Dates

• Existence: 1868 - 1957

Biographical Note

Born to Irish immigrant parents, James Brendan Connolly attended Harvard, and won an Olympic medal in 1896. He later settled in Gloucester, MA and wrote many stories of the sea. Connolly served in the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry during the Spanish American War and was present at the Siege of Santiago. He died on January 21, 1957, at the age of 88 in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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