John Bisco

(Born: October 9, 1808 - Died: Feb. 7, 1895)

Publisher of the Broadway Journal. Trow’s New York City Directory (in editions for May 1, 1857 - May 1, 1865) lists him as a real estate agent. He is listed in the US Census for June 1870, where his age is given as 61 and the location of his birth as Massachusetts. He is no longer listed in Trow’s for 1872. His papers were left to Mr. Sidney Fisher, another real estate agent in New York City. There is an obituary for Bisco in the New York Times, Feb. 8, 1895. It states that he was born in Spencer, MA., and that he married Letitia Moore Lee (1816-1892). They had four daughters. In his final years, he lived at 238 East 23rd Street. According to the Times article, he became a real estate agent following the demise of the Broadway Journal. Prior to moving to New York, he had been a school teacher in Spencer, MA and Woodbridge, NJ. His parents were Jacob Bisco and Sarah Draper Bisco. According to Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts (New York: Lewis Publishing, Co., 1907, vol. I, p. 529), he was the seventh of eleven children, and was born in Spencer, MA. He married Letitia Moore Lee, of Woodbridge, NJ, on November 25, 1835. She was born on December 30, 1816 and died on March 18, 1892.