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James Lawson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of James Lawson, a merchant of that city.
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James Lawson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of James Lawson, a merchant of that city.
He studied at the University of Glasgow.
In 1815 Lawson emigrated to New York, where he worked as an accountant in the office of his uncle, Alexander Thomson, and in 1822 became a partner in the firm of Alexander Thomson & Company. Having as a young man acquired an interest in literature, in 1821 he selected American writers for representation in John Mennons' Literary Coronal and, later, for similar miscellanies. Duyckinck credits him with the introduction of the best American authors to the British reading public.
His first small book, Ontwa, the Son of the Forest (1822), a verse narrative of Indian warfare, was reprinted in The Columbian Lyre, or Specimens of Transatlantic Poetry (1828), published in Glasgow. In this early period he formed the lasting and wide-spread contacts with men of letters which give color to his life. He contributed to the New York Literary Gazette and American Athenaeum, and in this weekly reviewed the first appearance of Edwin Forrest in New York (November 1826). The two men became intimate and lasting friends, and Lawson was a helpful critic and adviser to Forrest in personal as well as professional matters.
About 1826 the mercantile business in which Lawson was a partner failed, and he turned to journalism. With John B. Skilman and James G. Brooks of the Literary Gazette, he edited the Morning Courier (1827 - 1829), leaving this newspaper when it was combined with Noah's Enquirer. He then joined with Amos Butler in editing the Mercantile Advertiser until 1833. His newspaper interests did not thwart his literary activity. He wrote a romantic tragedy, Giordano, which was played three times at the Park Theatre (November and December 1828), with no great success; it was published in 1832.
In 1830 his Tales and Sketches, by a Cosmopolite, a collection of sentimental stories of Scottish background, written in stilted, formal prose, appeared. He informed his reader that "there is not a passage in them, that contains a vicious or poisonous thought. " Three later volumes came from his pen, all privately printed: Poems: Gleanings from Spare Hours of a Business Life (1857); Liddesdale, or the Border Chief, a tragedy in blank verse, faintly reminiscent of Macbeth; and The Maiden's Oath (1877), a domestic drama. That not one of Lawson's books bore his name in print is a token of both his modesty and his literary judgment.
He was one of the committee with Bryant, Halleck, and others, which selected John Augustus Stone's Metamora as the prize play for Forrest in 1829, and helped in the same way to bring James K. Paulding's The Lion of the West, with its leading character, Nimrod Wildfire, to Hackett in 1831. One of his intimate friends was William Gilmore Simms whom he introduced to the Harpers and assisted in many literary and personal matters. Simms visited him many times in New York and later in Yonkers, and Lawson in 1859 journeyed to South Carolina to see his friend, whose daughter, Mary Lawson Simms, was named for him. Poe also was a friend and frequent visitor in Lawson's home and included him with affectionate comment in the series of articles on "The Literati of New York City".
In 1833 Lawson entered the marine insurance business, but kept literature and its pleasant personal associations to grace his leisure hours. He became important in New York's mercantile life as an adjuster and statistician. He continued to write occasional articles and verse, however, which appeared in the American Monthly Magazine, the Knickerbocker, the Southern Literary Messenger, and Sargent's New Monthly. He acquired a home in Yonkers, where he continued to live after he retired from business--an esteemed and public-spirited citizen. The closing years of his long life were marred by sickness.
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Lawson was married to Mary Eliza Donaldson. She died on January 28, 1886.