Patrick S. Casserly

Patrick Sarsfield Casserly was an Irish scholar and educator.

Casserly was born in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. His family was a branch of the O’Connors. He emigrated to the United States in 1824.

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 a 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 class-books.

He was father of US senator Eugene Casserly.

Casserly died on April 30, 1847 in New York City.