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September 7. [898, al Saratoga, New
York, Jessie S. Ide, born at Corinth, New
YMik, September io, 1875.
Carlos V. Mason, son of Carlos Luke
and Frances I". (Goodwin) Mason, was
educated in the districl schools of Union-
ville, Connecticut After completing his
schooling he came to Bristol in October,
[883, and engaged in the real estate and
insurance business. He has built up a
large and flourishing trade, and through
his upright methods of doing business
has attained a prominent and enviable
reputation among the leading men of that
town. He has ever taken more than a
passive interest in all matters pertaining
to the general welfare and has served in
many offices. He is treasurer of the
Third School District for the last fifteen
years. In [902 he was elected Repre-
sentative, and served as clerk of the rail-
road committee. Mr. Mason is a director
of the Dunhar Brothers Company, and
fraternally he affiliates with Franklin
Lodge, No. 56, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons; Washington Commandcry.
No. 1. of Hartford: Sphinx Temple,
of Hartford: Stephen Terry Lodge, No.
59, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ;
Knights of Pythias Lodge. No. o: and of
Bristol Lodge. Benevolent and Protective
Order of Flks. He is also a member of
the Bristol Club.
Mr. Mason married. May 3, 1888, at
Bristol, Alice M. Dunhar, born in that
town. April 3. 1868, daughter of Winthrop
W. and Sarah A. (Wheeler') Dun-
bar. Mr. and Mrs. Mason were the par-
ents of three children: 1. Florence F.,
born at Bristol, July 14. 1889, married
Leandcr W. Rockwell, son of Albert F.
Rockwell, of Bristol. 2. Anna D., born
June 1 1, 1893, wife °f Herbert A. Marom,
of Meriden, Connecticut. 3. Carlos H.,
born September 25, 1900.
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FENNER, George Potter,
Mnnnfactnrer, Inventor.
George Potter Fenner was born at Pot-
ter Hill. Rhode Island, June 5. [855, son
of Charles Arnold and Ann Elizabeth
(Babcock) Fenner, and a descendant of
Captain Arthur Fenner, a lieutenant in
Cromwell's army, \sh came from England
in [649 and settled at Providence,
Rhode Island, and whose wife was Mehi-
table (Waterman) Fenner. He was ap-
pointed captain of the King's garrison;
as civil engineer he laid out the bound-
aries of the plantation; was assistant to
the governor by appointment, and was
commissioned to "put in order and have
printed the statutes of the colony."
The line of descent is traced through
their son Major Thomas Fenner, and
his wife, Dinah (Borden) Fenner; their
son, Thomas Fenner, and his wife,
Mary (Abbott) Fenner: their son, Wil-
liam Fenner, and his wife, Christian (Ar-
nold >
Fenner
;
their
son, Stephen Fen-
ner, and his wife, Mary Fenner; to their
son, Philip Arnold Fenner, and his wife,
Sally (Potter) Fenner. who were the
grandparents of George Potter Fenner.
Charles Arnold Fenner, father of George
P. Fenner, was a native of Poland, New
York, and a ship builder of note in Rhode
Island.
George P. Fenner was educated in the
old Hopkinton Academy, Ashaway, Rhode
Island, in public and private schools at
Mystic, Connecticut, and at the Provi-
dence (Rhode Island) Commercial College.
At the age of seventeen he began
his career as a manufacturer of printing
presses in the firm of Cottrell & Babcock,
of Westerly. Rhode Island, Nathan Babcock
of that firm being his uncle. For
eight years he worked in the pattern-shop
and draughting-room, and in 1882 he es-