Charles Mason, Jr.

Charles Mason rowed the coxed four at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, sitting in the second seat. He prepped at St. Mark’s School and then attended Harvard, graduating in 1930. After college Mason became an investment banker. He started with Merchants National Bank and then worked at M. C. Wainwright and eventually at White Weld & Co.

Mason was a collector of 19th century lithographs of rural and industrial New England. He became the honorary curator of prints for the Boston Athenaeum. He also was a board member of the Trustees of Reservations, helping to preserve World’s End, the Olmsted-designed Peninsula Park in Hingham and the Cape Pogue reservation on Martha’s Vineyard.