Person:John Gresser (1)

The Catholic Church in the United States, Volume 3 at 594:

"Rev. John Gresser was born in New York on April 28, 1870. He received his education in the classics at Niagara University and at St. John's College, Brooklyn, from which institution he was graduated in 1892. He then entered the local seminary and was ordained by Bishop McDonnell on June 12, 1897. His first assignment was to St. Mary's Church, Long Island City, and after a short stay there he was transferred to St. Peter's Church, where he remained until assigned to the rectorship of Hollis [St. Gerard Majella]."

New York Times archives:

December 23, 1894 reports the tonsuring of seminarian John S. Gresser.

"An unexpected incident occurred at the continuation of the hearing into the charges against President Lawrence Gresser of Queens yesterday, when the Rev. John S. Gresser, son of the Borough President, accused Arthur E. Keating, a member of one of the committees, who filed the charges in Albany, of threatening to write to Bishop Charles E. McDonald of the Long Island diocese, to complain of the presence of Father Gresser at the hearings."

The 1920 census reports that he was the pastor of Holy Family R C Church at 205 Fourteenth Street, Brooklyn.

October 22, 1937, Father John Gresser of Presentation Church offered the blessing for the cornerstone of new Queens County Courthouse in Jamaica. [1]