Mason Locke Weems, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mason Locke Weems

fictionalizing biographer of George Washington

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1759

Place of Birth: Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 23-May-1825

Profession: writer, biographer

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Mason Locke Weems (October 11, 1759 – May 23, 1825), usually referred to as Parson Weems, was an American book agent and author who wrote the first biography of George Washington immediately after his death.
He was the source of some of the apocryphal stories about Washington.
The tale of the cherry tree ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet") is included in the fifth edition of The Life of Washington (1809 imprint, originally published 1800), a bestseller that depicted Washington's virtues and was intended to provide a morally instructive tale for the youth of the young nation.