O’Connor (Julia) is born in Woburn.

The daughter of Irish immigrants, Julia O’Connor attends school in Woburn and Medford, and moves to Boston in 1908 to work as a telephone operator at 2 – 8 Harrison Avenue. She joins the newly-formed Boston Telephone Operators Union in March 1912, becomes a labor organizer for the National Women’s Trade Union League, and leads a successful telephone operators strike in Boston in 1919* and an unsuccessful one in 1923.* O’Connor marries Charles Austin Parker in 1925, works for the American Federation of Labor from 1939 to 1957, and dies in Wayland on August 27, 1972.