JAMES LAWSON, born in Glasgow, Scotland, November 9, 1799; died in
Yonkers, N. Y., March 20, 1880. He was educated at Glasgow University
and came to New York in 1815. He was at first employed as a clerk in
the counting house of a maternal uncle, who was a merchant of New
York. He began writing for the New York _Literary Gazette_ in 1826,
and from 1827 to 1829 was the assistant editor of the _Morning
Courier_. He edited the _Mercantile Advertiser_ from 1829 to 1833.
For a time subsequently he engaged in the business of marine
insurance. He published several volumes of stories and poems.
DRAMATIC SKETCH. Julian and Elphina.
Published in _Tales and Sketches by a Cosmopolite_. New York,
1830, pp. 99-100.
GIORDANO. A Tragedy. New York, 1832. 8vo, pp. 102.
Played at the Park Theatre, N. Y., November 13, 1828.