MASON, DR. AMOS S.

MASON

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Date: 1/4/2005 at 12:59:11

Biography reproduced from page 283 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Dr. Amos S. Mason, one of the argonauts of 1856, located at Algona, and entered into the practice of medicine. He was a graduate of the Pennsylvania University, at Philadelphia, and a fine scholar and physician. He remained in the county until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when listening to the call of duty, he enlisted and received a commission as captain. After the close of the war, his health not proving very good, he moved to New Orleans, where he lived for some years. He died quite recently at Cincinnati, while on a trip from Washington to New Orleans. At the time of his death he was part owner of the Times-Democrat, at the Crescent City, one of the best papers of the State of Louisiana.