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���W. H. H. MASON, M. D.

��BY H. H. METCALF.

��There is no more valuable member of any community than the intelligent and devoted physician. If to the faithful discharge of all the delicate and laborious duties of his profession, and the constant thought and study which enables him to keep fully abreast with the progress of medical science, the physician also develops and main- tains an interest in matters pertaining to the material prosperity of the com- munity and of the people at large, and in the direction of public affairs, he establishes for himself a two-fold title to the respect and esteem of his fel- low-men. Such men there are among the members of the medical profession in this state, and prominent among the number is the subject of this sketch.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON MASON

was born in the town of Gilford, De- cember 14, 181 7, being now in the

��sixty-fifth year of his age. He was one of the thirteen children (six sons and seven daughters) of Capt. Lemuel B. and Mary (Chamberlain) Mason, all of whom lived to the average age and reared families, but two only sur- viving at the present time — William H. H., and Benjamin M. Mason, the latter a well-known farmer and promi- nent citizen of Moultonborough. The father, Lemuel B. Mason, was a gallant soldier in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War. He was born in the town of Durham, in February, 1759, and, although but sixteen years of age at the outbreak of the revolu- tion, joined the army immediately after the battle of Bunker Hill, the sound of cannon from that battle-field, which he distinctly heard at his home in Durham, impelling him to the prompt execution of his already well- defined purpose to that end. He

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