EDWARD DORAN MASON.

 

 

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POSSIBLY NAMED AFTER EDWARD DORAN.

 

 

Edward Doran Mason was possibly named after “our” Edward Doran.  He was born 1814 in Ireland, and died 26 Jun 1876, in Passumpsic, Vermont.  He is buried in Passumpsic.

 

He married Betsey Ide, and they had four children.  Their son, Edward Doran Mason Jr., was born 26 Dec 1846, in Passumpsic – he became a minister in Massachusetts.

 

Our reason for believing in a possible relation between this Edward and “ours” is in Aunt Lena’s notes.  In the 1850s, Edward’s children were spreading out across America, and wrote several letters to each other.  Aunt Lena kept a list of letters received by her grandfather, William.  The letters have been lost, but the list survives.  One entry is a letter from Uncle Thomas, written from Passumpsic.  Perhaps, on his way to Illinois where he settled, Thomas passed through Passumpsic to visit Edward Doran Mason?  Later in her life, Aunt Lena was a teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy, literally one village above Passumpsic.  All of these coincidences make one believe that Mason must be either somehow related to, or named after, “our” Edward.

 

 

Would anyone with further information on Edward Doran Mason, especially who his parents were, please contact the author of this site, S. L. Doran, at LexHistory  ( at )  gmail  ( dot )  com.

 

 

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