


|
|
MONROE COUNTY.1
DE. JOHN W. MASON.
Dr. John W. Mason died at Dundee, Mich., December 22, 1884, aged fifty-five years. At the reunion of the Sixth Michigan Heavy Artillery, held at Benton Harbor, August 26, 1885, Major Harrison Soule, of Ann Arbor, spoke of Dr. Mason as follows:
John W. Mason was born in Barry, Orleans county, N. Y., January 6, 1829; came to Michigan in 1832, and lived at Saline, passing his boyhood there. In 1851, at the age of 22 years, he entered the University at Ann Arbor in the medical department, his tastes inclining to that science.
|
|
|
|
|
|