Patrick S. Casserly
Irish scholar and educator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Patrick Sarsfield Casserly (1792 – 30 April 1847) was an Irish scholar, editor and educator.[2]
Patrick Sarsfield Casserly | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1792[1] |
| Died | 30 April 1847 (aged 55)[2] New York City, New York |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Children | Patrick Sarsfield Casserly, Jr. (died 14 Oct 1850),[3] Eugene Casserly, George W. Casserly |
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]
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