Howard F Mason

Howard F. Mason was born on 29 October 1901 at Marion, Indiana. In 1927 he served as a radio operator with the Detroit News Wilkins Expedition to the Arctic, operating a station from Barrow, Alaska. He was working at the lighthouse depot on Staten Island, New York, when he joined the United States Antarctic Expedition, 1928-1930 (leader Richard Evelyn Byrd), as a radio operator. After the expedition, he worked for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington. He died on 26 June 1996 at Seattle, Washington.

From the guide to the Howard Mason collection, 1929, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)