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Mason, Amistead Thomson

soldier, United States senator, was born in 1787 in Loudoun county, Va. He was a colonel in the war of 1812; and was a United States senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817. He was killed in a duel Feb. 6, 1819, in Bladensburg, D. C.

MASON, MRS. CAROLINE ATHER- TON [BRIGGS], author, poet, was born July 27, 1823, in Marblehead, Mass. She was a verse-writer of Fitchburg, Mass., whose poem, Do They Miss Me at Home, was long a popular song. She was the author of Utterance, a Collection of Home Poems; The Lost Ring, and Other Poems; and Rose Hamilan, a tale. She died in