Mason, J O, Dd

Mason, J. O., D.D.

A Baptist minister, was born at Fort Ann, N.J., December 25, 1813. He was converted in his eighteenth year; graduated from the Literary and Theological Institute at Hamilton, N.Y., in 1836; labored as a missionary among the Creek Indians; in 1840 became pastor at Fort Ann, and in 1844 at Greenwich, N.Y., where he died, December 16, 1881. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. s.v.