JOHN CHARLES O'CONNELL, cotton commission merchant and buyer, was born in Mobile, Ala., October 12, 1837, and was educated at the Christian Brothers' school. At the age of seventeen he entered a foundry in Mobile, and remained about two years, and then went on a steamboat as engineer, eventually reaching the position of chief engineer. Subsequently he became an engineer in the Confederate service, serving about eighteen months at the beginning of the war in the Twenty-fourth Alabama regiment, and afterward in the navy until the war closed. He was wounded in Mobile bay while fighting Farragut. He located in Montgomery in 1871, and was employed as engineer and then as shipping clerk, and in 1874 went into the cotton business, which he now carries on. He is president of the Standard Building & Loan association, and of the National Banking & Trust company, and is a thoroughly practical business man. He was married in 1870 to Lucy A. Merritt, daughter of George W. Merritt, of Richmond, Va. Bernard O'Connell, father of John Charles, was a native of Ireland. He came to America when a youth, settling in Alabama in 1836. He was in the Mexican war, and was also captain of company B, Twenty-fourth Alabama infantry in the Confederate service. He died in 1871. His wife's maiden name was Katharine Smith, a native of Ireland.
Source document - "Memorial Record of Alabama", Personal Memoirs- Montgomery County, pp 725-726
Source document - "Memorial Record of Alabama", Personal Memoirs- Montgomery County, pp 725-726
JOHN CHARLES O'CONNELL, cotton commission merchant and buyer, was born in Mobile, Ala., October 12, 1837, and was educated at the Christian Brothers' school. At the age of seventeen he entered a foundry in Mobile, and remained about two years, and then went on a steamboat as engineer, eventually reaching the position of chief engineer. Subsequently he became an engineer in the Confederate service, serving about eighteen months at the beginning of the war in the Twenty-fourth Alabama regiment, and afterward in the navy until the war closed. He was wounded in Mobile bay while fighting Farragut. He located in Montgomery in 1871, and was employed as engineer and then as shipping clerk, and in 1874 went into the cotton business, which he now carries on. He is president of the Standard Building & Loan association, and of the National Banking & Trust company, and is a thoroughly practical business man. He was married in 1870 to Lucy A. Merritt, daughter of George W. Merritt, of Richmond, Va. Bernard O'Connell, father of John Charles, was a native of Ireland. He came to America when a youth, settling in Alabama in 1836. He was in the Mexican war, and was also captain of company B, Twenty-fourth Alabama infantry in the Confederate service. He died in 1871. His wife's maiden name was Katharine Smith, a native of Ireland.
Source document - "Memorial Record of Alabama", Personal Memoirs- Montgomery County, pp 725-726
Source document - "Memorial Record of Alabama", Personal Memoirs- Montgomery County, pp 725-726
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