Biographical Sketch of

Herbert Leroy Mason

Transcribed by Robert Schieber

Source: Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, 
Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin, published 1901 by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1901, Page 588
  

The farming community of Jackson township, Adams county, ahs an able representative in the gentleman above 
named.  He is entitled to much credit for the part he has taken in the development of this region into a 
thriving agricultural district.  He has followed the calling of a farmer from his youth and is thoroughly 
conversant with the details of the work and has built for himself a comfortable estate, and is recognized 
as one of the leading men in his community.  He is progressive and public-spirited, and every enterprise 
tending toward an advance in civilization meets with his hearty approval. 

Mr. Mason was born in Columbia county, Wisconsin, March 3, 1859, the son of H. H. and Emeline (Bump) Mason, 
a sketch of whose lives will be found elsewhere in this volume.  Our subject was about ten years of age 
when the family came to Adams county, Wisconsin, and at the age of twenty-one years he began work as a 
farm laborer.  Later he rented land and engaged in farming for himself at Jonesville, remaining there 
several years.  He purchased his present farm in Jackson township in 1890, and now owns two hundred and 
forty-five acres of land.  He has improved the dwelling and built a commodious and convenient barn, and 
otherwise improved the estate.  He is interested in stock raising to some extent, and has made a success 
of general farming and dairying.
	Mr. Mason was married, January 30, 1883, to Mary Jones, daughter of Nelson and Lucy Jones, of Jackson 
township.  Mrs. Mason died September 23, 1891, aged twenty-nine years and fifteen days.  She was the mother 
of three children:  Tressie May, Florence Ethel and Mary J.  Mr. Mason married Edith Grace Houghtaling, May 
13, 1894.  Mrs. Mason was born in Adams county, Wisconsin, and is the daughter of Aaron and Urusula (Hawes) 
Houghtaling.  Her father was born in Albany county, New York, and now resided in Marquette county, Wisconsin, 
and her mother was born in Lorain county, Ohio, and died at Oxford, Wisconsin, February 5, 1887, aged 
forty-three years.  Mr. and Mrs. Mason are the parents of one daughter, Irene.  Mr. Mason is a member of 
Oxford Lodge, No. 91, A. F. & A. M., and Oxford Camp, Modern Woodmen of America.  In political views he has 
been a Republican from his boyhood, and takes an active interest in all matters of a public nature.  He has 
been a resident of Adams county, and a land owner of Jackson township, for over a decade of years, and has 
always been found on the side of right and justice.  He is one of the esteemed members of his community, and 
well merits his success.


Transcribed by Robert Schieber






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