Patrick S. Casserly

Patrick Sarsfield Casserly
Born1792[1]
Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
Died30 April 1847 (aged 55)[2]
New York City, New York
NationalityIrish
ChildrenPatrick Sarsfield Casserly, Jr. (died 14 Oct 1850),[3] Eugene Casserly, George W. Casserly

Patrick Sarsfield Casserly (1792 – 30 April 1847) was an Irish scholar, editor and educator.[2]

Biography

Casserly was born in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland, to Patrick Casserly and Elizabeth Horan. His family was a branch of the O'Connors. He emigrated to the United States in 1824,[4] settling in New York City, where he became one of the first Roman Catholic educators.[5]

He was associate editor of the New York Weekly Register. He translated the "Sublime and Beautiful" of Longinus, and "Of the Little Garden of Roses and Valley of Lillies" of Thomas à Kempis; edited Jacob's Greek Reader (1836), of which sixteen editions were published, and a textbook on Latin Prosody (1845), which is still extensively used in classical schools, and wrote and published a pamphlet entitled New England Critics and New York Editors, in reply to an article in the North American Review on the merits of certain Greek textbooks.[6]

He was the father of U.S. Senator Eugene Casserly.[2]

Casserly died at his home in New York City after a brief illness.[7][2]

References

  1. ^ Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915
  2. ^ a b c d "Death of Patrick Sarsfield Casserly". The Freeman's Journal. Dublin. 4 June 1847. p. 7.
  3. ^ "Died". Daily Alta California. 15 October 1850. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  4. ^ Shuck, Oscar (1870). Representative and leading men of the Pacific. San Francisco: Bacon and Co. pp. 365–371.
  5. ^ "Stumbles on Famous Grave". Oakland Tribune. Oakland, California. 6 August 1916. p. 22. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  6. ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Patrick S. Casserly" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  7. ^ "Died". New-York Daily Tribune. 1 May 1847. Retrieved 25 May 2014.