Mason Saxon Wilson was the son of Stephen Wilson and Anna Cogswell.
Mason moved to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, a few miles south of Montrose (then a wilderness). He is known to be one of the first settlers of this area.
His biography-found in Rhamanthus M. Stocker, History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania--Centennial, R. T. Peck and Co. Philadelphia 1887, pg 279, 974.834 H2s.
Mason Saxon Wilson is well entitled to especial notice in this volume by reason of his long-continued career as a merchant at Montrose, his constancy in the support of its varied enterprises, charities and religious institutions, his correct habits, Christian example and high moral sentiment; and because he has continued to the great age of nearly four-score and nine years well preserved in mind and able to transact his own business.
He has never sought political preferment; neither has he shrunk from responsibility and trust when placed upon him by his fellow-townsmen. For a half-century Mr. Wilson was engaged in mercantile pursuits here, and in the early times when there were no railroads or canals, or means of transportation of merchandise, he recites the long and tedious way in which his goods were conveyed from New York to this place; which, after being run up the Hudson in sloops to Newburg, were thence carted by way of the Newburg turnpike the entire distance of one hundred and ten miles, sometimes taking many days for the accomplishment of the journey. This state of things existed until the completion of parts of the Erie Railway, when goods were shipped from New York by that road to its terminus, and thence by the way of Port Jervis or Great Bend to Montrose.
He came to Bridgewater township with his parents in 1799, then an infant of nine months, who settled just outside and south of the borough of Montrose. His parents had come from Burlington, Otsego Co., New York, where he was born June 28, 1798, and located in this then wilderness place, having no nearer neighbors than five miles to the west at Fairvale, on Wyalusing Creek, and about the same distance to the east, in what is now Brooklyn Township. The log house occupied by the family had been erected by his father, Stephen Wilson, who had visited the place in the fall of 1798 in company with Samuel Wilson, his brother, and Samuel Cogswell, brother of his wife, Anna Cogswell. Here his boyhood was spent until the age of sixteen, when he became a clerk in the store of Isaac Post at Montrose, and continued with him until he reached his majority.
At the age of twenty two a lingering illness compelled him to return to his home, where he remained for three years. Returning to Montrose, he became the partner of Mr. Post in 1825, and in 1828 with his eldest son, William Post, and continued his business relation with the firm until 1835, when he established mercantile business on his own account, which he continued until his retirement from active business, in 1865.
He was director and one of the founders of the Susquehanna County Bank, treasurer for many years of the old Montrose Academy, and one of its board of trustees; and he was also chosen frequently as assessor.
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Mason married Mary Halsey Sayre on 25 Aug 1825 in Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of the following children.
Saxon Mason Wilson 1826–1904
Fanny Mulford Wilson 1828–1851
Mary Sayre Wilson 1830–1909
Eliza C. Wilson 1838–1840
Adelia Wilson 1841–1841
After the death of his first wife Mary in 1873, he married secondly, the widow Eliza (Halsey) Mitchell (1812–1885) in about 1873.
Mason moved to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, a few miles south of Montrose (then a wilderness). He is known to be one of the first settlers of this area.
His biography-found in Rhamanthus M. Stocker, History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania--Centennial, R. T. Peck and Co. Philadelphia 1887, pg 279, 974.834 H2s.
Mason Saxon Wilson is well entitled to especial notice in this volume by reason of his long-continued career as a merchant at Montrose, his constancy in the support of its varied enterprises, charities and religious institutions, his correct habits, Christian example and high moral sentiment; and because he has continued to the great age of nearly four-score and nine years well preserved in mind and able to transact his own business.
He has never sought political preferment; neither has he shrunk from responsibility and trust when placed upon him by his fellow-townsmen. For a half-century Mr. Wilson was engaged in mercantile pursuits here, and in the early times when there were no railroads or canals, or means of transportation of merchandise, he recites the long and tedious way in which his goods were conveyed from New York to this place; which, after being run up the Hudson in sloops to Newburg, were thence carted by way of the Newburg turnpike the entire distance of one hundred and ten miles, sometimes taking many days for the accomplishment of the journey. This state of things existed until the completion of parts of the Erie Railway, when goods were shipped from New York by that road to its terminus, and thence by the way of Port Jervis or Great Bend to Montrose.
He came to Bridgewater township with his parents in 1799, then an infant of nine months, who settled just outside and south of the borough of Montrose. His parents had come from Burlington, Otsego Co., New York, where he was born June 28, 1798, and located in this then wilderness place, having no nearer neighbors than five miles to the west at Fairvale, on Wyalusing Creek, and about the same distance to the east, in what is now Brooklyn Township. The log house occupied by the family had been erected by his father, Stephen Wilson, who had visited the place in the fall of 1798 in company with Samuel Wilson, his brother, and Samuel Cogswell, brother of his wife, Anna Cogswell. Here his boyhood was spent until the age of sixteen, when he became a clerk in the store of Isaac Post at Montrose, and continued with him until he reached his majority.
At the age of twenty two a lingering illness compelled him to return to his home, where he remained for three years. Returning to Montrose, he became the partner of Mr. Post in 1825, and in 1828 with his eldest son, William Post, and continued his business relation with the firm until 1835, when he established mercantile business on his own account, which he continued until his retirement from active business, in 1865.
He was director and one of the founders of the Susquehanna County Bank, treasurer for many years of the old Montrose Academy, and one of its board of trustees; and he was also chosen frequently as assessor.
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Mason married Mary Halsey Sayre on 25 Aug 1825 in Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of the following children.
Saxon Mason Wilson 1826–1904
Fanny Mulford Wilson 1828–1851
Mary Sayre Wilson 1830–1909
Eliza C. Wilson 1838–1840
Adelia Wilson 1841–1841
After the death of his first wife Mary in 1873, he married secondly, the widow Eliza (Halsey) Mitchell (1812–1885) in about 1873.
Mason Saxon Wilson was the son of Stephen Wilson and Anna Cogswell.
Mason moved to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, a few miles south of Montrose (then a wilderness). He is known to be one of the first settlers of this area.
His biography-found in Rhamanthus M. Stocker, History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania--Centennial, R. T. Peck and Co. Philadelphia 1887, pg 279, 974.834 H2s.
Mason Saxon Wilson is well entitled to especial notice in this volume by reason of his long-continued career as a merchant at Montrose, his constancy in the support of its varied enterprises, charities and religious institutions, his correct habits, Christian example and high moral sentiment; and because he has continued to the great age of nearly four-score and nine years well preserved in mind and able to transact his own business.
He has never sought political preferment; neither has he shrunk from responsibility and trust when placed upon him by his fellow-townsmen. For a half-century Mr. Wilson was engaged in mercantile pursuits here, and in the early times when there were no railroads or canals, or means of transportation of merchandise, he recites the long and tedious way in which his goods were conveyed from New York to this place; which, after being run up the Hudson in sloops to Newburg, were thence carted by way of the Newburg turnpike the entire distance of one hundred and ten miles, sometimes taking many days for the accomplishment of the journey. This state of things existed until the completion of parts of the Erie Railway, when goods were shipped from New York by that road to its terminus, and thence by the way of Port Jervis or Great Bend to Montrose.
He came to Bridgewater township with his parents in 1799, then an infant of nine months, who settled just outside and south of the borough of Montrose. His parents had come from Burlington, Otsego Co., New York, where he was born June 28, 1798, and located in this then wilderness place, having no nearer neighbors than five miles to the west at Fairvale, on Wyalusing Creek, and about the same distance to the east, in what is now Brooklyn Township. The log house occupied by the family had been erected by his father, Stephen Wilson, who had visited the place in the fall of 1798 in company with Samuel Wilson, his brother, and Samuel Cogswell, brother of his wife, Anna Cogswell. Here his boyhood was spent until the age of sixteen, when he became a clerk in the store of Isaac Post at Montrose, and continued with him until he reached his majority.
At the age of twenty two a lingering illness compelled him to return to his home, where he remained for three years. Returning to Montrose, he became the partner of Mr. Post in 1825, and in 1828 with his eldest son, William Post, and continued his business relation with the firm until 1835, when he established mercantile business on his own account, which he continued until his retirement from active business, in 1865.
He was director and one of the founders of the Susquehanna County Bank, treasurer for many years of the old Montrose Academy, and one of its board of trustees; and he was also chosen frequently as assessor.
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Mason married Mary Halsey Sayre on 25 Aug 1825 in Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of the following children.
Saxon Mason Wilson 1826–1904
Fanny Mulford Wilson 1828–1851
Mary Sayre Wilson 1830–1909
Eliza C. Wilson 1838–1840
Adelia Wilson 1841–1841
After the death of his first wife Mary in 1873, he married secondly, the widow Eliza (Halsey) Mitchell (1812–1885) in about 1873.
Mason moved to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, a few miles south of Montrose (then a wilderness). He is known to be one of the first settlers of this area.
His biography-found in Rhamanthus M. Stocker, History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania--Centennial, R. T. Peck and Co. Philadelphia 1887, pg 279, 974.834 H2s.
Mason Saxon Wilson is well entitled to especial notice in this volume by reason of his long-continued career as a merchant at Montrose, his constancy in the support of its varied enterprises, charities and religious institutions, his correct habits, Christian example and high moral sentiment; and because he has continued to the great age of nearly four-score and nine years well preserved in mind and able to transact his own business.
He has never sought political preferment; neither has he shrunk from responsibility and trust when placed upon him by his fellow-townsmen. For a half-century Mr. Wilson was engaged in mercantile pursuits here, and in the early times when there were no railroads or canals, or means of transportation of merchandise, he recites the long and tedious way in which his goods were conveyed from New York to this place; which, after being run up the Hudson in sloops to Newburg, were thence carted by way of the Newburg turnpike the entire distance of one hundred and ten miles, sometimes taking many days for the accomplishment of the journey. This state of things existed until the completion of parts of the Erie Railway, when goods were shipped from New York by that road to its terminus, and thence by the way of Port Jervis or Great Bend to Montrose.
He came to Bridgewater township with his parents in 1799, then an infant of nine months, who settled just outside and south of the borough of Montrose. His parents had come from Burlington, Otsego Co., New York, where he was born June 28, 1798, and located in this then wilderness place, having no nearer neighbors than five miles to the west at Fairvale, on Wyalusing Creek, and about the same distance to the east, in what is now Brooklyn Township. The log house occupied by the family had been erected by his father, Stephen Wilson, who had visited the place in the fall of 1798 in company with Samuel Wilson, his brother, and Samuel Cogswell, brother of his wife, Anna Cogswell. Here his boyhood was spent until the age of sixteen, when he became a clerk in the store of Isaac Post at Montrose, and continued with him until he reached his majority.
At the age of twenty two a lingering illness compelled him to return to his home, where he remained for three years. Returning to Montrose, he became the partner of Mr. Post in 1825, and in 1828 with his eldest son, William Post, and continued his business relation with the firm until 1835, when he established mercantile business on his own account, which he continued until his retirement from active business, in 1865.
He was director and one of the founders of the Susquehanna County Bank, treasurer for many years of the old Montrose Academy, and one of its board of trustees; and he was also chosen frequently as assessor.
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Mason married Mary Halsey Sayre on 25 Aug 1825 in Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of the following children.
Saxon Mason Wilson 1826–1904
Fanny Mulford Wilson 1828–1851
Mary Sayre Wilson 1830–1909
Eliza C. Wilson 1838–1840
Adelia Wilson 1841–1841
After the death of his first wife Mary in 1873, he married secondly, the widow Eliza (Halsey) Mitchell (1812–1885) in about 1873.
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