★ Connor, Patrick Edward

Patrick Edward Connor (O'Connor):​

Born: March 17, 1820

Birthplace: County Kerry, Ireland

Father: Edward O'Connor 1800 – 1883

Mother: Catherine Dillon 1800 –

Wife: Johanna Connor 1833 – 1889

(Buried: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, California)​

Children:

Maurice Joseph Connor 1861 – 1903​

(Buried: Fort Douglas Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah)​

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Katherine Frances Connor Oliver 1863 – 1933​

(Buried: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, California)​

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Patrick Edward Connor Jr. 1866 – 1916​

(Buried: Fort Douglas Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah)​

Occupation before War:

Immigrated to the United States as Patrick Edward O'Connor​

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1839 – 1844: Served in United States Army as a Private in Dragoons​

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1845: Became a naturalized Citizen on April 5th​​

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1846: 1st​ Lt. in Texas Foot Riflemen in the Mexican War​

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1846 – 1847: 1st​ Lt. United States Army serving in Texas Company​

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1847: Wounded in the left hand at the Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico​

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1847: Honorably discharged at Monterrey, Mexico on May 24th​​

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1850: Participated in the California Gold Rush​

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1853: 1st​ Lt. in California State rangers hunting Joaquin Murrieta​

Civil War Career:

1861: Commander of Stockton Blues in the California State Militia​

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1861 – 1863: Colonel of 3rd​ California Infantry Regiment​

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Ordered to Protect Overland Routes in Utah Territory​

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1862 – 1865: Commander of Union Army District of Utah​

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1862: Established Camp Douglas in Salt Lake City, Utah​

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1862: Withheld $30,000.00 from his men in pay to ship them East​

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1863 – 1866: Brigadier General of Union Army Volunteers​

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1863: Union Army Commander at Big Bear Massacre in Idaho​

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1863: Helped to sign treaties with the Natives in Utah​

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1863: Established The Union Vedette Newspaper at Fort Douglas​

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Provided Protection for Non – Mormons and those leaving in Utah​

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1865 – 1866: Commander of Union Army Department of the Plains​

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1865: Union Army Commander of Powder River Expedition​

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1865: Brevetted Major General for his role on the Plains​

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Recruiter of former Confederate Soldiers against the Natives​

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1866: Mustered out of the Union Army​

Occupation after War:

Mining Businessman and Newspaper Owner in Utah Territory​

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Founder of the City of Stockton, Utah​

Died: December 17, 1891

Place of Death: Salt Lake City, Utah

Cause of Death: Urethral fever, general debility, chronic cystitis

Age at time of Death: 71 years old

Burial Place: Fort Douglas Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Brig. General Patrick E. Connor! Salutes remembering General Connor on his birthday.

 

[USS ALASKA]

Glory Hunter: A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor by Brigham Madsen

The life of Patrick Edward Connor serves as a half-century slice of western American history. After leaving New York City, where he had arrived at the age of twelve as a poor Irish immigrant, the nineteen-year-old youth joined the U.S. Army in 1839. He fought in the war with Mexico and then joined the gold rush in California until marrying and settling down in Stockton in 1854.

The Civil War found him volunteering again, this time as colonel of California troops sent to the Utah Territory to protect the mail lines from Indian attacks. Bitterly anti-Mormon, Connor spent the war years alternately engaging in a war of words with Brigham Young or in fighting Indians in northern Utah and present-day Wyoming. After the Civil War, ex-Major General Connor began mining operations in Utah and Nevada, ventures that went from boom to bust. He spent his final years in straitened financial circumstances.

Patrick Edward Connor was a "Man of the West," possessing both its prejudices and its democratic, independent spirit. His greatest success lay as a military leader, and he would have agreed that he was made for war, not peace. He left an imprint on the history of the American West, remembered as the founder of Fort Douglas, as the "first gentile in Utah," the "father of Utah mining," and the "father of the Liberal Party in Utah."

Glory Hunter: A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor (UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PUBLICATIONS IN THE AMERICAN WEST): Madsen, Brigham: 9780874803365: Amazon.com: Books

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USS ALASKA

 

[ErnieMac]

The following website provides some details about the Bear River Massacre.

The Bear River Massacre: New Historical Evidence | Religious Studies Center

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