Walt Mason

(1862-1939) lived in Beatrice and Lincoln. Journalist, poet, humorist, known for publishing verses under the heading "Uncle Walt" while at the Emporia /KS/ Gazette from 1907 to 1920 that appeared in more than two hundred newspapers that had a combined daily circulation of five million, previously worked for newspapers at Atchison, Kansas, Beatrice and Lincoln, Nebraska, and Washington, DC; published seven books, almost all collections of his verses. Consult New York Times obituary, June 23, 1939, p. 19 and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 2 (1958) 435-456 and American National Biography, Vol 14 (1999) 664-666.

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