History of Sullivan, (Cheshire County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Rufus Osgood Mason, physician and author, was born in Sullivan, N.H., Jan. 22, 1830; son of Rufus and Prudence (Woods) Mason; grandson of Bela and Sally (Norcross) Mason, and a descendant in the seventh generation from Capt. Hugh and Heater Mason, who sailed from Ipswich, England, in April, 1634, and settled in Watertown, Mass., where Capt. Hugh was selectman, deputy to the general assembly, member of the council of war, and captain of militia, which he led against the Manhattoes in 1664, and in the Sudbury fight in King Philip's war. Rufus Osgood Mason was prepared for college at Thetford, Vt., academy; was graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1854, A.M., 1868, and studied at Union Theological seminary, 1854-55. He was graduated M.D. (valedictorian) from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, 1859; was acting assistant surgeon, U.S.N., on board the steamer Santiago de Cuba, 1861-64; took up the practice of medicine in New York city in 1864, and was attending physician, Northwestern dispensary, 1864-69. He was married, July 3, 1871, to Marian Isabel Goodwin of New York city, and secondly to Charlotte Van der Veer Quick of Princeton, N.J. He was elected a member of the New York County Medical society in 1877; of the Academy of Medicine, New York, 1889, and of the Society for Psychical Research, 1891. He is the author of: books?Sketches and Impressions (1887); Telepathy and the Sublimenal Self (1897); Hypnotism and Suggestion in Therapeutics, Education and Reform (1901); pamphlets?Duplex Personality, its Relation to Hypnotism and to Lucidity (1895); Educational Uses of Hypnotism (1896); Alternating Personalities, their Origin and Medico-Legal Aspect (1896); The New Therapeutics (1899), and contributions to various periodicals. He died in New York city, May 11, 1903.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Sullivan, (Cheshire County) New Hampshire

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