John Wesley Longyear was a United States representative from Michigan and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Judicial portrait of Longyear, 1875, by Lewis T. Ives.
Mason is the county seat of Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,252 at the 2010 census. Mason was named after Stevens T. Mason, the state's first governor.
Downtown Mason from Town Square
A part of the Mason Esker
Ingham County Courthouse