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Mason, Charles A., 1851-1930

 Person

Biography

Charles Albert Mason was an American civil engineer and surveyor. He was born to William Albert Mason (1816-1882) and Clara Maria (Hodges) Mason on October 27, 1851 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended the Webster and Shepard schools in Cambridge, MA, and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, MA in 1871. Mason began working with his father in 1860; became an assistant in his father's firm in 1870; was made partner in the firm in 1876; and assumed full ownership in 1882 after his father's death. He conducted public land surveys in Brighton, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, and Watertown, MA, and also did the ground work for most of the Harvard University dormitories built in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Charles Albert Mason retired in 1929, and died December 31, 1930 in Cambridge, MA.

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Dana F. Perkins, Inc. surveying records

 Collection
Call Number: MS.LMEC.0006
Scope and Contents The Dana F. Perkins, Inc. surveying records consists of surveys, notebooks, and ancillary surveying documents from firms and individual surveyors acquired by the company, as well as some surveys created by Dana F. Perkins, Inc. The majority of items were created by W.A. Mason & Son, with the next largest group of items created by Fuller & Whitney (later William H. Whitney). Other surveyors with a significant number of materials are Charles D. Elliot, Dana E. Perkins, and Dana F....
Dates: 1817 - 1965
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / Dana F. Perkins, Inc. surveying records