Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Friendly Sons of St. Patrick The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, officially The Society of The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland, is an American charitable and social organization for Irish-Americans founded in 1771. The Society was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 17 (St. Patrick's Day), 1771. Among the founders were General Stephen Moylan, aide to George Washington and cavalry commander in the Revolutionary War, and Thomas Fitzsimons, representative of Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress and signatory of the U.S. Constitution, both of whom were born in Ireland. George Washington became an honorary
Patrick S. Casserly (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. He was the father of U.S. Senator Eugene Casserly. Casserly died at his home in New York City after a brief illness. Patrick S. Casserly Patrick Sarsfield Casserly (1792 – 30 April 1847) was an Irish scholar, editor and educator. Casserly was born in Mullingar, County Westmeath,