Author: R. Paul Mason

Paul Mason was born and largely educated in England before going to the University of Toronto for graduate work and then moving to Buffalo, NY. He is retired from a wide-ranging career as an aeronautical engineer, transportation researcher, college professor (at Union College, Schenectady, NY), programmer and IT Director at a large consulting firm in Boston, and an executive at IDC (the world’s largest market research firm in the IT industry). In this last job, he performed consulting work and gave speeches around the world for large IT vendors such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. Current interests are writing and travel.

People Posted on April 27, 2017May 1, 2017

Neglected Histories: The Cruger Family and the Roots of American Independence

One of history’s little mysteries is why some people become famous and others of similar, or even greater, accomplishment do not. Among those overlooked is the Cruger family of New York, which gave us two Mayors of New York City (one of whom was the host for the Stamp Act Congress), early New York’s most […]

by R. Paul Mason