Mason, Charles – Mason, Otis Tufton
Mason, Charles
astronomer, was born in 1730 in England. In 1763 he was commissioned to survey the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland by the respective proprietors of these colonies. He died in February, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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.
Mason, Charles O
poet. He is a writer of Glens Falls, N. Y.; and the author of a number of poems.
Mason, Mrs. Clara Stevens Ar- Thur
poet, was born in 1844 in Maine.
She is the author of The Cherry Blooms of Yeddo, a volume of poems.
Mason, David Hastings
journalist, author, was born Jan. 8, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Chicago journalist who has published a Short Tariff History of the United States.
Mason, Ebenezer Porter
astronomer, was born Dec. 7, 1819, in Washington, Conn. He attained eminence as an astronomer. He died Dec. 20, 1840, in Richmond, Va.
Mason, Emily Virginia
educator, author, poet, was born Oct. 15, 1815, in Lexington, Ky. She was a nurse in confederate hospitals and after the civil war an educator in Paris. She edited a collection of Southern Poems of the War, and wrote a Popular Life of General Robert E. Lee.
Mason, Erskine
clergyman, was born April 16, 1805, in New York city. He was pastor of a presbyterian church at Schenectady in 1827; and of the Bleecker Street church in New York in 1830. From 1836 till 1842 he was professor of ecclesiastical history in Union Theological seminary. He died May 14, 1851, in New York city.
Mason, Erskine
surgeon, author, was born May 8, 1837, in New York city.
From 1879 till 1882 he was clinical lecturer on surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New York city. Among his frequent contributions to medical periodical literature may be mentioned those on Lumbar Colotomy; The Operation of Laparotomy, with a Case; Perityphlitis; and Amputation at the Hip Joint. He died April 13, 1860, in New York city. a
Mason, George
statesman, was born in 1726 in Doeg's Neck, Va. He was a member of the Virginia legislature, and in 1776 drafted the declaration of rights and constitution of Virginia, and was known as the Father of States' Rights.
In 1777 he was a delegate to the continental congress; and in 1787 was a member of the convention to frame the federal constitution. He was elected first United States senator from Virginia but declined, and retired to private life. He died Oct. 7, 1792, in Gunston Hall on the Potomac.
Mason, George Champlin
architect, author, was born July 17, 1820, in Newport, R. I. He was an architect of Newport, R. I.; and the author of Newport and Its Environs; Application of Art to Manufactures; The Old House Altered; Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart; and Reminiscences of Newport. He died in 1894.
Mason, Javan K
clergyman, poet, was born Sept. 20, 1817, in Bethel, Maine.
He has been chaplain of the Maine state prison; and for over a quarter of a century an overseer of Bowdoin college. He has contributed extensively to religious literature, and is the author of a number of poems and hymns.
Mason, Jacob Caswell
educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 10, 1845, in Union county, Ky. He received his education in the Princeton college, Ky., and the Cumberland university. He was first lieutenant of the Illinois state guards at the age of eighteen; and for many years was engaged in educational work. During 1870-78 he was pastor of the Christian church of Bethany, Ark.; and in 1878-83 filled a pastorate at Okolona, Ark.
The succeeding three years he was a state evangelist; then a pastor at Texarkana; and since 1890 has been engaged in the ministry at Houston, Texas.
Mason, James B
congressman. He was a member of the Rhode Island house of representatives for many years; and for a part of the time was speaker. He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1815 to 1819.
Mason, James Louis
soldier, was born in 1817 in Providence, R. I. He participated in the war with Mexico, and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died Sept. 5, 1853, in San Francisco, Cal.
Mason, James Murray
congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 3, 1798, on Mason's Island, Va. In 1826 he was elected to the Virginia house of delegates, and twice re-elected; and was a presidential elector in 1833. He was a representative in congress from 1837 to 1839; in 1847 was elected a senator in congress in the place of Senator Pennybacker, and re-elected in 1849, in which position he continued until 1861. He was expelled from the senate in July, 1861. He died April 28, 1871, in Alexandria, Va.
Mason, Jeremiah
lawyer, United States senator, author, was born April 27, 1768, in Lebanon, Conn. In 1802 he was appointed attorney-general of New Hampshire; and from 1813 to 1817 was a senator in congress. An edition of his Life and Letters was published for private circulation in 1875. He died Nov. 14, 1848, in Boston, Mass.
Mason, John
soldier, author, was born in 1600 in England. He was a Puritan soldier who held a place in the estimation of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans corresponding to that filled by Miles Standish among the Pilgrims. He was the author of History of the Pequot War. He died in 1672 in Norwich, Conn.
Mason, John
clergyman, was born in 1734 in Scotland. Believing that the causes that divided the presbyterians of Scotland did not exist in the United States, he labored for their union into one denomination, and a general union of the reformed presbyterians was effected under the title of the associate reformed church.
Of this body Dr. Mason was the first moderator. He died April 19, 1792, in New York city.
Mason, John C
congressman. He was born in Kentucky; was elected a representative from that state to the thirtyfifth congress.
Mason, John Mitchell
clergyman, author, was born in 1770 in New York. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, long famous as a pulpit orator, his Oration on the Death of Alexander Hamilton being especially noted. He was the author of Letters on Frequent Communion; and Plea for Sacramental Communion on Catholic Principles.
Mason, John S
soldier, was born Aug. 21, 1824, in Steubenville, Ohio. He was promoted major in 1864, and brevetted colonel and brigadier-general, in the regular army in 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war.
Mason, John Thomson
jurist, legislator, congressman, was born in May, 1815, in Montpelier, Md. In 1838 he was elected a member of the legislature of Maryland, and re-elected in 1839. He was a representative in congress from 1841 to 1843, being at that time the youngest man in congress. In 1851 he was elected by the people, under the new constitution of the state, a judge of the court of appeals, which position he filled until 1857, when he resigned, and was appointed collector of the port of Baltimore. He died March 28, 1873, in Annapolis, Md.
Mason, John Young
jurist, legislator, congressman, was born April 18, 1799, in Greensville, Va. He was a federal judge of the eastern district court of Virginia; and judge also of the general court of Virginia. He served about ten years in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1831 to 1837. He was a member of President Polk's cabinet, first as attorney-general, and secondly as secretary of the navy. He died Oct. 3, 1859, in Paris, France.
Mason, Jonathan
congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 30, 1752, in Boston, Mass. He was a senator of the United States from Massachusetts from 1800 to 1803; and a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1820.
He died Nov. 1, 1831, in Boston, Mass.
Mason, Joseph
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 30, 1828, in Plattsburg, N. Y. He was county judge of Madison county, N. Y., from 1864 to 1868; was collector of internal revenue from 1871 to 1876; and was elected a representative from New York to the fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Mason, Lowell
musician, composer, was born Jan. 8, 1792, in Medford, Mass.
He was the first musician who received the degree of doctor of music in America.
He was author and compiler of many collections of choice music, and to him Massachusetts is indebted for introducing music into the public schools. Bethany alone would have rendered his name immortal. He died Aug. 11, 1872, in Orange, N. Y.
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.