Background
Payson, Edward Saxton was born on September 26, 1842 in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Alben Lemuel and Clarissa O. (Saxton) Payson.
linguist translator Esperantist
Payson, Edward Saxton was born on September 26, 1842 in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Alben Lemuel and Clarissa O. (Saxton) Payson.
Educational public schools, Salem and under private tutors.
In his youth he was an opera singer, from 1882 a piano maker, and from 1906 president of a piano manufacturing company. He began learning Esperanto in 1910, and his translations began appearing in 1919. Between the years 1918-1921 he worked as president of the "Esperanto-Asocio de Norda Ameriko" and after was proclaimed honorary president of that organization.
When he was eighty-seven years old, he wrote an Esperanto novel set in Venice, Juneco kaj Amo (Youth and Love).
His translations from English include some works of Mabel Wagnalls, and a novel by Henry Rider Haggard. He lived in Lexington, Massachusetts for many years at the end of his life, and died there in 1932.
(He enjoyed keeping blooded horses, and had a large farm in Lexington with about twenty of them).
Member National Piano Manufacturers Association (president 1907-1908), Music Trades’ Association (president 1907-1909), National Piano Merchants America, Boston Chamber Commerce, Lexington Grange.
Married Caroline A. Morrill, of Boston, July 10, 1872.