Newton E. Mason
Rear Admiral Newton Eliphalet Mason was a United States Navy officer. His career included combat in the SpanishAmerican War and service during World War I, significant experience in ordnance duty, and a very long tour as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance.
Mason was born in Monroeton, Pennsylvania, onOctober 1850, the son of Gordon Fowler Mason and Mary Anne Mason, and was educated at the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute in Tonawanda, Pennsylvania. He entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, onJuly 1865.
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