Josselyn, Edgar Alonzo, 1861-1943.

Edgar Alonzo Josselyn was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1861. He was the fourth recipient of the Rotch Travelling Scholarship and studied in Europe from June 1887 to September 1889. He was admitted to the atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal in Paris in July 1887 and passed the entrance examinations for the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in March of 1888. After his return to the United States, Josselyn was a founding member of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, an important early group of American architects who had studied in Paris at the École and who sought to improve the quality of architectural education in the United States. Josselyn later returned to the United States, practicing in New York City from 1897 until circa 1933. He died in Mt. Kisco, New York, in 1943.

From the description of Edgar A. Josselyn papers, circa 1889. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269261482