Reverend Michael J. O’Conner

Michael J. O’Conner was the chaplain for the 101st Infantry Regiment, the old Irish 9th of  Civil War fame,during the First World War in Yankee Division. He was essentially the Boston equivalent of Father Duffy of New York.

After the war he was assigned to St Bridgett’s in Framingham, where he had regimental insignia of the Yankee Division put in the stain glass of the church.

Those crests are still there today.

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