Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2039
Portrait of Edward Payson Jackson, a Dorchester resident, who lived at 41 Lyndhurst Street.
The following is from Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM
Edward Payson Jackson, author, born in Erzeroum, Turkey, 15 March, 1840. His parents were American missionaries in Turkey. Edward came to the United States in 1845, and was graduated in 1870 at Amherst, where he was poet of his class. During the civil war he served in the 45th Massachusetts regiment. Since 1877 Mr. Jackson has been master in the Boston Latin school. He has published “Mathematic Geography” (New York, 1878); “A Demi-God ” (Boston, 1886); and “The Earth in Space” (1887).
He also published “Character Building” (Boston, 1891).
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