Patrick S. Casserly
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| birth_date =1792Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915
| birth_place = Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
| death_date =30 April 1847 (aged 55)
| death_place = New York City, New York
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| children = Patrick Sarsfield Casserly, Jr. (died 14 Oct 1850),{{cite news|title=Died|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18501015&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN------|accessdate=25 May 2014|newspaper=Daily Alta California|date=15 October 1850}} Eugene Casserly, George W. Casserly
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Patrick Sarsfield Casserly (1792 – 30 April 1847) was an Irish scholar, editor and educator.{{cite news |title=Death of Patrick Sarsfield Casserly |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/385244844/?terms=Patrick+Sarsfield+Casserly |work=The Freeman's Journal |date=4 June 1847 |location=Dublin|page=7}}
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,{{cite book|last=Shuck|first=Oscar|title=Representative and leading men of the Pacific|date=1870|publisher=Bacon and Co.|location=San Francisco|pages=[https://archive.org/details/representativele00shucrich/page/365 365]–371|url=https://archive.org/details/representativele00shucrich}} settling in New York City, where he became one of the first Roman Catholic educators.{{cite news |title=Stumbles on Famous Grave |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/79688250/?terms=Patrick+Sarsfield+Casserly |accessdate=23 June 2018 |work=Oakland Tribune |date=6 August 1916 |location=Oakland, California |page=22}}
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.{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Patrick S. Casserly|last=|first=|page=}}
He was the father of U.S. Senator Eugene Casserly.
Casserly died at his home in New York City after a brief illness.{{cite news|title=Died|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/|accessdate=25 May 2014|newspaper=New-York Daily Tribune|date=1 May 1847}}
References
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External links
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- {{Internet Archive|id=completesystemof00cassrich|name=A complete system of Latin prosody}}
- {{Google books|Mc09AAAAYAAJ|A complete system of Latin prosody}}
- {{Google books|dBoBAAAAYAAJ|The Greek Reader}}
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Category:People from Mullingar
Category:People from County Westmeath
Category:19th-century Irish writers
Category:Irish emigrants to the United States