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Birth: 31 May 1831
Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, USA
Death: 30 Apr 1898 (aged 66)
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA
Burial: Ferncliff Cemetery

Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 39.935575, Longitude: -83.8201098
Plot: Section C, Lot 26
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Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. During the Civil War he held various commissions, including Captain in the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Captain in the 17th United States Regular Infantry, Colonel and commander of the 7th Maine Volunteer Infantry, and Colonel and commander of the 176th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on June 3, 1865 for "faithful service". A career officer in the Regular Army, he retired with the rank of Colonel in 1895.

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Frances Mary Kingsbury Mason

1844–1913

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Kathro Montague Mason

1868–1930
Mary Needham Mason Moore

1870–1955
Frances Kingsbury Mason

1874–1907
Col Charles Haynes Mason

1881–1951

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Cabinet Card of Bvt. Brig, Gen. Edwin C. Mason, with gilded blindstamp of Timmerman Gallery, St. Paul, ink signed on verso Edwin C. Mason/Colonel Third Infty/Bvt Brig Gen USA. An illustrious career solider, General Mason earned four wartime brevets - Fredericksburg, Wilderness and Spotsylvania - culminating in a brevet star awarded March 1865. Joining the 2nd Ohio as captain in April 1861 he later commanded both the 7th Maine and late war 176th Ohio. Mason was retained in the regular army reaching the rank of colonel, 3rd Infantry in April 1888. He was promoted to full brigadier general USA in February 1890 for his exemplary Indian War service in California against the Modocs 17 years before and for gallant service against the Nez Perce in 1877. General Mason retired in 1895 and died in 1898. Cabinet card is razor sharp showing details of Mason's full dress colonel's uniform complete with MOLLUS medal at neck and three Civil War veteran medals.

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