Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....J.J. Mason July 23 1826 - Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II, 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga.
Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895
Page 622

Dr. J.J. Mason was born in Greensboro, Ga., July 23, 1826.  He was reared in 
Greene and Putnam counties to the age of fourteen, going with his father to 
Wetumpka, Ala.  Mr. Mason lived in Wetumpka several years and later he went to 
the Louisiana Medical College, in New Orleans, and then to the Charleston 
(S.C.) Medical College in 1848.  He had studied medicine four years before 
entering a medical college.  After his graduation he located in Auburn, Ala., 
and resided there until 1866, acting as volunteer surgeon in the hospitals at 
Auburn during the civil war.  In 1866 he came to Columbus, Ga., where he has 
since resided and practiced, and he is now the oldest physician of that city.  
Dr. Mason is a chapter Mason, an Independent Odd Fellow, and a consistent 
member of the Baptist church.  His father was Wyley W. Mason, a native of 
Georgia, a lawyer, and for many years was chancellor of the middle judicial 
district of Alabama.  He was also a member of the Georgia legislature when a 
young man.


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