CONNOR, J. C.

CONNOR, GORRY, JONES

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 22:28:07

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

J. C. CONNOR, who is ranked with the intelligent and progressive men of Washington
township, is justly entitled to some mention in the history of Crawford county. Briefly
given, a sketch of his life is as follows:

J. C. Connor dates his birth in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1860.
His parents, James and Mary (Gorry) Connor, natives of Ireland, came to America, and
settled in Pennsylvania when young, and in that State were married. When J. C. was three
years old the family came to Iowa, and located neat Georgetown, in Dubuque county,
where they lived several years. In 1877 they came to Crawford county, first settling near
Denison, then south of Vail, and finally moved into Vail, where they now reside.

The subject of our sketch was reared on a farm. At the age of nineteen he went to
Mills county, Iowa, later to Denver and Ogden, and then on to Idaho and Oregon, having
charge of a gravel outfit for Samuel Tate, a prominent railroad contractor. Mr. Connor
served two years as check clerk, and afterward eight years as bill clerk at Pocatello, Idaho.
Returning to Crawford county, he bought his farm of 160 acres in section 25, Washington
township, of Mrs. W. B. Warren. This property is nicely improved. His cottage home is
16x24 feet, a story and a half, with a one-story L, 14x16 feet. He does general farming,
and is also engaged in stock-raising.

Mr. Connor was married in October, 1884, at Denison, Iowa, to Mary A. Jones, a
native of Clinton county, Iowa. Her father in Clinton county, Illinois, and her mother is
now a resident of Dension, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Connor have two children: Maud Julia,
and Emma May. They lost two sons, namely: Charles, who died in Idaho, at the age of
five years; and Morris, who died in 1892, also aged five years.
Mr. Connor is one of the wheel-horses of the Democratic party in his township. He is a
man in the prime of life, is frank and cordial in his intercourse with his fellow-men, and is
popular with all who know him.