LONG, MASON: 1842-1903.
Mason Long was born in Luray, Licking County, O., on Sept. 10, 1842. He was left an orphan at ten and was brought up by a German farmer in Medina County, O. He enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and served until the end of the Civil War.
In 1865 he moved to Fort Wayne, Ind. For fifteen years he was a professional gambler and a drunkard. Becoming repentant, he joined the Baptist Church, tried to lead a model life and became a professional reformer. One of his books describes his gambling and drinking career and his subsequent reform.
Long was married in 1880 to Kitty Sarah Henderson of Fort Wayne. He died in Fort Wayne in Nov., 1903.
Information from The Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana .
- The Life of Mason Long, the Converted Gambler.
Chicago, 1878.
- Fallen Women. Fort Wayne, 1880.
- Save The Girls. Fort Wayne,
1883.
