Background
Mason, Walt was born on May 4, 1862 in Columbus, Ontario. Son of John and Lydia Sarah (Campbell) Mason.
Mason, Walt was born on May 4, 1862 in Columbus, Ontario. Son of John and Lydia Sarah (Campbell) Mason.
Self-educated; came to the United States, 1880.
Connected with Atchison Globe, 1885-1887, later with Lincoln (Nebraska) State Journal and other papers. Editorial paragrapher Evening News, Washington, 1893. Associate with William Allen White on Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, since 1907.
Prose poems are public daily in more than 200 newspapers in the United States and Canada Author: Uncle Walt, 1910.
Married Ella Foos, of Wooster, O., February 15, 1893.