Francis Pharcellus Church

Francis Pharcellus Church (February 22, 1839 - April 11, 1906) was an American publisher and editor.

He was born in Rochester, New York.

With his brother William Conant Church[?] he established the "Army and Navy Journal" in 1863, and "Galaxy" magazine in 1866. He was a lead editorial writer on his brother's newspaper, the New York Sun, and it was in that capacity that in 1897 he wrote his most famous editorial, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He also wrote biographies of Ulysses S. Grant in 1899 and John Ericsson in 1891.

A third brother John Adams Church[?] was famous as a mining engineer, and was present in Tombstone, Arizona at the time of the OK Corral[?].

He died in New York City.