No. 21573 Edward Payson Jackson’s book A Demigod.
Edward Payson Jackson’s works include:
A Mathematical Geography … Designed for Common Schools. (Hartford, 1872)
Manual of Direction for the Use of the Stellar Tellurian. (Hartford, 1872)
A Mathematical Geography. (1878)
A Demi-God. (1886)
The Earth in Space. (1887)
Character Building. A Master’s Talks with His Pupils. (Boston, 1899)
Edward Payson Jackson was born in Erzeroum, Turkey, March 15, 1840. His parents were American missionaries there. Edward came to the United States in 1845 and studied at Andover Seminary, Dartmouth College and Amherst College, graduating in 1861. He enlisted in Company D, Forty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry in 1862. He became a teacher and was later the principal of the Holyoke High School, resigning in1870. In 1877, Jackson became a master at the Boston Latin School.
His wife Helen M. (Smith) died in 1896. He then married Mary E. Clarke, a physician, and she moved into 41 Lyndhurst Street. It was a third marriage for Mary, whose maiden name seems to be Emerson.
A Demigod: A Novel (1866)
The following is from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:
Demigod is about “a Eugenics program, begun in Greece in the seventeenth century, generates in the late nineteenth century a Superman who boasts extraordinary strength and agility, plus a massive intellect, out of which pours Inventions galore, including a process by which artificial diamonds are created, and a superior hand-gun.”