CHARLES MASON
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Mason historically is a bit of a celebrity. Confederate Commanding General Robert E. Lee graduated 2nd in his class at West Point. The man who beat him was Charles Mason who was a military engineer and left the military and became a patent attorney.
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Charles Mason was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason–Dixon line, which came to mark the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania (1764–1768). The border between Delaware and Maryland is also defined by a part of the Mason–Dixon line.
