Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Mason, Joseph November 23, 1831 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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Joseph Mason
	This esteemed pioneer and prominent citizen whose life of worthy 
activity has for nearly a third of a century been spent in the region now 
embraced in Morrow county, is one of those substantial and capable men who 
make up the bone and sinew of the leading communities, and has wrought here 
for the advancement of this section with energy and wisdom that commend him to 
all lovers of justice and goodness.
	Mr. Mason is a native of Portugal, his parents, Joseph and Olive 
(Seymour) Mason, being natives of the same place, and his birth occurred on 
November 24, 1831. At the early age of thirteen years he shipped on a United 
States vessel and came to this country, landing first in Massachusetts, whence 
he traveled to California, operating in various mines of that state until 
1858, when he came to Oregon and settled in Salem. In 1871 he came to the 
section now embraced in our county and took a homestead and timber culture, 
where he now resides, eight miles southeast from Ione on Rhea creek, engaging 
there in the same occupation which he followed in the Willamette valley, the 
agricultural art, adding here, however, stock raising. He raises six hundred 
acres of wheat and about fifty acres of alfalfa. His stock is horses and 
cattle. He has added many valuable improvements to the estate, such as a 
comfortable residence, a commodious barn, good orchards, etc.
	Mr. Mason and Miss Augusta, daughter of Fred and Louise (Yonker) 
Bales, of Portland, were married in 1870 and they have become the parents of 
ten children: Frank F.; Ella C.; Clara F., wife of John O. Kincaid; Bertelle; 
Jessie M.; Nettie L.; Helena M.; Mabel: Walter E.; Joseph. Mr. Mason is an 
active participant in the political affairs of the county and state, being 
allied with the Democratic party. In church affiliations he is associated with 
the Catholic and is a liberal contributor not only to that denomination but to 
all worthy causes of religion and education, as well as what will ameliorate 
the condition of his fellows and he is a highly respected and esteemed 
gentleman and one of the most worthy representatives of Morrow county.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the 
individual featured in the biographies. 

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