Mason, Charles
journalist, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 24, 1804, in Pompey, N. Y. He was acting editor of the New York Evening Post in 1837 and 1838; chief justice of the superior court of Iowa from 1838 to 1847; commissioner to draft a code of laws for the state of Iowa in 1848; and judge of Des Moines county court in 1851 and 1852. He was United States commissioner of patents from 1853 to 1857. He died Feb. 25, 1882, in Burlington, Iowa.