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George
E. Mason One
of the progressive young farmers of Hickory Grove Township, Jasper County, is
George E. Mason. Reared to
agricultural pursuits, he early became familiar with the details of farm labor,
and in the public schools, which he attended at intervals during his minority,
he received an education which has enabled him to transact successfully the
duties of an active and useful, life, and, judging from the excellent start
which he has made so early, the future must needs be replete with large success
in his chosen field of endeavor, for he has never allowed obstacles to stand
between him and the goal sought and he believes in doing well whatever is worth
doing at all. Mr.
Mason was born in Keopah, Nebraska, October 21, 1885, and he is the son of
Thomas S. and Laura Gertrude (Gasseburg) Mason, the father born in Davenport,
Iowa, and the mother in Richland Township, Jasper County, Iowa.
The father has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits, and he came to
Jasper County when a lad and bought a place in Hickory Grove Township, one
hundred and sixty acres. He soon
had it under proper improvements and cultivation and here established a very
comfortable home and there he remained until I908, when he bought a farm, one
hundred and sixty acres more, a mile northwest of Grinnell, Iowa.
He is a member of the Methodist Church. His family consists of three
children, George E., of this review, who is the oldest; Muriel H., and Winnifred
Margaret. Besides
the common school education mentioned above, which the subject obtained in
Hickory Grove Township, he later went to the high school at Newton and for one
year studied at the University of Iowa at Ames.
After finishing his schooling he returned home and took up farming in
1908 and has since managed the homestead for his father in a manner, that
reflects much credit upon his ability and his industry, for he is always
employed, finding little time for other things than the affairs on the farm, and
that is the reason that the place has such a clean, up-to-date appearance and
produces such abundant harvests from year to year. Mr. Mason was married on May 6, 1908, to Martha McGee, who was born in Newton Township, the daughter of Robert and Dorcas McGee, early settlers of Jasper County and a highly respected and well-known family here. One child has been born to this union, Marjorie. Mr. Mason is a member of the Congregational Church. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. |
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