Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Mason, Daniel C 
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DANIEL C. MASON resided on his farm adjoining Joliet from the fall of 1869 
until his death in 1896. During these years he engaged in farming and built up 
a homestead that won admiring notice from passers-by. His original tract 
comprised seventy-one acres in the home place, to which he added until he was 
the owner of two hundred and fifty acres, improved with all needful buildings, 
and bearing every evidence of the owner's judicious oversight. He was born 
January 12, 1811, the seventh among eleven children that attained mature 
years, whose parents, Arnold and Mercy (Coman) Mason, removed after marriage 
from Berkshire County, Mass., to New Hartford, near Utica, N. Y. There he 
remained until twenty-one years of age. Upon leaving home he went to New 
Jersey and worked under his father, who had a contract for building a portion 
of the Delaware and Raritan canal. After a year there he joined the firm of 
Mason & Downing in a contract for excavating through Bergen Hill for the old 
Jersey Central Railroad, and also helped to dig the Morris canal from there to 
Jersey City. The next contract was for building two sections of the Croton 
water works, in New York City. Later he engaged in farming near his old home 
until 1869, when he came to Illinois.

April 16, 1844, Mr. Mason married Miss Cornelia H. Kellogg, the second in a 
family of two sons and two daughters, whose parents were Truman and Melinda 
(Marsh) Kellogg, natives of Oneida County, N. Y. Mrs. Mason was born June 8, 
1824, and was reared on her father's farm. She became the mother of two 
children, Truman A. Mason, of Joliet, and Mrs. Sherwood, who occupies the 
family homestead. Throughout the entire period of his residence in this county 
Mr. Mason proved himself to be a progressive citizen, an enterprising farmer, 
warm friend and accommodating neighbor, and his death was mourned by the many 
to whom his sterling qualities had endeared him.


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Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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