Marriage and Children
Mason married Eliza Margaretta Chew (1798–1874) on 25 July 1822 at Cliveden in Germantown, Pennsylvania. The couple had eight children:
- Anna Maria Mason Ambler (31 January 1825–17 August 1863)
- Benjamin Chew Mason (1826–1847)
- Catharine Chew Mason Dorsey (24 March 1828–28 April 1893)
- George Mason (16 April 1830–3 February 1895)
- Virginia Mason (12 December 1833–11 October 1920)
- Eliza Ida Oswald Mason (10 August 1836–16 December 1885)
- James Murray Mason, Jr. (24 August 1839–10 January 1923)
- John A. Mason (17 November 1841–6 June 1925)
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Famous quotes containing the words marriage and/or children:
“For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.... Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another—cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)