Obituary: Ozaukee County, Wisconsin: Judge B. O'CONNOR ************************************************************************ Submitted by Mary Saggio, August 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ The Cedarburg Weekly News April 2, 1884 Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin A FORMER OLD PORT WASHINGTON JOINS THE SILENT MAJORITY Through the kindness of Gen. HOBART we received the following, taken from an Iowa paper. We had occasion to allude in the NEWS some months ago to Judge O'CONNOR among our old reminiscences. The son's name was not Henry but Edgar, a handsome chubby lad of about 13 years when his parents first settled in Port Washington. Gov. DOTY got him appointed a cadet at West Point. Soon after graduating he resigned his commission, but joined the Union army at the outbreak of the civil war. Gen. HOBART sent us a photograph of the old gentleman; we could hardly recognize our former old friend not having seen him for more than 30 years. DEATH OF JUDGE O'CONNOR -- Scarce had the form of a young member of society been laid away in the silent tomb when Death again has laid his cold icy wing over the breast of the aged and stilled the generous heart of a noble old man in the person of Judge B. O'CONNOR, who died on the 5th inst., at his residence in East Cascade. Judge O'CONNOR became a resident of Cascade some four years ago, as station agent for C.M. & St. P. Ry, which position he was compelled to resign on account of ill health during the past summer. He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in the year 1809, and while quite a young man left New York and located at Cleveland, Ohio, where he resided until 1842. Later in life he was a prominent political figure in the politics of Wisconsin and held prominent positions during his residence there. His son Henry O'CONNOR was a distinguished officer in the union army and was killed in Virginia campaigns and for whom he mourned up to the hour of his own day solution. After the war, he settled at Remington, Wisconsin, and from thence to Cascade where he resided up to the time of his death. Judge O'CONNOR was a firm spiritualist in his religious belief, a man open- hearted, generous, liberal and sympathetic to a fault-full of practical charity for the poor, and no man in needy or distressed circumstances left his presence empty handed. He leaves behind him to mourn his death his beloved wife, a highly cultured lady, who has indeed been to him a constant loving companion; the light of his house, and who when insidious disease had laid the heavy hand upon her husband, nursed him with tenderness to the final end.