John Gilmary Shea (1824–1892)

[John Dawson Gilmary].  American historian, born in New York, on the 22nd of July 1824. He was educated at the Columbia College Grammar School, and afterward studied law, but did not practice. He edited the Historical Magazine from 1859 to 1865, and subsequently, the Catholic News. Mr. Shea was very prolific as author, translator and editor of historical and ecclesiastical works. He published, among others, Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley (1853); History of the Catholic Missons Among the Indian Tribes, translated from the German (1854); Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi (1862); The Catholic Church in Colonial Days (1886); and Life of Pius IX (1875). He edited the Cramoisy series of 26 volumes relating to the history of French colonization in America and 15 Indian dictionaries and grammars. He died on the 22nd of February 1892. See also “A Spanish-American Epic.”