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John Thomson Mason (1815-1873)
MSA SC 3520-2065

Notes


1.  Gerson G. Eisenberg, Marylanders Who Served the Nation:  A Biographical Dictionary of Federal Officials from Maryland (Annapolis:  The Maryland State Archives, 1992), 137-138.  J. Thomas Scharf, A History of Western Maryland (Philadelphia:  Louis H. Everts, 1882), 1114 lists Mason's birthdate as May 15, 1815.

2.  Eisenberg, 138.

3.  Ibid.

4.  Ibid.  Who Was Who In America:  Historical Volume 1607-1896 (Chicago:  The A. N. Marquis Company, 1963), 337.

5.  Eisenberg, 138.  Scharf, 1115 writes that Mason delivered an address at the [Washington?] Cathedral at a celebration of the papacy of Pope Pius IX.

6.  Eisenberg, 138.

7.  Ibid.

8.  Ibid.  Scharf, 1115 reports that Mason was U.S. Representative for one term beginning in 1845.

9.  Eisenberg, 137.  Scharf, 1115 cites Mason's place of death as Elkton, Maryland.

10.  Eisenberg, 137.

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