Francis Pharcellus Church
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About
Editor, journalist, and publisher who established the Army and Navy Journal and, three years later, the Galaxy Magazine. He penned the well-known 1897 editorial "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus."
Before Fame
He attended Columbia University during the late 1850s.
Trivia
His legendary editorial appeared in The New York Sun, a newspaper that was, at the time, headed by his brother.
Family Life
He and his brother William Conant Church collaborated on several New York publishing projects.
Associated With
He and Andrew Carnegie were both buried in New York's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
