Newsletter July 2005 (1) Welcome Section 1 - Welcome Thank you to several people who sent in donations to be used for our DNA project. We once again have a positive balance in the account. I am willing to fund two new tests for any male Bassett that belongs to a family line that has not yet participated in our project and can't afford to participate. Also for anyone living in the Chicago area, I will be presenting the Bassett DNA project at an upcoming meeting of the Elgin Genealogical Society on Thursday, August 18th, 2005. Contact me if you need more information about this talk. You may want to check out the following issue of Time magazine which has an article about genetic genealogy. Source: Time, July 11, 2005 v166 i2 p49. Author: Anita Hamilton ======================================= Section 2 - Featured Bassett: Update on Bassett's Restaurant, Angola, Indiana In a previous newsletter, I pulished a picture of a postcard of Bassett's Restaurant in Angola, Steuben County, Indiana. I stopped in Angola last month and found the following information about this Bassett family. Ollie A. Bassett is descended from #1B John Bassett of Connecticut as follows: John Bassett and wife Margery Ollie A. Bassett Ollie A. Bassett, 78, of 407 East South Street, Angola, and 1545 North Ocean Boulevard, Ocean Ridge, Florida, died Sunday, March 18, in Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Boynton Beach, Florida. He was spending the winter in Florida. Owner of Bassett Restaurant in Angola for 57 years, Bassett was born September 1, 1900, to Burton and Florence (Smith) Bassett. He was a member of the Angola Lions Club, Angola Masonic Ldoge No. 236, and Mizpah Shrine and Scottish Rite, both of Fort Wayne. Surviving are his wife, Winifred; two daughters, Bettie Holland, of Angola, and Billie Lake, of Grand Lodge, Michigan; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday, march 22, in the Weicht Funeral Home, Angola, with Dr. J. Glenn Radcliffe officiating. Masonic rites will be held at the funeral home at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Interment will follow in Circle Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. ======================================= Section 3 - Featured Bassett: The Bassetts of Minneapolis, Minnesota Several sons of Daniel and Abigail (Bean) Bassett moved from Wolfeborough, New Hampshire to Minneapolis. This family descends from William Bassett (#4B) of Lynn, Massachusetts as follows: Roger Bassett and wife Ann Holland 4B146.21. Daniel Bassett, son of John Bassett Daniel Bassett, son of John and Ruth (Newhall) Bassett, was born 31 Mar
1773 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. He married (1) Abigail Bean, daughter
of Joel and Mary (Bean) Bean, on 29 Dec 1808 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire (DMM).
She was born 18 Aug 1785. She died 1 Mar 1838. He married (2) Susanna Jones,
daughter of Richard Jones, on 2 Jan 1840 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. He moved
with his parents to Wolfeborough, New Hampshire in 1790. He accompanied his
son Daniel Bassett Jr. to Minnesota later in life. + 4B146211. John Bassett - born 14 Jan 1812, died 23 Apr 1891, married Amelia McCormick. 4B146212. Hannah Bean Bassett - born 18 Mar 1816, married (1) Amos Jones of Gilmanton (2) Moses Sawyer, son of John and Eunice Sawyer, on 23 Jun 1852 in Dover, New Hampshire (DMM). + 4B146213. Joel Bean Bassett - born 14 Mar 1817, west to Minneapolis and accumulated a large property. 4B146214. Daniel Bassett - born 10 Jan 1819, married Jane Campney. They had Abbie Susan Bassett, born 14 Feb 1846 and Maria Jane Bassett, born 22 Sep 1849. He died in 1899. He lived in Wolfeborough, New Hampshire, until middle age. He then went to Minneapolis and became wealthy. + 4B146215. Philip C. Bassett - born 15 Dec 1821, married Mary Berry and
moved to Minnesota. 4B146217. Mary Ann Bassett - born 9 Nov 1826, died 19 Feb 1827. History of Wolfeborough, New Hampshire John Bassett came from Lynn, Mass., in 1790, and settled on a lot of land
which has ever since been known as the Bassett farm. The buildings were erected
at a considerable distance from the main road, the location where they stood
being now approached by Mill Street, which has been somewhat recently opened.
During the management of affairs by his grandson, Daniel Bassett Jr., the
two-story part of the house was removed to North Main Street, and is now,
with a portion of the farm, owned and occupied by the heirs of the late Abel
Haley. The one-story part still remains with another portion of the farm where
the buildings were first erected. Mr. Bassett's children were: Daniel, married
Abigail Bean; John, married Ruth Wiggin; Lydia, married Samuel Newell; Hannah,
married Joseph Varney; Sally, married Jonathan Buffum; Rebecca, married William
Lyons. Daniel Bassett Jr.'s children were Abbie Susan, born Feb. 14, 1846, and
Maria Jane, born Sept. 22, 1849. Mr. Bassett remained in Wolfeborough until
middle age, and was thrifty; he then went to Minneapolis, and became wealthy.
He was quite active in his adopted home politically and financially. His decease
occurred in 1899. From "Minneapolis, Portrait of the Past", collected and compiled by Edward A. Bromley. Voygeuer Press 1890 BASSETT, Daniel - Daniel Bassett, who has been identified with the lumber and banking business of the city since the early days arrived here in April, 1855, from Wolfboro, New Hampshire. He has been twice honored with a seat in the Legislature, was appointed postmaster in 1865, has been a county commissioner, member of the school board and of the board of equalization. During the Indian war he, with other volunteers, marched to the rescue of the garrison the refugees at Fort Ripley. governor Ramsey, after the Indians were conqueered, appointed him and Capt. Peter Berkey, of St. Paul, as commissioners to appraise damages and afford relief to settlers who had suffered from Indian depredations. He has been an active participator in many local enterprises that were instrumental in developing the business interests in the city. Bassett Creek (Golden Valley, Minnesota) Bassett Creek, flowing through the village area of Golden Valley and the city of Minneapolis, was named for Joel Bean Bassett, an early settler and lumberman, who was born in Wolfborough, N.H., March 17, 1817, and died in Los Angeles, Calif., February 1, 1912. He came to Minnesota in 1849, settling in St. Paul, but soon preempted a tract adjoining the Mississippi in Minneapolis, near the mouth of this creek; removed there in 1852 and afterward engaged in lumbering and flour milling; was a member of the territorial council, 1857; was Indian agent for Minnesota 1865-69. ======================================= Section 4 - Featured Bassett: Bassett Media Family of Canada Edward Bassett of Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland Toronto Daily Star, Thursday, Feb. 13, 1958 Montreal, Feb. 13 - (CP) - John Bassett, 72, chairman of the board of directors of the Gazette Printing Co. Ltd., died last night in hospital. He had been chairman of the board since March, 1956, and president from 1937. Mr. Bassett won success as readily as he won friends. A cub reporter for the Montreal Gazette in 1910, he was Ottawa correspondent for the paper a year later. In 1913, at the age of 27, he was named to the board of directors of the Gazette Printing Co. He interrupted his newspaper career to serve overseas during World War I, rising to the rank of major and winning the Belgian governments Ordre de Reconneissance. Was Ottawa Correspondent - During 15 years as Ottawa correspondent he became president of the parliamentary press gallery in 1925-26 and was Canadian delegate to the third imperial press conference in Australia in 1925. As president of the Gazette Co. he steered it through the difficult late depression years and World War II, and into rapid expansion since the war. Shortly after he became president, an automobile accident complicated a serious hip ailment and forced him to use a wheelchair and crutches for the rest of his life. Born at Omagh, county Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Feb. 7, 1886, he was one of eight children. He came to Canada in 1909 and joined the Gazette after a stint as teacher in a French-speaking school to make him bilingual. Friend of Laurier - In 1936, Mr. Bassett personally acquired controlling interest in the Sherbrooke Record, which he sold to his son, John Jr., in 1946. His son went on to become chairman and publisher of the Toronto Telegram. Other survivors include his wife, formerly Marion Wright Avery of Ottawa, whom he married in 1914, and his daughter, Elizabeth, Mrs. Baldwin Smith of Buffalo. Funeral service is to be held here tomorrow at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, at 2 p.m. His friends and close acquaintances ranged from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Premier Maurice Duplessis of Quebec, whom he described as "one of Canada's greatest sons." John W. H. Bassett, photo courtesy John Bassett Sr. Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr 1998 John Bassett, a Canadian media baron who shifted from newspaper publishing to broadcasting, died Monday at age 82. Mr. Bassett, chairman of Baton Broadcasting Inc., had been in failing health for some time. His first news job was with the Toronto Globe and Mail. After World War II, he took over from his father as publisher of the Sherbrooke Record and in 1952 bought the Toronto Telegram. By the time the Telegram ceased publication in 1971, he had won the first license for a privately owned television station in Toronto -- CFTO-TV, flagship of the CTV network. He later became chairman of Baton Broadcasting, Canada's largest broadcaster. Mr. Bassett, who at one point owned part of the Toronto Maple Leafs professional hockey team, was the father of the late sports entrepreneur John F. Bassett and grandfather of tennis star Carling Bassett. He is survived by his wife, Isabel, and five children.
John F. Bassett, an early investor in the World Football League and United States Football League and the father of teen-age tennis star Carling Bassett, died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 47. In 1976, Bassett underwent an operation for melanoma, a malignant form of skin cancer and it changed his competitive love of sports. "All of a sudden I didn't care," he recalled at the time. "I realized I had a beautiful wife, four great kids and winning or losing games wasn't life and death any more." About two years ago, doctors discovered two malignant tumors in his brain. He recently sold his interests in the USFL's Tampa Bay Bandits. Bassett previously owned an interest in the Canadian League's Toronto Argonauts and the WFL's Memphis Southmen. He also put together a group of investors in 1973 that bought the Ottawa Nationals of the World Hockey Association and moved the team to Toronto. But the team eventually moved to Birmingham, Ala, and later went out of business when the National Hockey League absorbed four WHA teams in 1979. Bassett was known as "Johnny F" to distinguish him from his father, media magnate John W. Bassett, chairman of Baton Broadcasting Inc. which controls the CTV network. Tennis was Bassett's best sport, and at age 15 he won the Canadian Open junior doubles championships. But his prowess was later surpassed by his daughter Carling, at age 18 a top-ranked international player. Bassett was an early investor in the WFL with the Toronto Northmen. He quickly made an impact with a $3.5 million package that lured three mainstays from the NFL champion Miami Dolphins -- Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield -- to jump to the new league in 1974. The signing of the three Miami stars created such turmoil with the Canadian government and the CFL that the club was eventually forced to move to Memphis. The WFL folded in 1975, and Bassett's U.S. ties eventually took him to Florida, where he invested heavily in real estate and, later, in the Bandits. Mr. Bassett is survived by his wife, children Carling, John, 25, Vicky, 23, and Heidi, 16, as well as his father and his mother, Moira Bassett. ======================================= Section 5 - New family lines combined or added since the last newsletter The following family lines have been combined/eliminated since the last newsletter. 257B. The Bassetts of Cloquet, Minnesota into the William Bassett of Plymouth
family 321B. John Bassett of Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England (b. 1823)
======================================= Section 5 - DNA project update. DNA kits from the following family lines were received back by FamilyTreeDNA this month. #1A William Bassett of Plymouth General Fund Scholarship total as of 07/17/05 = $110.00. Donations since the last newsletter: $345.00 Donations of any amount can be made to the Bassett DNA project by clicking on the link below. Any funds donated will be used to fund select Bassett DNA tests that will further our project as a whole and benefit all Bassetts worldwide. http://www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html This is just a reminder that the DNA website can be found at: http://www.bassettbranches.org/dna/ A current spreadsheet of results can be found at: http://www.bassettbranches.org/dna/BassettDNA.xls
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