Biography

From NY Historical Society webpage, "Journalist Gerard Hallock was born in Plainfield, Mass., and was graduated from Williams College. By 1827 he had moved to New York where he acquired part interest in the New York "Observer"; the next year he joined David Hale on the New York "Journal of Commerce," a paper that would be indicted by a grand jury during the Civil War for expressing sympathy with the Southern states." He was mentioned in an August 30, 1855 letter to Frances Seward from Mary Patrick, "Poor Kossuth is still traduced and abused to such a degree, that it seems perfectly apparent, that there are hired slanderers in our midst. Nothing but gold could tempt Bennet , and Morse of the Observer, and Hallock of the Journal of Commerce to expend so much time and ink in abusing him."