Frank H. Mason is well known in real estate and insurance circles, being claim adjuster of the Prudential Casualty Company. He is prominent as a citizen of New Haven and is also an officer of the Connecticut Home Guard with the rank of second lieutenant. He was born September 25, 1877, on the old family homestead of James M. Mason, his grandfather. At the same place occurred the birth of his father, Herbert Mason, who was reared and educated in New Haven and became a prominent factor in business circles, especially in the insurance field. He was made secretary of the Security Insurance Company of New Haven and won recognition as one of the best known insurance men of the state. He died in New Haven and his wife also passed away in this city. They were the parents of four children, two of whom died in infancy, the surviving daughter being Miss Helen Newell Mason, of Long Meadow, Massachusetts.
     Frank H. Mason, who was the second in order of birth in that family, attended the Webster and Hopkins grammar schools and afterward pursued a special course in the Yale Law School. When his textbooks were put aside he entered the employ of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company and later was with the F'. C. Bushnell Grocery Company. Still later he followed in his father's business footsteps by entering the insurance field, becoming connected with the Security Insurance Company as local agent, and from a humble position he has worked his way steadily upward in insurance circles until he has developed one of the leading agencies in this section of the state. He is also engaged in the real estate business and has won a large clientage in that connection. In establishing the business Mr. Mason was first associated with Herbert W. Oviatt and organized what later became the Oviatt-Mason Company, the predecessor of the Frank H. Mason Insurance & Real Estate Company. He is now in control of an extensive business that is bringing to him a substantial financial return.
     During the draft Mr. Mason was the deputy registrar of the first ward in New Haven. For a number of years he has been a prominent member of the Connecticut Home Guard.
     On the 26th of October, 1907, Mr. Mason was united in marriage to Miss Grace Sims, of New Haven, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sims. Fraternally Mr. Mason is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while in Masonry he has taken the de-grees of lodge and chapter. He belongs to the Race Brook Country Club and the New Haven Yacht Club and is also identified with other social organizations, his pronounced qualities making for personal popularity wherever he is known. He is a representative of one of the old and prominent families of Connecticut and stands high in public regard. What-ever he undertakes he accomplishes and his work is characterized by thoroughness, and high ideals and standards, and he makes steady advancement.