Young, John Mason.

John Mason Young was born in Lewisberg, Tennessee, in 1874. He entered the ancestor institution of the University of Florida in 1896 and graduated with a B.S. degree in 1898. After service in the Spanish American War, he taught engineering and physics, and then entered Cornell University from which he received two masters degrees in engineering in 1902 and 1904. He worked on drawings for various railroad facilities in New York, Ohio, and unidentified locations. In 1908, he became professor of engineering and college engineer at the College of Hawaii, which later become the University of Hawaii. He began Pacific Engineering Company the same year. Young retired from the University in 1940, the last of the original thirteen faculty members. He died in 1949 and Pacific Engineering was dissolved upon his death.