Case-G

Roderick W. Mason, son of U.S. Representative William E. Mason, was born in in Chicago.  He served as a Lieutenant in the 132nd Infantry during World War I in 1917.  Letters home, using this notebook, discussed his injury from a fall and exposure to mustard gas.  He wrote often but described little of his bravery in the face of danger. By December 1918, he caught the 1918 flu epidemic, which killed over 21 million people globally, and he returned to America.  He married in 1922 and devoted his life to working as a survey analysist in Chicago. The map of Paris, France and the dog tags are mementos he kept of his time in the war.  

Case G – Picture Board – portrait (5x7)

Left, Roderick Mason at Culver Military Academy.  Below, Phi Alpha Sigma invite for commencement exercises.  Center, Roderick Mason surveying in the wilderness.  Top right, Mason in his WWI Lieutenant  uniform.  Bottom, Mason in the light-colored suit with his brother Lowell Mason in a bow tie. 

Chicago’s Humble Man

Gifted by Grace M. Mason and Lowell B. Mason

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