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Show English Philanthropist Between 1S."8 and lSllS Josiah Mason Ma-son built up a great orphanage at Erdington. England, at a cost of about $1,000,000. For this he was knighted in 1ST2. He was horn at Kidderminster Kidder-minster in 179.", began selling cakes on the street at the age of eight and later taught himself to read and write while serving as a shoemaker's apprentice. ap-prentice. Finally lie became a manufacturer manu-facturer of steel pens nnd built up an enormous business. He added to his fortune by geld and silver plating and copper and nickel smelting. He gave Si.'W' to Mason's college, now a part of the University of Birmingham. |