Henry Groves Connor was born on July 3, 1852, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Connor was a legislator and jurist who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1903 until 1909 when he left to accept an appointment by President William H. Taft to the judgeship of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of North Carolina. He died in Wilson, North Carolina, on November 23, 1924.