This article incorporates text from the entry John Rose Greene Hassard in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
John Rose Greene Hassard (b. in New York, U.S.A., 4 September, 1836; d. in that city, 18 April, 1888) was an editor and historian. His parents were Episcopalians, his mother being a granddaughter of Commodore Nicholson of Revolutionary fame. He became a Catholic at the age of fifteen and, after graduating at St. John's Colleg...
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This article incorporates text from the entry John Rose Greene Hassard in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
John Rose Greene Hassard (b. in New York, U.S.A., 4 September, 1836; d. in that city, 18 April, 1888) was an editor and historian. His parents were Episcopalians, his mother being a granddaughter of Commodore Nicholson of Revolutionary fame. He became a Catholic at the age of fifteen and, after graduating at St. John's College, New York, entered the diocesan seminary, intending to study for the priesthood.
Ill-health, however, forced him to abandon this idea and he turned to literature. He was the first editor of the Catholic World magazine, and assistant editor of the Chicago Republican and of the American Cyclopedia, and joined the editorial staff of the New York Tribune, on which paper his principal work was that of literary and musical critic. In the latter capacity he was one of the Wagner school of modern music, writing letters descriptive of the festivals...
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