James Frances O’Conner
Born: November 28, 1861 at Portsmouth, Virginia
Home Town: Portsmouth, Virginia
Medal of Honor
Peacetime Awards
U.S. Navy
War Department, General Orders No. 326 (October 18, 1884)
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Landsman, Engineer’s Force James Frances O’Conner, United States Navy, for gallant and heroic conduct in jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Jean Sands, opposite the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, on the night of 15 June 1880, and rescuing from drowning a young girl who had fallen overboard.