JOHN O誰EILL
WATERBURY: Lawyer
Mr. O誰eill was born in Canada Village, in the town of Goshen, November 5, 1841. His parents removed to Waterbury in 1848, in which city he was educated in the public schools. At the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he enlisted in the First Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, participated in the first battle of Bull Run, and was honorably discharged at the end of his term of service. The year following he began the study of law in the office of Judge John W. Webster of Waterbury, and at the end of a three years course was admitted to the bar and soon after to a partnership with his former instructor. The law firm of Webster & O誰eill has continued ever since. Mr. O誰eill represented Waterbury in the general assembly of 1889, where he was author or chief promoter of much of the tax legislation of that session; notably the investment tax law, the collateral inheritance tax law, and the law relative to the taxation of telegraph and express companies. Mr. O誰eill has held office in Waterbury almost continuously since attaining his majority, having been a justice of the peace for thirty years, assistant city attorney ten years, and prosecuting agent of the county seven years. He is now president of the board of trustees of Bronson Library, president of the Choral Union, and a member of the secret society of the Knights of Columbus. He is a democrat in politics, and in religious faith a Roman Catholic. He is married and has five children.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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