O'CONOR, John Francis Xavier, clergyman, born in New York City, 1 August, 1852. He was graduated at the College of St. Francis Xavier in 1872, and became a member of the Society of Jesus the same year. He went to Europe to finish his studies in 1874, and returned in 1879 to assume the duties of professor successively in West Park College, Georgetown University, and Boston College.

Father O'Conor delivered lectures on cuneiform Assyrian in Boston before any school of that language had been established in the United States. In 1884 he secured a cast, of the cuneiform Babylonian cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar in the New York museum, and a year later he published a work containing a facsimile of the cylinder, its history, and the cuneiform text, with a transcription and a translation (1885).

He has also published "Something to Read" (Georgetown, 1880); "Lyric and Dramatic Poetry" (Boston, 1888); "Reading and the Mind" (Woodstock, 1884: enlarged ed., 1885); "Garrucci's History of Christian Art" (1886); "Visits to Holy Places," continued in the series of the "Messenger of the Sacred Heart" (Philadelphia, 1885-'8); and " The Practice of Humility," from the Italian of Leo XIII. (New York, 1888).

O'CONOR, John Francis Xavier, clergyman, born in New York city, 1 August, 1852. He was graduated at the College of St. Francis Xavier in 1872, and became a member of the Society of Jesus the same year. He went to Europe to finish his studies in 1874, and returned in 1879 to assume the duties of professor successively in West Park college. Georgetown university, and Boston college. Father O'Conor delivered lectures on cuneiform Assyrian in Boston before any school of that language had been established in the United States. In 1884 he secured a cast, of the cuneiform Babylonian cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar in the New York museum, and a year later he published a work containing a far-simile of the cylinder, its history, and the cuneiform text, with a transcription and a translation (1885). He has also published " Something to Read" (Georgetown, 1880) : "Lyric and Dramatic Poetry" (Boston, 1888); "Reading and the Mind" (Woodstock. 1884: enlarged ed., 1885); "Garrucci's History of Christian Art" (1886); "Visits to Holy Places," continued in the series of the "Messenger of the Sacred Heart" (Philadelphia, 1885-'8): and " The Practice of Humility," front the Italian of Leo XIII. (New York, 1888).

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