James F. O'Connor "Judge O'Connor was born at California Junction, Iowa, May 7, 1878. His father, Patrick O'Connor, was born in County Clare, in 1827, and at this writing is ninety-two years of age...He was reared and married in his native Irish county and came to the United States in 1852. He did his first work as a railroad man in Wisconsin. Subsequently he became a prioneer in California Junction, Iowa, and has spen the greater part of his life as a farmer. He has developed several handsome farms which he still owns in the vicinity of California Junction and is now living at Missouri Valley, Iowa. He...is a member of the Catholic Church. He married Bridget O'Brien, who was born in County Clare in 1836. The record of their children is an unusual one. there were ten in all, and the first eight were daughters. Every one of these daughters married a railroad man. The only two sons chose the profession of a law. Judge O'Connor is the youngest of the family. His brother was Maurice O'Connor, who died in 1917, at the age of forty-two, at Fort Dodge, Iowa. A brief record of the daughters... is...: Mary, wife of James H. clark, of Lincoln, Nebraska; Ellen, wife of Martin Burke, of Missouri Valley, Iowa; Anna, wife of William Mahoney, of Casper, Wyoming; Agnes, who married Michael O'Connor (not related) and lives at Missouri Valley; Elizabeth, wife of W.M. Kelley, of Spokane, Washington; Susan, wife of Charles Shinkle, of St. Louis, Missouri; Johanna, wife of John Dougherty, of Topeka, Kansas; amd Emma, wife of J.P. Finucane, of Houston, Texas. ... Judge O'Connor married Miss Kate Adams at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1898. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adams, are both deceased, her father having been a farmer. To their marriage were born two children: Miles James, now a freshman in Mt. St. Charles College at Helena, and Geneva, a member of the junior class of Park County High School." 368-69 Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921