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MASON, George Champlin, author, born in Newport, Rhode Island, 17 July, 1820. He is a great-nephew of Christopher Grant Champlin (q. v.). He was educated at Newport, and has followed the profession of an architect, chiefly in that city. He has been for thirty years a director of the Redwood library in Newport, and a trustee of the Newport hospital from its foundation in 1873. Besides editing the Newport "Mercury" from 1.851 till 1858 and otherwise contributing to the press, Mr. Mason has published "Newport and its Environs" (Newport, 1848); "Newport Illustrated" (New York, 1854); "The Application of Art to Manufactures" and "George Ready," a story (185S) ; "Reunion of Sons and Daughters of Newport" (Newport, 1859) ; "Newport and its Cottages" (Boston, 1875); "The Old House Altered" (New York, 1878); "The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart" (1879); and "Reminiscences of Newport" (Newport, 1884).
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