Michigan historical collections . r distinguished years, and to wish heras many more. She was handsomely remembered by friends with beau-tiful gifts. Miss Mason is a member of a prominent family of the Old is a daughter of the late General John Thomson Mason, of Leesburg, Loudoun county, Va., where she was born. At the outbreak ofthe civil war she was a grown woman, and was of great service to theconfederacy. She w^as the first one to found any hospitals, and activelyengaged in the work of attending the wounded and caring for them. President Davis gave into her hands all authority
Michigan historical collections . r distinguished years, and to wish heras many more. She was handsomely remembered by friends with beau-tiful gifts. Miss Mason is a member of a prominent family of the Old is a daughter of the late General John Thomson Mason, of Leesburg, Loudoun county, Va., where she was born. At the outbreak ofthe civil war she was a grown woman, and was of great service to theconfederacy. She w^as the first one to found any hospitals, and activelyengaged in the work of attending the wounded and caring for them. President Davis gave into her hands all authority for organizing thehospital work, and she established many hospitals. At the close ofthe war she wrote the first life of Lee published, and was theeditor of The Southern Poems of the War,- and one or two otherworks. For fourteen years she lived in France, where she was interestedin educational circles, and returned to America three years ago, andtook up her residence in Georgetown. ^The Washington Pest, Tuesday, October 17, V. B. LOOMIS, JACKSON. PETER B. LOOMIS. 611 PETEK B. LOOMIS. BY EDA\ARD W. BARBER. Hon. Peter B. Loomis was born in Amsterdam, New York, April 14,1820, and passed from earth at his home in the city of Jackson, Michi-gan, December 30, 1905, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. For alonger period than any other of its prominent citizens he was intimatelyidentified Avith the history, growth and progress of the city which forsixty-two years had been his home, and in the w^elfare of which he tooka laudable civic pride. Among those who were the makers of Jacksonlie was an acknowledged leader. It is a notable fact that most of themen to whom this city owes its largest debt of gratitude were from theState of New York. From the Empire State came its first settler,Horace Blackmau, in 1829, and later nearly all the men who took thelead in railroad building and were instrumental in the construction ofthe various lines that were built, after the Michigan Central w
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