Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

E. B. MASON, real estate and loans, Joliet; was born in Ontario Co., N. Y., Nov. 20, 1826; 
in 1834, his father, Hale S. MASON; came with his family to Will Co., and settled in 
Gooding's Grove, in what is, now Homer Twp., he was for a good many years Canal Collector 
of Lockport; for a number of years Justice of the Peace, and is now an honored resident of 
the town of Lockport. Mr. MASON continued farming until the spring of 1854; in the fall of 
that year, he came to Joliet and spent the winter, removing the following spring to La 
Salle, IL, where he resided for fourteen years, during eight of which he served as 
Postmaster of that city; returning to Joliet in 1870, he entered the abstract office of 
George U. WARD, and, in 1875, engaged in his present business; he is Secretary of the 
Peoples' Loan and Homestead Association of Joliet, which was organized in 1874, having 
a capital stock of 5,000 shares of $100 each. He was married in the spring of 1850 to 
Miss Elizabeth C. OLNEY, daughter of Hirani OLNEY, an early settler of Homer Twp.; she 
died in 1858, leaving two children, one of whom, Ella B., wife of Leonard G. WILSON, is 
now living. Mr. MASON was married again in 1864 to Miss Lizzie L. MINER, of Aurora, IL.