John Rose Greene Hassard (1836–1888)

American journalist, born in New York City on the 4th of September 1836; graduated from St. John’s College, Fordham, in 1855; assistant editor on The New American Encyclopædia; editor of The Catholic World in 1865; on the staff of The Chicago Republican in 1866; joined The New York Tribune as musical and literary editor in 1866; wrote a Life of Archbishop Hughes (1866); The Ring of the Niebelungs (1877); Life of Pius IX. (1878); also a school History of the United States (1878); and A Pickwickian Pilgrimage (1881). He died in New York City on the 18th of April 1888.