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George Ditson was born on August 5, 1812 in Westford, Massachusetts, United States. He was a son of William and Mary (Leighton) Ditson.
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George Leighton Ditson
Edit ProfileEducation
Ditson went to school at the Westford Academy and later began to study medicine in Boston. Here his health failed, and he was advised to take a sea voyage. He went away and remained for two years, largely in Egypt and India, where he became engrossed in the study of oriental languages.
During 1863 and 1864 he was a student at the University of Vermont, and in the latter year he was given his, degree in medicine.
Career
In 1842-43 Ditson taught English in a college in Puerto-Príncipe. By 1847 he was off again for the East, making during that year his seventh crossing of the Atlantic. He had already visited western Europe, and it was at this time, most likely, that he went to Russia and Palestine. In 1850 he published Circassia, or a Tour of the Caucasus—loyal to America, to be sure, but suggestive of Cooper in its quarrel with American provincialism, and of Byron in its assumption of a flinty sophistication. The Para Papers on France, Egypt and Ethiopia—“para, ” it is explained, being one of the smallest of oriental coins—was published in English, and in French. A year later (1859) appeared his voluminous The Crescent and French Crusaders, based on a residence in Northern Africa. He wrote two novels, both having to do with love and marriage in Scotland and Italy, Crimora, or Love’s Cross (1852) and The Federati of Italy (1871).
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Membership
Ditson became a member of the Adyar branch of the Theosophical Society.
Connections
In 1860 Ditson married Oralie Bartlett, daughter of a naval officer, Washington Allen Bartlett, and his wife, Ruth Budd Bloom.
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