Hawthorne, Julian, Ed.  History of Washington the Evergreen State: From Early
Dawn to Daylight.  Vol. 1.  New York: American Historical Publishing Co., 1893.
p. 642.

MARTIN MASON

	Mason, Martin, farmer and stockman, of Kittias Valley, Wash., was born in
New York in 1848.  His father, born in 1825, and his mother, in 1824, were also
natives of the Empire State.  The family removed to Michigan, where the father
engaged in lumbering in 1862.  He was a soldier of the Civil War, having
enlisted in a MIchigan regiment.  He returned to his farm after the war, and
removed to Washington in 1875, where he now lives.  The subject of our sketch is
the eldest of three children.  He received his early education in Michigan and
began life.  Coming to Washington in 1886 he purchased one hundred and sixty
acres of fine land two and a half miles west of Ellensburg, but followed
lumbering for the first two years.  He was first married in Michigan in 1869, to
Miss Anna Silsby, who was born in Michigan in 1854, and died in 1889, leaving
two children.  In 1890 Mr. Mason married Mrs. Mary Harrison, a widow, who was
born in New York in 1848.  Mr. Mason is much interested in the breeding of fine
stock, making a specialty of Durham cattle, Hamilton horses, etc.