Jonathan Mason

As printed in 1902

JONATHAN MASON.

Jonathan Mason is a farmer and stock raiser of Green township. He was born in this township December 10, 1826, and is a son of James and Electa (Town) Mason. The mother was a native of Vermont and when a child came to Ohio with her parents, but it is not known when the father arrived in this. county. He died when his son Jonathan was very young, and at the early age of twelve years the subject of this review began earning his own livelihood, working as a farm hand at that time. He has depended entirely upon his own resources for a living and he has come off conqueror in the world of business. His educational privileges were necessarily limited, but reading and. experience in later years have continually broadened his knowledge. For a few years he worked for the meager sum of five dollars per month and he had but little saved when he attained his majority. He continued to be employed by the month until about twenty-five years of age, when he was married, the lady of his choice being Miss Malinda Craig. They became the parents of three children: Emmaranda, now the wife of James Evans, a resident of Morton county, Kansas, by whom she has eight children; Oscar, who married Elizabeth Galloway, of Noble county, Indiana, and has two children, Marjorie and Walter Scott; and George, who married Edith Dugan and is the youngest of the family.

At the time of his marriage Mr. Mason located upon rented land and after renting farms for a number of years he finally purchased thirty acres of land, upon which Fred Wilson is now living. He never took up his above upon that property, but selling it at an advance he purchased fifty-six acres where he now lives in Green township. To this he has since added until he has a good farm here of seventy-three acres, and he also owns forty acres where his son Oscar is now living. Throughout his entire life he has carried on agricultural pursuits and his home farm is under a high state of cultivation and equipped with all accessories to a model country property.

In 1863 Mr. Mason was called upon to mourn the loss of his first wife, who died on the 22d of March.‘ Later he: wedded Mrs. Hannah McKinney, nee Skillings, and she died on the 17th of August; 1901..Mr. Mason was reared in the faith of the Whig party and voted for Taylor in 1848. When the new Republican party sprang into existence he cast his ballot for its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, and has since been a stanch Republican, but never an office seeker. He is a member of the Free Will Baptist church, belonging to the congregation of the Ridge. With this he has been identified since a young man, his entire life being in harmony with his Christian beliefand principles.

As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.