Jeff O'Connell

Name: Jeff O'Connell
Birth Name: Jeffray O'Connell
Hometown: New York, New York, USA
Birthplace: Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Died: 1920-02-02 (Age:33)
Pro Boxer: Record

According to a February 2, 1920 news item with an Ottawa, Illinois dateline in the February 3, 1920 edition of the Pittsburgh Daily Post on Newspapers.com, Jeff O'Connell, "a one-time contender for the English lightweight pugilistic championship," died of pneumonia at his home in Ottawa today (February 2, 1920).

According to his registration card on the U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 database on Ancestry.com, one "Jeffray" O'Connell, a "Proffessional Athlete and Waiter," was born on August 11, 1886 in Birmingham, England. At the time of his registration on June 5, 1917, O'Connell was residing in Chicago, Illinois and was employed at the Entertainer Café.