Melville Davisson Post
Melville Davisson Post (April 19, 1869 – June 23, 1930) was an American author, born in Harrison County, West Virginia.
Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles, many of his collections are still in print, and many collections of detective fiction include works by him.
Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner.
The 22 Uncle Abner tales, written between 1911 and 1928, have been called some of "the finest mysteries ever written".
Post's other recurring characters include the lawyers Randolph Mason and Colonel Braxton, and the detectives Sir Henry Marquis and Monsieur Jonquelle.
His total output was approximately 230 titles, including several non-crime novels.
Silas Owens Sr.
Silas Owens Sr.( born 1907) was a mason and builder in Arkansas.
Lucy Randolph Mason
Lucy Randolph Mason( 26 July 1882 – 6 May 1959) was a 20th- century American labor activist and suffragette.
She was involved in the union movement, the consumer movement and the civil rights movement in the mid-20th century.
William Stanton (mason)
William Stanton( 1639 – 1705) was an English mason and sculptor.
He is known particularly for monumental masonry.
Beverley Randolph Mason
Beverley Randolph Mason( 1 September 1834–22 April 1910) was a renowned educator and founder and principal of the Gunston Hall School for young women in Washington, D.C. Mason was a great- grandson of George Mason, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights.
Henry Mason (piano manufacturer)
Henry Mason( 1831–1890) was one of the co-founders of the American piano manufacturer Mason and Hamlin.
He was the son of American church music composer Lowell Mason, and the brother of composer William Mason.
Joseph Pope (academic)
Sir Joseph Albert Pope( 18 October 1914 – 24 March 2013) was a British engineer and academic administrator.
He was educated at King's College London( Engineering, 1938).
He was an Assistant Lecturer in Engineering at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Manchester, then Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield from 1945 to 1949 and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nottingham from 1949 to 1960.
He later served as Vice- Chancellor of Aston University from 1969 to 1979.
He was knighted in 1980.
He died on 24 March 2013 at the age of 98.
Pope had a lifetime association with the Whitworth Society acting as President in 1978 after becoming a Scholar in 1935.
Joseph Pope (public servant)
Sir Joseph Pope( August 16, 1854 – December 2, 1926) was a Canadian public servant.
He was Private Secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald from 1882 to 1891 and Assistant Clerk to the Privy Council& Under Secretary of State for Canada from 1896 to 1926.
From 1909 to 1925, he was the first permanent under-secretary of State for External Affairs.
Pope was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George( CMG) during the visit to Canada of TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York( later King George V and Queen Mary) in October 1901.
He was later knighted as a Knight Commander of the same order.
He married Marie- Louise- Joséphine- Henriette( Minette) Taschereau in Rivière- du- Loup, Que. on Oct 15, 1884.
They had five sons and a daughter.
Pope ’s life story was edited and completed by his son Maurice Arthur Pope, and was published as" Public servant: the memoirs of Sir Joseph Pope"( Toronto, 1960).
Sir Joseph tells the story of his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith in" Why I Became a Catholic", published privately in 1921, and republished by Ignatius Press in 2001.
Maurice Arthur Pope
Maurice Arthur Pope,( 9 August 1889 – 20 September 1978) was a Canadian civil engineer, army officer and diplomat.
Born in Rivière- du- Loup, Quebec, the son of Sir Joseph Pope, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's principal secretary, and grandson of Sir Henri- Thomas Taschereau and William Henry Pope, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from McGill University in 1911.
He worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a construction engineer until joining the Royal Canadian Engineers in 1915.
He served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France.
After the war, he remained in the Canadian Army.
During World War II, he was Brigadier General of the Canadian Military headquarters in London, Vice- Chief of the general staff in Ottawa, Chairman of the Canadian Joint Staff Mission in Washington, head of the Censorship Branch and military staff officer to Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
From 1945 to 1950, he was Head of the Canadian Military Mission in Berlin.
He retired with the rank of Lieutenant- General.
From 1950 to 1953, he was the Canadian Ambassador to Belgium.
From 1953 to 1956, he was the Canadian Ambassador to Spain.
He retired in 1956 and lived in Ottawa.
His memoir was entitled" Soldiers and politicians: the memoirs of Lt.- Gen.
Maurice A. Pope C.B., M.C"( University of Toronto Press, 1962).
He also completed and edited his father's autobiography," Public servant: the memoirs of Sir Joseph Pope"( Oxford University Press, 1960).
Joseph Pope Balch
Joseph Pope Balch( August 9, 1822 – December 2, 1872) was an American businessman from Rhode Island who served as an officer in the Union Army during the early months of the American Civil War.

Question: Did Lucy Randolph Mason and Joseph Pope (Academic) have the same nationality?
Answer: no