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Mason, Melancthon Wells

inventor, was born in 1805 in Cheshire, Mass. While he was master mechanic of the Syracuse and Auburn railway he invented many important improvements in locomotives that have since come into general use. He is perhaps best known by his locomotive head-light, which he perfected in 1842. He died June 20, 1875, in Rochester, N. Y. was

Mason, Moses

congressman, born in 1791. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1834 to 1837; and subsequently a member of the state executive council. He died June 25, 1866, in Bethel, Maine.

Mason, Otis Tufton

ethnologist, author, was born April 10, 1838, in Eastport, Maine. He is an anthropologist of note, and the author of The Hupa Indian Industries; Woman's Share in Primitive Culture; The Origins of Invention; The Land Problem; Cradles of the North American Indians; and The Antiquities of Guadeloupe.

Mason, Richard Barnes

soldier, was born Jan. 16, 1797, in Fairfax county, Va. He was brevetted major in 1829 for ten years' faithful service in one grade, and brigadier-general in 1848 for meritorious conduct. He died July 25, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo.

Mason, Samson

congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1843, and was afterward a member of the convention which framed the state constitution.

Mason, Thomson

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born in 1733 in Virginia. In 1778 he was appointed a member of the first supreme court of Virginia. He died in 1785 in Virginia.

Mason, Stevens Thomson

lawyer, governor, was born in 1811 in Loudoun county, Va. In 1831 he was appointed secretary of the territory of Michigan, and became acting governor. In 1835, United States senate Jan. 20, 1897, by a strict party vote. He took his seat March 4, 1897, and his term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

Mason, William Powell

lawyer, author, was born Dec. 9, 1791, in Boston, Mass. He published Reports of Cases in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit, from 1816 to 1830, in five volumes; and a second series in five volumes. He died in 1867.

Massie, Charles William

lawyer, jurist, was born July 11, 1849, in Adair county, Ky. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been actively engaged in the practice of law; has been county attorney of Palo Pinto county, Texas, and has served with distinction as special district and county judge of that county. In 1884-85 he was commissioner for Texas to the exposition at New Orleans.

Massie, Nathaniel

pioneer, soldier, state senator, was born Dec. 28, 1763, in Goochland county, Va. At the beginning of the nineteenth century he was one of the largest land-owners in Ohio.

He was active in the early Indian wars, was state senator, and for one term speaker, major-general of militia for several years, and a member of the Ohio constitutional convention of 1802. He died Nov. 13, 1813, in Paint Creek Falls, Ohio.

Masters, Josiah

lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1763, in Woodbury, Conn. He was a prominent member of the New York state legislature in 1792, 1800, and 1801, when he was appointed associate judge of Rensselaer county. From 1805 to 1809 he was a representative in congress. In 1808 he was chosen first judge of the court of common pleas of the county, which office he held until his death. He died June 30, 1822.

Mason, William

legislator, congressman, was born in Connecticut. He served in the legislature of New York from Chenango county from 1820 to 1822; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1837.