Background
He was the son of Isaac Gottschalk Ascher, and brother to Isidor, Albert, Hyman, and Eva.
He was the son of Isaac Gottschalk Ascher, and brother to Isidor, Albert, Hyman, and Eva.
He defeated George Henry Mackenzie at Montreal in one of fourteen simultaneous games played by Mackenzie on January 14, 1879. He was a chess columnist at New Dominion Monthly published in Montreal. He was Editor of the Montreal Star and was president of the Young Men"s Hebrew Association of Montreal, the first Jewish charitable organization in Canada.
Ascher died in New York on 12 October 1912.