be in the Catholic cen
Irs. terry here.
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