- BOSTWICK O'CONNOR, whose father was an officer in the Revolution,
was born in 1809 at
- Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1817 the family removed to Cleveland,
Ohio, where the father became a Quaker. The son studied to be
both a lawyer and a physician. He migrated to Wisconsin in 1842;
in 1846 he was living at Port Washington, which he as a Democrat
represented in the convention, serving on the judiciary committee.
He lived in many parts of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Walworth, Kenosha,
Pepin, Rock, and Wood counties. He died March 5, 1884, at Cascade,
Iowa, where he had been station agent for several years. Manuscript
record.
-
- [Taken from "Wisconsin Historical Publications -
Collections, Vol. XXVII - Constitutional Series, Vol. II"
edited by Milo Milton Quaife; (c)1918 Democrat Printing Co.,
Madison, WI; p. 785]
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