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

T. A. MASON, dealer in lumber, manufacturer of sash, doors and blinds, proprietor of the 
Stone City Planing-Mill, Joliet; was born in New Hartford, Oneida Co., N. Y., March 14, 
1846; he is a son of Daniel C. MASON, an extensive, railroad contractor; his grandfather, 
Arnold MASON, was one of the original contractors of the Croton Water Works in New York 
City; Mr. MASON first came to Illinois in the spring of 1867; after spending a few months 
in Chicago, he returned East, and engaged in the blank-book and stationery business in 
Utica; in 1870, he came to Joliet, and, with F, W. and H. B. PLANT, erected the Stone 
City Planing-Mill, and engaged in the lumber business; he was educated at the Utica High 
School and at Whitestown Seminary, N. Y. He was married Sept. 25, 1872, to Miss Elizabeth 
E. CATON, of Joliet, and has three children - Cornelia Louise, William Caton and Kittie 
Marie. Mr. MASON is at present a member of the Board of Aldermen from the Fourth Ward, 
being elected in April 1877.