See also:

• MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
• MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
• MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
• MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
• MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
• MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
• MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
• MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
• MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
• MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)

MASON See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

CITY  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Cerro Gordo county, See also:

• IOWA

Iowa, U.S.A., on See also:

• LIME
• LIME (O. Eng. lim, Lat. limes, mud, from linere, to smear)

Lime See also:

• CREEK
• CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)

Creek, in the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state . Pop . (1905, state See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census), 8357 (929 See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 11,230 . It is served by the See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago See also:

• MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee & St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul, the Chicago & See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North-Western, the Chicago See also:

• GREAT

Great Western, the Iowa Central and the St Paul & See also:

• DES

Des Moines See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, and also by the See also:

• MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
• MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
• MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
• MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
• MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
• MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
• MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
• MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
• MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
• MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)

Mason City & Clear See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake (electric) railway, which connects Mason City with Clear Lake, a See also:

• PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure resort, ro m. See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of the city . At Mason City is Memorial University (co-educational; founded in 1900 by the See also:

• NATIONAL

National Encampment of the Sons of Veterans, and opened in 1902), dedicated to the See also:

• GRAND

Grand See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

Army of the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic, the See also:

• SPECIAL

special aim of which is to See also:

• TEACH [THATCH OR THACH], EDWARD (d. 1718)

teach See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• HISTORY

history . The city is situated in a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good agricultural region, and there are valuable See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone quarries in the vicinity . The manufactures include lime, See also:

• PORTLAND
• PORTLAND, EARL OF
• PORTLAND, ISLE OF
• PORTLAND, WILLIAM BENTINCK, EARL
• PORTLAND, WILLIAM HENRY CAVENDISH BENTINCK

Portland See also:

• CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement, See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick and See also:

• TILE (0. Eng. tigel, Fr. tuile, connected with Lat. tegula)

tile . Mason City was settled in 1853, laid out in 1855, incorporated as a See also:

• TOWN

town in 1870 and chartered as a city in 1881 .