[George Payn]. American educator, born in New York City, on the 4th of September 1826. After graduating at Columbia in 1843, he studied law, but relinquished it to become principal of a large collegiate school in New York City, where he remained many years. He was editor of the Literary Magazine (1848–50) and of several dictionaries of foreign languages. His productions were chiefly school books, among which were First Lessons in Composition (1851); Advanced Course of Rhetoric and Composition (1854); School History of the United States (1857); Natural Philosophy (1859); a series of English grammars (1862–64); one of arithmetics (1863–74); and Language Lessons (1876). He died in New London, NH, July 24, 1881.
