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Mason, John (Becher)
Mason, John [Becher] (1857–1919), actor. Born in Orange, New Jersey, he was scion to a musical family and the grandson of Lowell Mason, who wrote “Nearer My God to Thee.” He made his acting debut in 1878, apprenticed at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre and the Boston Museum, then in 1886 played Laertes to Edwin Booth's Hamlet. Mason joined Daniel Frohman's company in 1900 then scored some of his greatest successes playing opposite Mrs. Fiske, including Lovberg in Hedda Gabler (1904), Paul Sylvaine in Leah Kleschna (1904), and John Karslake in The New York Idea (1906). In 1907 he won high praise as Jack Brookfield, who uses the powers of the occult to clear a man wrongly charged with murder, in The Witching Hour. Of his performance as the sympathetic Jewish physician Dr. Seelig in As a Man Thinks (1911), Walter Prichard Eaton wrote, “Mr. Mason has the power of clearcut, fine and sincere speech. . . . With his long and sound training behind him, he projects the ideal of a character worth knowing and listening to.” Turning villain, he portrayed the lustful Baron Stephen Audrey in The Yellow Ticket (1914). His last memorable role was Judge Filson in Common Clay (1915). George Arliss, who frequently played opposite the paternally dignified actor, remarked after his death, “John Mason would, in my opinion, have been the greatest actor in America if his private character had been as well balanced as his public performance. He had personality, great ability, and a magnificent voice. But he had no control over the frailties of his nature.”
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Mason, John (Becher)." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Mason, John (Becher)." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MasonJohnBecher.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Mason, John (Becher)." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MasonJohnBecher.html |
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John Mason
John Mason 1586–1635, founder of New Hampshire , b. England. After serving (1615–21) as governor of Newfoundland, he and Sir Ferdinando Gorges received (1622) a patent from the Council for New England for all the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers. In 1629 they divided the grant, Mason taking as his share an area 60 mi (95 km) deep between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers, which he named New Hampshire. This grant was confirmed to him when the Council for New England surrendered its charter in 1635. Attempts by his heirs to make good their claims to this land led to long litigation. The inhabitants were finally compelled to recognize the Mason rights, which were sold (1746) by one of Mason's descendants to a group of 12 Portsmouth men, who became known as the Masonian Proprietors. They issued settlement permits and land titles in the undeveloped parts of Mason's grant. The grant was redefined by the state in 1788.
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"John Mason." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "John Mason." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-MasonJ-NH.html "John Mason." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-MasonJ-NH.html |
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John Mason
John Mason c.1600–1672, American colonial military commander, b. England. He was an army officer before emigrating (c.1630) to Massachusetts and then (1635) to Windsor, Conn. When the Pequot threatened to wipe out the new colonies on the Connecticut River, he and John Underhill led an expedition (1637) against them with the aid of other Native Americans under Uncas and Miantonomo and virtually destroyed the tribe. After this campaign—generally called the Pequot War—Major Mason was a distinguished political leader in Connecticut until his death.
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"John Mason." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "John Mason." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-MasonJon.html "John Mason." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-MasonJon.html |
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Mason, John
Mason, John (c. 1600–72) born in England, commander of the Connecticut forces in the Pequot War (1636–37), a series of clashes between colonial settlers and local Indians. In an 1637 retaliatory attack, Mason's combined force of Connecticut and Massachusetts militia and other Indian tribes set upon a Pequot village, taking it by surprise and burning it and its inhabitants to the ground, killing any that managed to escape the flames. Mason who himself wrote the history of the encounter on the basis of which later historians condemn his cruelty.
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"Mason, John." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Mason, John." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-MasonJohn.html "Mason, John." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-MasonJohn.html |
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Mason, John
Mason, John (c.1600–72),arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (c. 1630), where he became the military hero of the Pequot War and later commander in chief of the colony and holder of various offices. From memory he wrote a simple, honest, and blunt account of the war, originally published in Increase Mather's A Relation of the Troubles Which Have Hapned in New‐England … (1677) and erroneously attributed to John Allyn. The work was edited by Thomas Prince as A Brief History of the Pequot War (1736).
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Mason, John." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Mason, John." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-MasonJohn.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Mason, John." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-MasonJohn.html |
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