John developed in 1858 the metal screw-on lid used on jars for caning fruits and vegetables. These jars would be known as "Mason Jars".[1]
That same year he also created the screw-on salt shaker.
He married and had six daughters. There is the suggestion that he had an illegitimate son, John Pearl Mason Deshong.
John died on Feb 26, 1902 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Manhattan, New York, New York [2][3]
Sources
↑ Ancestry.com. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
Original data: United States Patent and Trademark Office. USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database. < http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html > accessed January 2008.roll: 31082_18731374
↑ "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WXD-MPM : 10 February 2018), John L. Mason, 26 Feb 1902; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,004.
↑ Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Ancestry.com. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. United States Patent and Trademark Office. USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database. < http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html > accessed January 2008.roll: 31082_185717.
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 June 2019), memorial page for John Landis Mason (Sep 1831–26 Feb 1902), Find A Grave: Memorial #199302433, citing The Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA ; Maintained by T. M. Wallner (contributor 49663341) .
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