Lina, O'Toole,
Joey, Tommy and Gram
At one point Rob's Uncle Jack O'Connor got very interested in the geneology I had been researching, and started his own search through ledgers and even made a trek to Canada. He also contacted living relatives like I was trying to do. One of those living relatives, a Lawrence O'Connor loaned him a scrapbook which contained many many pages of O'Connor lore! It was especially rich with newspaper articles on his father Lawrence O'Connor and JFT (or Jefty, as FDR called him) O'Connor. Jefty was comptroller of the currency under FDR, he was also a lawyer, congressman, senator(?), and he even owned a movie studio in California. He also almost ran for Govenor of California. I was doing correspondence with the North Dakota Historical Society, who was quite generous with photo copies of portaits they had of Jefty. Uncle Jack also loaned me the family scrapbook I mentioned above of which I made many photo copies (but not all pages), which I put on the scanner this summer (98). Jefty never married but be sure to look at the picture of him dancing with Greer Garson.
Here are some of the photos from the scrapbook and North Dakota
Historical
Society and from family:
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15
Honora and Lawrence O'Connor
(see the geneology family cards) an article
about Honora and a teapot from the family. This shows Honora's huband a doctor inlisting.
trepanier pope metal
nuns Lina O'Tool Tommy Jo and Gram photo
confirmation
teapot
Larry
Here is JFT O'Connor dancing with Greer Garson
Here is a biography on Jefty and
pictures
1
2
3 4
JFT information 1 2 3
4 5
6 7
8 9
10 11 12 13
14
The scrapbook had a list of dates for communion/confirmation
etc.
Larry O'Connor (Rob's grandpa's bro-who
was a banker) is this our Larry?
bank sale
bank work done
Here is a picture
of Rob and his brother Tom, sisters, Jo and Bernice and cousins:
Mary, Jimmy, Molly and Janie
A photo of Mary and
Tom O'Connor, Rob's Grandparents irish hills
marriage certificates for tom o'connor
witnessed by Lane (his Mom?) and he married
Richard O'Connor , Tommy
O'Connor
and article about Tommy's flights
in the war
Here is a wonderful picture of the Americus Township School with
many OConnor's , and here
is a list of who's who
in the photo
a birth certificate or two 1
2 3
an obituary 1
2 3
O'Toole information
Rob's Gram Imerson and Gram O'Toole together in
front of an old car
Rob's Gram and Gramp O'Toole
a death certificate
