Ester P. Vail

Family/Spouse: Mortimer Mason. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

James S. Mason, "Spafford, was born Feb. 9, 1852, in Spafford, a son of Mortimer and Esther P. (Vail) Mason, he born in Cheshire, Mass., a son of Hiram Mason...The father of our subject came to Spafford when young, and was a teacher for a number of years. He was also prominent in local politics. His wife died June 1, 1894, and he now resides in Skaneateles. Our subject was reared on a farm, educated in Skaneateles and in the Munro Collegiate Institute, and followed teaching for some time. He is also a surveyor, and has some business in the county, but is chiefly occupied in general farming, owning a place of 104 acres. Mr. Mason is now serving his second term as assessor. He is a member of Borodino Grange. In 1883 he married Emma L., daughter of John and Emeline (Kinyon) Burns, the father having come to Marcellus with his father, Eleazer Burns, about 1801. Mr. Burns was one of the leading men of his town, an active politician, and for many years a justice of the peace. He died in 1858 and his wife in 1857.
(Bruce, Dwight H. (Ed.), Onondaga's Centennial. Boston History Co., 1896, Vol.II, p. 245.)

James married Emma L. Burns on 24 May 1883 in Thorn Hill, Onondaga County, New York. Emma (daughter of John Burns and Emeline Kinyon) was born in ca 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]