Kilner jar The company was forced to close down to convert to gas furnaces and struggled along for a 66 years despite 3,000 people losing their jobs. In 1937, there was a bankruptcy sale, in which the patent rights to the "Kilner Jar" were sold to the United Glass Bottle company along with the rights to the very similar "Mason" jar that had also been made by Kilner. In 2003, The Rayware Group purchased the design, patent and trademark of the original Kilner jar and continues to produce them today in China. A more detailed history of the companies by the Society
William S. Mason Bureau's pumping station, dedicated in 2017, bears her name. The couple had no children. William S. Mason William Spencer Mason (1832 – March 27, 1899) served as mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 1891 to 1894 and 1898 to 1899. Mason was born in Virginia in 1832. From humble origins, he began his career in railroads in the South and Midwest, continuing in San Francisco in the early 1870s, where he helped organize street railway companies. After moving to the Northwest, he helped construct the Northern Pacific line between Tacoma and Seattle. Moving to Portland in 1881, he established McCraken &