Bassett Family Association Database
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| 3451 | Franklin Gazette, Malone, Friday, 20 Jun 1884 There was quite a serious accident happened last Sunday afternoon to the wife and mother of Ralph Bassett who lives about three miles north of the village. While Mr. Bassett was getting his family ready for attendance at the union services on the Arsenal Green, and after he had helped his wife a mother into the wagon, he found that his harnesses were not properly adjusted and before he could adjust the same, the horses took fright and ran a short distance, striking a post and throwing the occupants of the wagon to the ground. Each of the ladies had their leg broken below the knee. Dr. Skinner was called who reduced the fractures, and reports his patients as doing well. | Bassett, Ralph Needham (I09642)
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| 3452 | From "History of Clinton County, Iowa, (1879)", Elnathan Bassett, Mrs. Bassett and James Bassett joined the Congregational Church in 1848. 1820 Federal Census of Hannibal, Oswego County, New York Elnathan Bassett 200010-01100 1840 Federal Census of Kosciusko County, Indiana Elnathan Bassett 0100001-0112001 1m5-10,1m40-50,1f5-10,1f10-15,2f15-20,1f40-50 1850 Federal Census of District #5, Clinton County, Iowa Elnathan Bassett 58 M Vermont Luvia 53 F Vermont 1860 Federal Census of Preston Twp., Fillmore County, Minnesota (18 Jun 1860) Elnathan Bassett 65 M Vermont Merchant 1000 1500 Luvia 63 F Vermont | Bassett, Elnathan (I01706)
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| 3453 | From "Spokane and the Inland Empire" we have "Following his removal to Iowa he became a prominent citizen of his adopted county and was called to serve in public office. He was also connected at different times with merchandising and with farming and lived a life of usefulness and activity." In addition to the children listed, EPB also lists Jesse, born 1859, Mary, born 1863, Ray, born 1865, and William, born 1868. 1850 Federal Census of District #5, Clinton County, Iowa Gilbert Bassett 33 M Vermont Mary 33 F Canada Lydia 10 F Canada Henry 9 M Canada Caroline 7 F Canada George 4 M Iowa Francis M. 2 M Iowa Gilbert 1/12 M Iowa 1860 Federal Census of Carimona, Fillmore County, Minnesota (6 Jun 186 G.B.O. Bassett 43 M Vermont Farmer 700 300 Mary 43 F Canada Geo 14 M Iowa Francis 12 M Iowa Gilbert 9 M Iowa Saml 7 M Iowa Mary 3 F Minnesota Saml Smith 73 M New Hampshire Index of Wagon Train Emigrants from Minnesota to Montana The Fisk Train, 1866 T.R. Bassett George W. Bassett Gilbert Bassett Gilbert B.O. Bassett Mary (Smith) Bassett Mary (Harkness) Bassett | Bassett, Gilbert Bingham Oscar (I03552)
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| 3454 | From a Kansas Query by Judy Adams, 1997 I am researching my mother's line, Bassett. Two Bassett brothers settled in Hiawatha with their families sometime in the 1870s. One w great-grandfather, he moved to Colorado around 1906, but I believe his brother remained. The brothers were Marceleon Cornelius Bassett, b. 24 Aug 1844 CT, Dwight E. Bassett b. 17 Apr 1839 CT. They were were Civil war veterans from CT. | Bassett, Marcelon Cornelius (I06275)
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| 3455 | From EARLY TIMES, By Daniel D. Scrobell Minocqua Times, August 28, 1919 AIRPLANE LANDS HERE An airplane landed in the Mattke field near Woodruff last Sunday attracting a large crowd of people from the country around. The machine was forced to land because of a shortage of oil. The occupants were on their way from Chicago to Ironwood and had planned on landing at Mercer. They resumed their journey Monday morning. In 1930, Francis Bassett, the son of B.O. Bassett, became the first Minocqua resident to fly an airplane. Arriving from Wisconsin Rapids where he learned how to fly, his first flight over Minocqua on August 1, 1930, created a good deal of excitement. The TIMES editor wrote: "Interested spectato stood on the streets listening and watching for his approach. When the burr of the plane was heard, excitement reigned, and necks were craned towards the blue, clear skies. A crowd congregated at the Standard Oil airport, seven miles north of here, to welcome the aviator." Bassett went on to become an a transport pilot, but received serious injuries in a crash in the early 1930's and gave up the occupation for the terra firma of a greenhouse business. | Bassett, Francis Hubert (I20129)
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| 3456 | From Vol. 1, page 1003 of Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Essex County. "Lucy Cutler married Deacon Joel Bassett and after removed to Granby where they resided for a considerable number of years and finally emigrated to West New York. They had several children who are supposed to be residing in that vicinity." "History of the Torrence Family" says that Joel Bassett was a member of the Legislature of Vermont and often entertained the great men of the state in his large house, which stood on a hill overlooking the one thousand one hundred acres of land which he owned on the Connecticut Rive Joel, Erastus L. Bassett and his wife Sarah E. (Graham) Bassett, are all buried in the Inland Cemetery in Inland Township, Cedar County, Iowa. It is located about 4 1/2 miles northeast of Bennett, Iowa. | Bassett, Joel (I02667)
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| 3457 | GAZATTEER BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD GENESEE COUNTY, N.Y. Jan 1890 Philo P. Bassett, the youngest son of Samuel and Betsey Bassett, was born in Bergen, August 26, 1834, and at the age of 20 began life for himself, choosing the occupations of carpenter, joiner, and painter, which he followed successfully till 1877. February 25, 1859, he married Harriet W., daughter of William H. and Frances E. Keytes, of Owosso, Mich. In 1877 he commenced the undertaking business in this town, being located then one block south of his present place of business. Just before the big fire of March 1, 1880, he had removed to the building just south of the Bergen Hotel, and thus escaped. The latter part of 1885 he removed his business to the Carpenter & McKenzie block. He deals in funeral furniture, artists' materials, pictures and frames, stationery, etc., and is a funeral director. As an undertaker he is successful and worthily very popular, and his business has largely extended to neighboring towns. 1870 Federal Census of Bergen, Genesee County, New York (4 Jun 1870) Philo Bassett 36 M New York House painter 3000 500 Harriet 37 F New York Milliner 1880 Federal Census of Bergen, Genesee County, New York (24 Jun 1880) Philo B. Bassett 46 M NY CT CT Head Harriet 47 F NY EN EN Wife Keeping House Maud E. 11 F MI MI MI Adopted Daughter At School | Bassett, Philo Bishop (I06541)
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| 3458 | GERALDINE BASSETT COATS - OBIT GERALDINE BASSETT COATS, of Victoria, Texas, died December 14, 1998. Preceded in death by husband Bert R. Coats. Survivors: Cousin, Elizabeth Williams of Richmond; nephew: Mr. Rodney Bassett of Yoakum; Brothers; Mr. Clem Bassett of Yoakum; Sister-in-law: Benita Bassett of Yoakum. Services and Burial: Wednesday 3:00 pm at Graveside Service. Cemetery: Morton Cemetery in Richmond. Arrangements by Buffington Funeral Home in Yoakum. Memorials: Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital in Houston, or Donor's Choice. | Bassett, Geraldine Adair (I11797)
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| 3459 | Geraldine Elizabeth Bassett Perry 15 Oct 2003 Geraldine "Jerry" Elizabeth Bassett Perry, 87, of Canton, passed away at her daughter Barb's home on Monday morning, Oct. 13, 2003. Surviving are two daughters, Barb Perry of Canton and Pat (Sam) Mott of Doylestown; a stepson, Denny Perry of Canton; 12 grandchildren; two step- grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; two step-great grandchildren; ni great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Jane Soper of Ralson and Grace Gublo of Elmira, N.Y., and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Jerry was predeceased by her first husband, LaRue Bassett, in 1952, second husband, Ernest "Short" Perry, in 1972; a daughter, JoAnne Lyon, in 2000 and five grandchildren. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Pepper Funeral Home, Canton. The funeral will be 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be in the Grover Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Guthrie Hospice, RR1, Box 154, Towanda, PA 18848, or the Green Free Library, 14 N. Center St., Canton, PA 17724. | Black, Geraldine Elizabeth (I18349)
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| 3460 | Grand Rapids Press, 1 Jan 2005 BASSETT - Naomi B. Bassett, aged 96, of Jenison and formerly of Wayland passed away Thursday, December 30, 2004 and went to be with her Lord. She is survived by her children, John "Jack" (Eunice) Bassett, Connie (J. Arthur) Hooke Anita (Howard) Deal, Joyce (Robert G.) Parker; 13 grandchildren; 23 gre grandchildren; sister, Jeanice Covell; also several nieces, nephews and cousins. Naomi was preceded in death by her husband, Ellsworth in 1994. She was a charter member of Calvary Church of Wayland and present member of Calvary Baptist Church in Grand Rapids. Funeral Services will be held 11:00 a.m. Monday at Calvary Church of Wayland with Rev. Richard Van Norman officiating. Interment Elmwood Cemetery, Cedar Springs. Memorials may be made to New Tribes Mission. Family will greet relatives and friends 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Arrangements by: Archer, Hampel & Kubiak Wayland Chapel 269-792-2237. | Morehouse, Naomi (I16132)
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| 3461 | Grand Rapids Press, 28 Jun 2006 Rose Bassett Rose Bassett, age 66, of Pierson, passed away June 26 at her daughter's house in Coral. She was born September 23, 1939 in Grand Rapids, MI the daughter of Herman and Beatrice (Williams) Roberts. Rosie was a member of the Howard City Ladies Auxiliary. She loved to play bingo, gamble and cook. Surviving are five sons, Thomas of Morley, Ronald (Jacklyn) of Howard City, David of Morley, John (Kathy) Weigel of Howard City, Gordon Jr. of Coral; 31 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren; nine brothers and sisters, Pat Rosely of Comstock Park, Herman Roberts of Rockford, Fredrick Roberts of Greenville, Le Roy Roberts, Dan Nestle, Art Roberts all of Howard City, Carl and Gary Nestle both of Morley, Ruth Ann Lofts of CA; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Gordon, a son, James, two sisters, Arlene and Edna and a brother, David. Funeral Services will take pla Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at the Heckman Funeral Home with Pastor Tom Ball officiating with burial in the Pierson Cemetery. Memorials to the Howard City Ladies Auxiliary may be left at the funeral home where friends may call today, Wednesday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. and prior to services on Thursda Heckman Funeral Home (231) 937-4315. | Roberts, Rose (I22984)
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| 3462 | Grand Rapids Tribune (4 Mar 1908) Death of Mrs. Bassett Mrs. Eliza Anna Bassett died on Sunday, March 1st, after an illness of some little time at the advanced age of 78 years. Deceased was born in Oneida county, New York on the 26th of October, 1829 and was married to Alrarz J. Bassett on the 26th of March, 1847. She came to Wisconsin with her husband in July, 1847 and settled in Rock county. Later, during the year 1854 they moved to Adams county and moved to Wood county in the fall of 1866, and had lived there continuously ever sinc Three children were born to them, two daughters and a son. Her husband died Dec. 17, 1899, and both daughters have gone on before. Since her husband's death Mrs. Bassett has made her home with her son, Ira A. Bassett of this city, where she was residing at the time of her death. The funeral was held on Tuesday from the Methodist church, Rev. Evans conducting the services. | Unknown, Eliza Anna (I07806)
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| 3463 | Grant County Obituaries Bassett: Mary A. Bassett, age 98, of Silver City, died Feb. 11 in Ft. Bayard Medical Center. Miss Bassett was born May 2, 1883 in Blair, Nebraska, t daughter of Samuel and Sarah Jane Young Bassett, and resided here since 1914. She was a partner and head bookkeeper of the Bassett Brothers Ford Agency of Silver City, Santa Rita and Deming. Miss Bassett was a Past Worthy Matron of Eastern Star, a Past president of the Business and Professional Woman and a member of the Green Thumb Gardeners Club. She is survived by one sister, Gertrude C. Warrick of Silver City; two nieces and four nephews. Services were held last Saturday in the Curtis-Bright Funeral Home Chapel under the direction of Rev. C.M. Henderson. Burial followed in Memory Lane Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were Samuel E. Steppe, Robert L. Johnson, Fra Parrish, Ernest Brown, Carroll Mann, and Melvin Huff. Arrangements by Curtis- Bright Funeral Home. | Bassett, Mary Alvina (I07203)
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| 3464 | Grant County Obituaries Bertha S. Bassett Bassett: Bertha S. Bassett, 92, died Oct. 17, in Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Bassett was born in Iowa and spent her early years in Blair, Neb., where she married Harry E. Bassett, and they came to Silver City in 1911. She is survived by a daughter, Eileen Farney of Dallas, with whom she has lived since 1955; three grandchildren, Bill Clarkson of Midland, Texas, Camille Noser of Lexington, Ohio, and Jerry Farney of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and 13 grandchildren. Mrs. Bassett was preceded in death by her husband, former owner of the Ford Agency in Silver City, in 1964, and a daughter, Gertrude Clarkson of El Pas 1959. Mrs. Bassett was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd, the Silver City Woman's Club and the Silver City Music Club. Interment was Oct. 21, in Memory Lane Cemetery following services by the Rev. C.M. Henderson. Pallbearers were Buddy Bassett, Ira John Bassett, Thomas E. Holland, Frank Parrish Earnest Brown and Sam Stepp. | Sass, Bertha Ann Maria (I07208)
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| 3465 | Grant County Obituaries Gertrude Elizabeth Bassett Bassett: Gertrude Elizabeth Bassett, 88 died Thursday evening in Silver City. Mrs. Bassett was born in Gainesville, Texas, and was a longtime resident of Grant County. She was a communicant of Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. Mrs. Bassett is survived by one daughter, Mary Walden of Fairfax, Va.; one son, Ira Bassett of Silver City; three step-brothers, George Gaylord of Silver City, Paul Gaylord of Port St. Lucie, Fla., and Russell Wilson of Apache Junction, Ari.; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Memory Lane Cemetery wi Monsignor A. James Milano officiating. Interment will follow. Visitations will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Curtis-Bright Funeral chapel. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society in care of the funeral home. Arrangements are by the Curtis-Bright Funeral Home. | Mara, Gertrude Elizabeth (I07202)
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| 3466 | Grant County Obituaries Ira J. Bassett Bassett: Ira J. Bassett, 82, pioneer of Silver City, where he had resided for 45 years, past away last Friday at Hillcrest General Hospital. He had been in ill health for the past two years. Until his retirement from business some years ago, Mr. Bassett was associated with his two brothers, Harry Bassett and C.C. Bassett and sister, Miss Mary Bassett, in the operation of the Ford Motor Co. Dealership in Silver City, Santa Rita and Deming, for many years one of the largest automotive agencies in Southwestern New Mexico. Also, over a period of years, Mr. Bassett was a director of the American National Bank. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Bassett; a son, Ira J. Bassett Jr., Silver City; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Walden of Biloxi, Miss.; Two sisters, Miss Mary Bassett and Mrs. Gertrude Warrick, Silver City, and a brother, Har Bassett, Dallas, Tx. Private funeral services were held Saturday, at 4 PM at the Curtis Mortuary Chapel, the Rev. Kenneth Ford, pastor of the First Methodist Church, conducting the rites. Internment was in the Silver Ci cemetery mausoleum. | Bassett, Ira John (I07201)
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| 3467 | Grosse Pointe News, Michigan, 24 Jan 1985 Arthur F. Bassett Jr. Services for Mr. Bassett, 60, of Lothrop Road, were held Friday, Jan. 18, at the Verheyden Funeral Home and Grosse Pointe Unitarian Churc He died Jan. 14 in Henry Ford Hospital. Mr. Bassett was a 1945 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Architecture and a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He received his master's degree from Cranbrook Institute and studied further in Europe. He was a registered architect and partner in Albert Kahn Assoc., Architects and Engineers. He was an active member in the Barbershop Society of the Lakeshore Chorus, the Players and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Mr. Bassett is survived by his wife, Lee; four daughters; Susan Bassett, Barbara Lambert, Elizabeth Palcombit and Nancy Bassett; three sisters; and two grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the heart fund. Interment was at Woodlawn Cemetery. | Bassett, Arthur Frederick (I18850)
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| 3468 | H.E. Turner & Company Mr. Robert F. Bassett Batavia - Mr. Robert F. Bassett, age 76, of Batavia, a maintenance worker at Oakfield-Alabama High School, died Monday, April 11, 2005, at United Memorial Medical Center. Mr. Bassett was born July 22, 1928 in Perry, a son of the late Percy and Mary Jane Mandeville Bassett. He was a graduate of Perry High School and was a veteran of the Korean Conflict serving with the United States Army. Surviving are his wife, Joyce L. Bush Bassett, whom he married December 23, 1950; his son, Wayne W. (Diane) Bassett of Batavia; his daughter, Stacey A. (William) Bradley of Batavia; two brothers, his twin, William G. (Betty) Bassett of Dansville and Raymond (Marian) Bassett of Orlando, Fla.; four grandchildren, Melissa and Marla Bassett and Justin and Brandon Bradley and several nieces and nephews. There are no prior calling hours. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday at the H.E. Turner & Co. Funeral Home. Burial will be in Grand View Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to United Memorial Medical Center, 127 North Street, Batavia, New York 14020. | Bassett, Robert Frank (I24310)
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| 3469 | H.L. Farmer & Sons Funeral Homes Beverly (Bassett) Mackay, 25 Jan 2007 Mrs. Beverly (Bassett) Mackay, 81, of Haverhill, died Thursday morni Penacook Place Nursing Home, Haverhill. She was born in No. Conway, NH, April 30, 1925, daughter of the late Jack and Edna (Colby) Bassett. Educated in the Haverhill Grammar Schools, she graduated from Gould Academy, Bethel, ME. Mrs. Mackay graduated from McIntoch Business School. She was employed in the family Travel Agency, Bassett Tours, and, more recently for the Visiting Nurses Association, Haverhill. A wonderful grandmother, Mrs. Mackay was an avid gardener, crafter, baker and cookie maker. She was the wife of the late Richard Mackay who died in 1985, and her survivors include a daughter Sharon and her husband Dick Sinotte, 3 sons, Richard and his wife Kathleen Mackay, Geoff Mackay, and Charles Drew all of Haverhill, 2 brothers, Jack Bassett of Lovell, ME, Walter Bassett of Boca Raton, F sisters, Beryl Hull of Braintree, Priscilla Johnstone of Bangor, ME, 6 grandchildren, Courtney and Christian Sinotte, Kymberly and her husband Shaun Kelly, Alisa and her husband Rich Andrusiak, Geoff Mackay, Jr., and Ashleigh Mackay, as well as several nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the Memorial Service Sunday afternoon at 3:00 at the H.L. Farmer & Sons Funeral Home, 106 Summer St., Haverhill. A visitation period will precede the Memorial Service from 2:00 to 3:00 on Sunday at the Funeral home. Burial will be at the convenience of the family in Elmwood Cemetery, Bradford. Contributions in her memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 18 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02108. | Bassett, Beverly M. (I15232)
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| 3470 | Hamilton, Illinois PRESS Friday, Oct. 18, 191 W. H. SHEPHERD __________ An old and Valued Resident of Hamilton Died at Burlingt Mr. W. H. Shepherd died in Burlington, at the home of his son, Charles Shepherd, Thursday evening October 10th in his seventy-ninth year. He w married to Miss Ruth Bassett September 29th, 1859, and their married life was a very happy one. To this union was born eleven children, six boys and five girls all of whom are living and whose names and places of residences are as follows: John Shepherd, Vandalia, Illinois; Odgen Shepherd, Centralia, Missouri; Robert and Ed Shepherd, Houston, Texas; Charles Shepherd, Burlington, Iowa; James Shepherd, Tulare, California; Mrs. W.K. Howes, of West Point, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Turner, Heppner, Oregon; Mrs. Orlando White, Palisade, Colorado; Mrs. Sterling Beedle of Ladonia, Missouri and Mrs. Henry Harrison of Hamilton. A brother, Joseph Shepherd, and one sister, Eliza Shepherd live at Ursa, Illinois. The passing of our good brother from this life was peaceful and quiet. He was ready to go, he longed to go. Since the death of his wife not quite a year ago he has been restless. She was the subject of his thoughts and conversations. A few years ago Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd celebrated the 50th anniversary of their married live. The twain had stood together like two trees of t forest with interlocked branches. Side by side in life's great battle they had fought the good fight and won the day. The old home is now no more. It is a sad thing, even at manhood and womanhood to become fatherless and motherless. No one but God can make up for the loss of a father's counsel and a mother's tenderness. Hope thou is God. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Our brother was a life long member of the Christian Church as w also his wife. The services were held at the Christian church Sunday afternoon at 2:30, the Rev. J. Ross Miller, formerly pastor of the Christian church, preached a very helpful sermon on the Resurrection, H.C. Parsons assisted in the service. The choir was composed of Mrs. Hurley Moore and Miss Goldie Berry. The hymns were selected by the deceased some time before his death. "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Asleep in Jesus". These were the same numbers that were sang at the funeral of Mrs. Shepherd who died December 7, 191 The members of the family who were present were Chas. Shepherd and wife of Burlington, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Howes, West Point, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Beddle, of Ladonia, Missouri; O.D. Shepherd and family, of Centralia, Missouri; and Mr. and Mrs. H.S. Harrison. The pall bearers were J.P. Guthrie, J.H. Berry, D.L. Conklin, W. Kiser, M. Champeau and Samuel Howes. The interment was Oakwood cemeter Those who attended the funeral from a distance were the followi nieces and nephews of Mr. Shepherd; Mr. and Mrs. George Laughlin, Mrs. Dudley Laughlin and Mrs. George Groves all from Adams county. | Shepherd, William Harrison (I10398)
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| 3471 | Harland G. Bassett, 19 May 1980 GENEVA - Harland George Bassett, 66, 640 E. Lawn St., died at 9:50 p.m. Monday in Geneva Memorial Hospital. He was born April 21, 1914, in Cherry Valley, the son of Neal and Elta Loveland Bassett. Bassett was a retired employee of Ohio Water Co. A veteran of World War II, he was a member of Park Street Christian Church and Geneva VFW Post. Survivors include his wife, Grace Admes Bassett, whom he married Dec. 27, 1941; and a sister, Lauris Chalker of Middlefield. A sister, a brother and two half-brothers preceded him in death. Services will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Kennedy Funeral Home. Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today. | Bassett, Harland George (I23134)
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| 3472 | Harold I. Bassett Wabash - Harold Israel Bassett, 79, Rt. 4, Wabash, died at 7:55 p.m. Monday in Miller's Manor East, Wabash. Mr. Bassett, born in Shelby County, was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Lincolnville United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Margaret; a son, Richard Wabash; two brothers, Ralph, Wabash, and William, Shelbyville; two sisters, Mrs. Robert (Mary) Cooley, Kokomo, and Mrs. Robert (Helen) Cosand, Tucson, Ariz.; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Hunter Funeral Home, 104 S. Main St., LaFontaine, with the Rev. Doug Barton officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Etna Cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home Feb. 1, 1988. Harold I. Bassett Harold I. Bassett, 79, R.R. 4, died at 7:55 p.m. Monday at Miller's Merry Manor East. He had been ill for one month. He was born on May 8, 1908, in Shelby County to Ernest and Grace (Bass) Bassett. He married Margaret Randoll on July 20, 1929. She survives. A retired farmer, Mr. Bassett had lived in Wabash County since 1943, coming from Kokomo. He was a member of the Lincolnville United Methodist Church. Also surviving are one son, Harold Gene Bassett, Wabash; two brothers, Ralph Bassett, Wabash, and William Bassett, Shelbyville; two sisters, Mrs. Robert (Mary) Cooley, Kokomo, and Mrs. Robert (Helen) Cosand, Tuscons, Ariz.; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at the Hunter Funeral Home, LaFontaine. The Rev. Doug Barton will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Etna Cemetery, Mt. Etna. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Date of death: Feb. 2, 1988 Date of pulication: Feb. 2, 1988 | Bassett, Harold Israel (I21199)
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| 3473 | Harold W. Rooks, 1974 CORTLANE - Harold W. Rooks, 67, 4693 Ridge Rd., NE (Johnston Township), was pronounced dead on arrival at Trumbull Memorial Hospital, Warren, at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. He was born Jan. 29, 1907, in Greene, the son of Burt and Merle Winchell Rooks. A resident here 35 years, Mr. Rooks was a farmer, and was also employed by the Brainard Strapping Division of Sharon Steel Corp., Warren, for 12 years, prior to retiring. Survivors include his wife, Vera Clauss Rooks, whom he married Nov. 14, 1940; a daughter, Mrs. Thelma Lukehart of Cortlane; two grandchildren; and a brother, Floyd of Phoenix, Ariz. Services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Shafer-Winans and Love Funeral Home. Burial will be in Johnston Township Cemeter Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. | Rooks, Harold (I23131)
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| 3474 | Harriett D. Greene, Rutland Herald MIDDLEBURY - Harriett Davis Greene, 76, died March 27, 2002, in Middlebury. She was born Sept. 22, 1925, the daughter of Charles and Ruth (Davis) Greene of Bristol, Conn. She graduated from high school in Bristol, and attended Smith College. She later studied music at the Hartford School of Music and Bennington College. She married Preston Bassett Jr. in 1944. They later divorced. She then married Maurice Ewing, who predeceased her. After Mr. Ewing's death she married George Doey, who also predeceased her. She worked at Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory for 20 years. She also worked with her husband, Professor Ewing, as his assistant at Lamont and later as manager of Galveston Geophysical Institute. She was a member of St. Stephen's Church in Middlebury and the Middlebu Garden Club. She enjoyed music and was an accomplished pianist. Survivors include a daughter, Ellen Meadors of Lincoln, Mass.; a son, the Rev. Paul Bassett of Cincinnati; a sister, Martha Ullery of Tucson, Ariz.; a stepdaughter, Colleen (Doey) Thomas of Derbyshire, England; her companion, Arthur Smith; and five granddaughters. She was predeceased by a daughter, Martha Bassett (Geacintov), in 197 The memorial service will be held Saturday, April 20, at 3 p.m. at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Middlebury. A reception will follow at the Middlebury Community House. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. George Russian Orthodox Church, 4905 Myrtle Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio, 45242, St. Stephen's Church in Middlebury, or the Addison Community Action Group. | Greene, Harriett (I21336)
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| 3475 | Helen L. Cosand July 2, 1910 - Dec. 3, 2003 Helen L. Cosand, 93, Kokomo, died 10:10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003, at Waterford Place Health Campus. She was born July 2, 1910, in Shelby County, the daughter of Ernest and Grace (Bass) Bassett. On July 19, 1929, in Kokomo, she married Robert L. Cosand and he preceded her in death Dec. 14, 198 She was a homemaker. She had worked at Reliance Manufacturing, Kresge Department Store and Mary Mac Candy Store. She was a member of St. Luke United Methodist Church where she was also in Thy Joy Club. Her other memberships included the YWCA Grandmother's Club, Order of Eastern Star No. 89 Kokomo and The Bible Study Group at Alto Road Church of Christ. Survivors include grandchildren, Vivian and Stephen Ramer, Christopher Jackson, all of Kokomo, and Jodi and Robert Bomely, Knoxville, Tenn.; great- grandchildren, Dustin Ramer, Joshua and Tracy Ramer, all of Kokomo, Sara Jackson, Norfolk, Va., August and Luke Askins, Manardville, Tenn., and Jacob Bomely, Knoxville, Tenn.; great-great-grandchildren, Kirsten, Alise and Lydia Ramer, all of Kokomo; and a brother-in-law, Robert Cooley, Kokomo. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and one daughter, Betty Jackson. Services are 1 p.m. Saturday at Ellers Mortuary Webster Street Chapel, 3400 S. Webster St., with the Rev. Harold Williams officiating. Burial will be in Crown Point Cemetery. Friends may call 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the mortuary. | Bassett, Helen Laverne (I21197)
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| 3476 | Henry N. Bassett, Executive in Government and Banki A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 27, at the Presbyterian Church in Chatham Township for Henry N. Bassett, 89, of Chatham Township, who died Sunday, Oct. 22, 1995, at Overlook Hospit Summit. Mr. Bassett was born in Manson, Iowa, and had lived in Chicago, Boston and Washington, D.C., before moving to Chatham Township 37 years ag He joined the Continental Insurance Co. in New York in 1958 and retired as secretary in 1971. Previously, he had been the Associate Director of Accounting for the Air Force headquarters in Washington, D.C.; the Reconstruction Finance Corp. also in Washington, and the investment banking firm of Halsey, Stuart & Co. in Chicago, Boston and Baltimore, M Mr. Bassett was a 1927 graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Mr. Bassett was the recipient of the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal. He was a life member of the Financial Executives Institute, a national organization in New York. Mr. Bassett was the treasurer of the Presbyterian Church in Chatham Township for many years. Surviving are his wife, Sarah; two sons, David of Forest Hill, MD., and Richard of Fairfax,VA.; a daughter, Sally Walker of Chatham; and six grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Memorial Fund, Presbyterian Church, 240 Southern Blvd., Chatham, NJ. 07928 or to a charity of the donor's choice. Arrangements are by the Wm. A. Bradley & Son Funeral Home 345 Main St., Chatham. | Bassett, Henry Naumann (I20049)
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| 3477 | Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, 25 Jan 1993 Rebecca L. Bassett ALMA - Rebecca L. Bassett, 70, Alma, died Saturday (Jan. 23, 1993). Member: Salem Lutheran Church. Survivors: husband, Ralph; son, Clyde, Quincy, daughter, Mary Ester Wildner-Bassett, Tucson, Ariz. Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday, Salem Lutheran Church, Salem. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Neal Funeral Home, Kinmundy, and one hour before services Wednesday in the church. Burial: Sandy Branch Cemetery, rural Alma. Memorials: Special Needs Fund of Salem Lutheran Church or Sandy Branch Cemetery. | Freitag, Rebecca Lois (I16316)
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| 3478 | HERBERT E. BASSETT SR., 81 Fisherman; builder; sea captain; World War II Army veter CAPE CODE TIME, June 10, 2002 SOUTH CHATHAM - Herbert E. Bassett Sr., 81, of South Chatham and Augusta, Maine, died May 31 at Maine General Hospital in August He was the husband of the late Eleanor (Casassa) Basset Mr. Bassett was born in South Chatham and educated in Chatham a Harwich. A World War II Army veteran, he served in the 408th Ordinance Division as one of 5,000 soldiers protecting the Panama Canal. He earned the good conduct, an American Theater campaigning ribbon and a World War II Victory Medal, as well as a medal of appreciation from the town of Chatham. Whi serving in Panama, he also became a licensed sea captain. After the war Mr. Bassett worked as a fisherman and shell fisherman, and was co-owner of Bassett and Crocker Builders, which built custom home on the Mid and Lower Cape. The company was the first builder for Nickerson Home Center. Mr. Bassett was past president of the Cape Cod Fish and Game Association and the Barnstable County League of Sportsmen, and a member of the Nauset Rod and Gun Club and the National Rifle Association. He was a sportsmen's rights advocate and a collector, and was dedicated to this family. He had recently lived in both South Chatham and Augusta. Surviving are two daughters, Charlotte Summers and Becky Fuller, both of Chatham; two sons, Herbert E. Bassett Jr. of South Chatham and William E. Bassett of West Harwich; a brother Ivan Bassett of Chatham, two sisters, Norma Avellar of South Chatham and Lucille Milligan of East Bridgewater; 22 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephew Services were held in Chatham. Memorial donations may be made to the Chatham Rescue Squad, c/o Fire Dept. Assoc., Depot St., Chatham, MA 20633. | Bassett, Herbert Edson (I23670)
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| 3479 | Heritage of Faribault County, Minnesota Tuff Publishing, Inc. (1987) FRANK RIPLEY and MARY (PENGILLY) by Elsie A. Rivard Frank Mitchell Ripley was born April 10, 1879 at Taycheedah, Wisconsin to Alice L. (Mitchell) and Willie B. Ripley. On August 25, 1905, Frank married Mary Elizabeth Pengilly (born March 26, 1882 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), daughter of Abbie S. (Hill) and James Pengilly of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Mary and Frank were of English ancestry. Mary (Pengilly) Ripley's mother, Abbie S. (Hill) Pengilly (1850?-1916) was born at Brownville, Maine. Abbie moved to the Minnesota area and graduated from St. Cloud Normal School in 1877. In 1881 Abbie married James Pengilly (1841-1925) a well-read miller, who had emigrated from Cornwall, England. One line of Frank Ripley's ancestry (Bassett) can be traced to Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. One ancestor, Barachiah Bassett (1782-1859), a soldier in the War of 1812, left Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts to settle at Lowville and later Alexandria Bay, New York. Barachiah, an active member of the Methodist Church, married Nancy Butler (1785-1845) in July of 1806. Among their eleven children were Francis, Cynthia, and Elizabeth all of whom eventually made their way to Faribau County, Minnesota. Cynthia Bassett (1815-1901) taught school several years before marrying Daniel Ripley (1801-1888), in 1846. Daniel and Cynthia Ripley traveled with their infant son, Willie (1847-1936) by the lake route fr Alexandria Bay, New York to Shelby, Wisconsin to reach their homestead of 40 acres of school land in Taycheedah Township, Wisconsin. Cynthia's letters well describe their life in Wisconsin where Daniel, a colporteur, even performed marriages. Their son, Willie Ripley, enlisted at age 17 in the 45th Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. Most of his 6 months of service were spent at the Union Hospitals in Nashville, Tennessee due to the effects of measles. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Bassett (1819-1884), a teacher, married Oscar Mitchell (1823?-1937?) in 1848. Elizabeth took their only child, Alice L. Mitche (1849-1937), to the Wisconsin Territory to visit her sister Cynthia (Bassett) Ripley. During that visit the sisters' children, Alice and Willie, met and fell in love. Alice Mitchell and Willie Ripley married at Taycheedah in 1847 - a marriage spanning 67 years. Seven of their eight children were born at Taycheedah. In 1883 the Willie Ripley family moved to Verona Township, Faribault County where they acquired 460 acres. Daniel and Cynthia Ripley and Elizabeth (Bassett) Mitchell Frost joined their children in the Winneba area. Cynthia Ripley, active in the Methodist Church and called "Grandma Ripley" by area residents, wrote a regular column for the Winnebago Pre News. In 1910, part of the Willie Ripley family moved to West Plains, Missouri to seek a milder climate. Alice and Willie Ripley were known for their literary interests; Alice wrote beautiful poetry while Willie recorded his Civil War experiences and memoirs in letters sent to grandchildre Alice and Willie Ripley's children include: Louis (1869-1951), unmarried, West Plains, Missouri John G. (1872-1963) married Mary C. Dunbar, farmed at Verona Township Winnfred (1875-1918), unmarried West Plain, Missouri Bessie A. (1877-1965), married Joh Krosch; farmed near Blue Earth. Frank M. (1879-1971), married Mary Pengilly (1882-1964), farmed near Verona, Bass Lake, and Elmore. Nellie B. (1881-1976 married and later divorced Swan Johnson, West Plains Missouri. Georgia A. (1883-1947) married Thomas Willis, moved to Ontario, Canada. Rose A. (1887-1970), married Maynard Smith; veterinarian at Elmore. Frank and Mary (Pengilly) Ripley's first home was a house which Frank had built for them on his parent's farm in Verona Township. In 1910 they moved to West Plains, Missouri to join his parents in farming. Later, they moved to the Roscoe, area of Missouri. In 1925, the family traveled to Minnesota to visit relatives. They decided to not return to Missouri after their vehicle caught fire and burned. The family lived at and farmed several locations (Verona and Bass Lake) before Frank and Mary bought a small farm on the edge of Elmore. Frank retired from active farming and took up carpentry for area people. Frank held positions of leadership in the various churches they attended. Both Mary and Frank were advocates of the Temperance Society. Their children include: Alice W. (born 1911), married Charles Herrmann (born 1913, see Herrman article), farming at Delavan, Minnesota. James W. (born 1921), married Eileen Noyes, residing at El Dora Springs, Missouri. Richard F. (born 1916) married Joyce Moore; farming at Elmore, Minnesota. Elizabeth H. (born 1921) married Robert Lawrence; reside at Hemphill, Texas. A number of their Ripley and Hermans descendants live and farm in the Elmore, Blue Earth, and Delavan area. | Ripley, Frank Mitchell (I07058)
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| 3480 | Hinsdale Historical Society 3 Jun 1937 Word has been received by Mrs. C.L. Washburn of the death of Mrs. O.P. Bassett of Pasadena, Cal., in the Huntington Memorial hospital, May 19, 1937. Mrs. Bassett was the widow of O.P. Bassett, formerly of Hinsdale, who passed away in Pasadena, Cal. February 26, 1921. After the death of Mr. Bassett, Mrs. Bassett sold the family residence and spent summers in San Francisco and winters at the Vista Del Arroyo Hotel, Pasaden Mrs. Bassett is survived by a nephew, P.D. M. Lord of Los Angeles. Funeral services were held May 20th from Turner and Stevens Funeral Chapel, Pasadena. Death Notice from the Pasadena Star-News Bassett - Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. today, May 20, 1937 at the chapel of Turner & Stevens Company for Mrs. Imogene G. Bassett, widow of Orland P. Bassett. Mrs. Bassett had been a resident of Pasadena 26 years having lived most of the time at the Maryland Hotel and the Hotel Vista del Arroyo. She is survived by her nephew, P.D.M. Lord, Los Angeles. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. John Frank Scott, followed by private interment. | Imogene (I07711)
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| 3481 | History Genealogical and Biographical of the Bassett and Allied Families (1919) Henry Carlton Hulbert Henry Carlton Hulbert, only son of Amos Geer and Cynthia (Bassett) Hulbert, was born in Lee, Massachusetts, December 19, 1831, died April 24, 1912. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and completed his studies at Lee Academy, Lee, Massachusetts. Of a strong individuality and pronounced principles, he was a leader among his comrades, and at an age when most youths are enjoying school and pleasures he sought the business world, at sixteen years becoming a clerk in the store of Willi Taylor. A short time afterward he was offered a position in the dry goo house of Plunkett & Hulbert, of Pittsfield, and upon submitting the matter to his parents he was told that thereafter "self reliance must be his capital." His faith in his ability to succeed was justified by his rise, within three years, from errand boy to the cashiership. His ambition demanded wider fields of effort and he determined to try his fortunes in the metropolis of New York. He was cautioned by his father, with whom he consulted, that not more than ten in one hundred were able to wrest success from the city, and his reply was "I propose to be one of the ten." In February, 1851, at the age of nineteen, Mr. Hulbert went to New York, with letters of recommendation to several firms, among them Cyrus W. Field & Company and Wite & Sheffield. Mr. Field was an old acquaintance of his father, and received the young man cordially, informing him that he had no position open at the time, but that he might use the firm's name as a city reference. He then presented his letters to White & Sheffield, importers of and extensive dealers in paper manufactures. The firm were very favorab impressed with the young man and his conduct during the interview, and Mr. Sheffield asked him what he proposed to do. His prompt reply was characteristic, and decided the interview in his favor: "If you gi position, I propose to make myself so useful that you will give me an interest in your business." History shows how his word was kept. His salary for the first year was $400. His previous training had been thorough and exacting, and he had been submitted to the severest discipline as errand boy, salesman, bookkeeper, and cashier, all of which was excellent equipment for his new work. He was always on the alert, and near the close of the year an opportunity presented of which he was quick to avail himself. It was the firm's custom to send account sales at the close of each quarter to the manufacturing concerns they represented, but the illness of the bookkeeper and cashier whose duty this was, made it apparently impossible that quarter. At this juncture young Hulbert offered to fill the place of the absent employee until he should be able to resume his duties, stating that he had been trained in similar work, and, being entrusted with the mission, he fulfilled it in the most efficient manner. This incident did much to impress the heads of t business with his usefulness, versatility, and willingness. Shortly afterward, another event strengthened this impression materially. There was an unfortunate rupture between the firms of White & Sheffield and Cyrus W. Field & Company, in which their relations became so strained that the letters of the former firm were returned unanswered. The matter was placed in the hands of Mr. Hulbert and he was given full powers in its settlement, which was effected in an amicable and satisfactory manner through his wise discretion and diplomacy. In the great panic of 1867, Mr. Hulbert was sent on a western trip for the purpose of settling old and, at his discretion, opening new accounts. His experience in the main office had familiarized him with the financial conditions of the trade, knowledge he used so advantageously that full collection followed every sale he made. He had fulfilled his promise made to the firm at the time he entered their employ, and in less than four years he was given an interest in the profits in lieu of salary. One year later, at the age of twenty-four years, he was admitted to full partnership and the firm name changed to J.B. Sheffield & Company. On the expiration of the articles of partnership, January 1, 1858, Mr. Hulbert was offered fifty per cent, advance on his interest to remain, but declined. Forming an association with Milan Hulbert, of Boston, a cousin, under the firm name of H.C. & M. Hulbert (with Otis Daniell, of Boston, as special partner for $30,000) he at once started independent operations as an importer and dealer in paper makers' supplies, on a capital of forty thousand dollars. After completing the organization of the business, Mr. Hulbert sailed for Europe, where he secured a number of valuable exclusive agencies, some of which have been retained by his successors. Upon his return in 1858, the firm opened offices at No. 83 John Street, entering upon a career successful and profitable from the outset. Until the time of Mr. Hulbert's retirement the firm had only one reorganization, although there were several changes in the personnel. In 1862 special partner Otis Daniell sold his interest to the general partners, without security, giving them thr years in which to make payment. In 1872, general partner Milan Hulbert withdrew, when the firm was reorganized as H.C. Hulbert & Company, Mr. Hulbert admitting as partners Joseph H. Sutphin and George P. Hulbert, both of whom had served a thorough apprenticeship in the business as clerks in the establishment. Mr. George P. Hulbert died in the autumn of the same year, and in 1890, Charles F. Bassett, who had grown up in the business from a boy, was admitted as a partner, and the business continued under the same firm name until May 1, 1900, when H.C. Hulbert retired and Bassett and Sutphin became his successors. While controlling the principal interests of his own firm, Mr. Hulbert's business ability and influence have been sought in other directions. He was from 1881 to January, 1900, (when the Pullman Company purchased the assets of the Wagner Company, and when J.P. Morgan, W.K. Vanderbilt, and other Wagner directors were added to the Pullman Company board) the only New York director of the Pullman Palace Car Company, of Chicago, Illinois, and at Mr. Pullman's death, Robert Lincoln, Marshall Field and Mr. Hulbert constituted the executive committee of the company. Mr. Hulbert was also trustee and member of the finance committee of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, and also of the Celluloid Company. He was one of the trustees and first vice- president of the South Brooklyn Savings Institution, and for more than thirty years was a director of the Importers' and Traders' National Bank of New York, also of the United States Life Insurance Company, and one of the trustees of the Franklin Trust Company, of Brooklyn. He was a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, life member of both the New York and Brooklyn New England Societies, member of the Society of the Colonial Wars, and a member and chairman of the executive committee of the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He was for many years a member of the South Congregational Church of Brooklyn, a trustee of the society and superintendent of the Sabbath school. Upon the call of his cousin, Rev. Edward P. Ingersoll, to the pastorate of the Middle Reformed Church of Brooklyn, he changed his affiliation to that church, later becoming superintendent of the Sabbath school. With the call of Dr. Ingersoll to the Puritan Church in 1882, M Hulbert united with Christ Church, on Clinton Street, where he was a member of the vestry until his death. Henry Carlton Hulbert married (first) in September, 1854, Susan R. Cooley, step-daughter of William Porter, a prominent lawyer of Lee, Massachusetts. For seven years Mrs. Hulbert was an invalid, but, regaining her health, was active in benevolent work, and for many years treasurer of the Brooklyn Industrial School and Home for Destitute Children. She died August 22, 1882. Mr. Hulbert married (second) on October 16, 1884, Fannie Dwig Bigelow, daughter of Asa Bigelow, Jr., of Brooklyn. Children of Henry Carlton Hulbert: 1. Susie Cooley, married, in 1879, Joseph H. Sutphin 2. Carolyn Beardsley, married in 1893, Charles Franklin Bassett. | Hulbert, Henry Carlton (I06034)
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| 3482 | HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND PULASKI COUNTIES 1883 ILLINOIS William F. Longley, retired farmer, P.O Cobden, was born in Hawley, Mass., August 6, 1814, and is a son of Edmond and Olive (Field) Longley. He was one of three brothers, all of whom served in the war of 1812, and their father, Edmond Longley, was a Revolutionary soldier. He moved to Hawley, Mass., when a young man, and lived there until his death, which occurred at the age of ninety-six years. He raised a family, all of whom settled within a mile of the old homestead. They were of the old Plymouth stock of Longleys. Our subject remained in Massachusetts until twenty-one years of age, receiving his education there mostly, and in 1835 going to Ohio for the purpose of taking a full course at Oberlin College; but his eyesight failed and he was compelled to forego it, and after teaching a couple of terms in Ohio he returned to Massachusetts and taught there for a term. Engaged in the fall of 1837 in general merchandising in the town of Hawley, in partnership with his brother Freeman. He was appointed Postmaster at Hawley, Mass., March 3, 1838, an office he held about six years, being all the time in business there. He sold out and removed to Albany, N.Y., and three or four years later to Sterling, N.Y., and after several changes of business he was again appointed Postmaster, April 27, 1849, at Sterling, N.Y., which he held for four years. His father's age and feebleness called him home, and he sold out his mercantile business and returned, where, for one and a half years he carried on the farm. His father dying, he went to Wisconsin and there bought a farm, remaining on it for eleven years. In January, 1866, he came to this county and settled on a farm. He and Mr. Linnell went into partnership in fruit-raising. This was continued, with some changes, until 1879, when Mr. L's health failed, and he took his present place as Assistant Cashier in the bank of Mr. Linnell, and Assistant Postmaster of Cobden. Mr. Longley was married in Massachusetts, December 5, 1838, to Miss Lydia S. Bassett, a daughter of Thomas Bassett. She was born in Ashfield, Mass., October 19, 1820. She is the mother of four children, all of whom are living - Julia Ellen, now Mrs. David D. Le Pawnee City, Neb., Isabella, now Mrs. L.T. Linnell, of Cobden; Fannie S., now Mrs. Herbert Dwinnell, of Wisconsin, and William E., living in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. L. are members of the Presbyterian Church of Cobden. In politics, he was a Whig, but is now identified with the Republican party. | Longley, William Ferguson (I05707)
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| 3483 | History of Allen County, Ohio (Warner, Beers & Co. 188 Bath Township Walter Edgecomb, farmer, P.O. Beaver Dam, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, August 6, 1819, son of Uriah and Betsey (Doud) Edgecomb, nativ Connecticut, who settled in Bath Township, this county, in 1832, locating on the farm now occupied by John Blaine, which they cleared and improved. They had a family of thirteen children: Uriah (deceased), Marilla (wife of Josiah DeLong), Ezra (deceased), Lansil (deceased), Clarinda (deceased), Rober Walter, Lydia (deceased), Amy (deceased), Ann (wife of Elisha C. Pangle Marquis, Sarah (wife of Lewis Bassitt) and an infant son (deceased). Uriah Edgecomb afterward purchased the place now known as the Hiram Protsman farm, where he resided up to 1857, when he removed to Richland Township, this county, and died on the farm now owned by his son, Marquis, in 1861, at the age of seventy-four years. Our subject was in his thirteenth year when his parents settled in Bath Township. He received a limited education in the district schools of his time, and when eighteen years of age started in life for himself, working on a farm by the day and month until he was twenty-one. He was married November 18, 1840, to Laura, daughter of Samuel and Elsie (Lewis) Bassitt, who settled in Bath Township in 1836, and by this union there were eleven children: Ann E. (wife of Reuben White), James (deceased), and infant daughter (deceased), Lewis A. (killed at the Battle of Atlanta, Ga., July 21, 1864), Loretta (wife of Hiram Barber), Sarah E. (wife of S. Philips), Samuel S. (deceased), and Lansil. After his marriage, our subject engaged in farming on a rented farm. He has owned two farms besides the one he now occupies, clearing and improving a part of both. In 1856 he located on his present farm, all of which he has cleared and improved, and where he has resided ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Edgecomb are members of the Disciples Church. He filled the office of trustee for many years, and held several other minor offices in the township. Our subject is one of the leading farmers of Bath. In politics he is a Republican. | Edgecomb, Walter (I07610)
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| 3484 | History of Anderson County, Texas Harry E. Bassett Jr. Harry E. Bassett Jr., County Clerk of Anderson County, is one of our most exemplary and popular young men. Born in Palestine, July 11, 1901, educated in the public school here, his entire life has been spent here. His daily walk has been an open book to his constituents, who last election paid him the high compliment of electing him to the important office he now fills. Quiet, unassuming, modest, Harry Bassett yet has the self-confidence required to succeed in any undertaking. His previous occupation, machinist for the I. & G.N. Railway, would seem to have afforded every opportunity for preparation for his present work; for, step into his busy office at the Court House and see if you doubt his ability to carry on the new job! You will find his large force of clerks working with the precision of clock work, whi Harry, himself, though the busiest of the group, it may be, is ever ready, with a smile and an air utterly unhurried and unworried, to give your affairs his undivided attention. Mr. Bassett comes of pioneer stock, his maternal grandparents, "Uncle Billie" and "Aunt Charity" Gore having been amongst the early settle Anderson County. Born and reared in Anderson County, South Carolina, they were among those settlers who established their homes in Brushy Creek in 1873. The tale of their travels from South Carolina to Texas in the wagon train, with a large number of other families, would make another epic such as Emerson Hough depicted in that classic of pioneering, "The Covered Wagon." Mr. Bassett's paternal grandparents, John F. and Elizabeth Bassett, were reared in Covington, Kentucky. They came to Palestine in the early days of the Railroad. Mr. John F., worked for the Railroad as a machinist. Harry Bassett's parents are Harry E. Bassett, Sr., of Palestine, who was born at Newcastle, Kentucky, and Charlie Emeline (Gore) Bassett, who was born near Blackfoot, in Anderson County. | Bassett, Harry E. Jr. (I20210)
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| 3485 | History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts 1890, New York, edited by Simeon L. Deyo John F. Bassett, son of John A. and grandson of Josiah Bassett, was born in 1856. He has been a carpenter for the Old Colony Railroad Company for two years. He was married in 1878, to Deborah, daughter of Carmi H. and Deborah Ann (Bassett) Nichols, who died in 1862. They have one daughter, Sarah J. Mr. Nichols married for his second wife Susan S., daughter of Josiah Bassett, Jr. Mr. Nichols went to sea until 1872. Since 1873 he was been carpenter for the Old Colony Rail road Company. | Bassett, John Freeman (I13081)
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| 3486 | HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY (OXFORD) Benjamin Bassett Davis, mayor of Oxford, is a native of Edgartown, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and was born on the 4th of April, 1816. His parents were Zadock and Elizabeth Bassett Davis. He was the third born of a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters, only three of whom are now living. When Benjamin was three years of age the parents, with their family, emigrated to the State of Ohio, and settled on a farm, near the present hamlet of Warsaw, some five miles west of Cincinnati. Here the elder Davis for a few years carried on a small tannery, but relinquished this calling and gave his attention more fully to the cultivation of his farm. In early life Mayor Davis had little, if any, advantages of school education, but was of an active temperament and a quick, discriminating mind. As he came to manhood, while busy assisting his father in the care of the farm, the latter was removed by death, which event occurred in August, 1834. The son remained on the farm with the mother and the rest of the family for several years thereafter. On attaining his majority, he espoused the politics of the Whigs, and for many years was active in the local interests of that party. He was for some nine years made one of the justices of t peace in the township where he resided. August 6, 1836, he was married to Miss Rhoda Cullom, who bore him seven sons and one daughter. In 1861 Mr. Davis took up his residence in the city of Cincinnati, and having early espoused the cause of the Republican party when it was organized, he was favored by an appointment to the position of chief local agent in the post-office bla department of the West, which was then located at Cincinnati. This position he held with honor to himself and to the interests of the department for over a year, when, the office being transferred to Buffalo, New York, he resigned his position and accepted an appointment as superintendent of the local city mail distribution, a position he held for nearly three years. While residing in Cincinnati, January 23, 1865, he lost his wife by death. On the 21st of February, 1867, he was married to Mrs. Sarah (Gath) Horsefall, then of the city. In March, 1868, Mr. Davis moved with his family to Oxford, Ohio, which place has continued to be his residence since that date. Not long after becoming a resident the community saw fit to elect him to the highest honor which, as a municipality, it was in their power to bestow, and with so great an acceptance have the responsible and often arduous and unpleasant duties of the office of mayor been administered, that he has been repeatedly re-elected, usually by large majorities, marking no special party distinctions nor lines, so that his continued term of service in this capacity is now some thirteen years, marked by only one interim of about three months. Mr. Davis was not permitted for many years to enjoy the companionship of his wife, Sarah, as she died on the 14th of May, 1871. On February 21, 1872, he was again married, choosing for his third and present wife, Mrs. Elizabeth (Wright) Douglass. Of the children born to the first Mrs. Davis four sons and a daughter are still living. One of the deceased, Carlos, served as a volunteer in the late war with much honor and credit, being mustered out of the service at Columbus at the close, after some three years' enlistment. Mr. Davis has for many years been a firm believer in the doctrines of the Universalists, and is warm identified with this organization in Oxford. He is of a naturally quiet, reflective turn of mind and has those qualities which are needful to make him a good magistrate and officer of justice. In addition to his official duties, Mayor Davis is now the proprietor of the "Girard House", on the corner of High and Poplar Streets, which has recently been remodeled and the entire house refurnished, making it now one of the most desirable tarrying places for the traveler or pleasant home for the regular boarder, which can be found in the county. Wilson, S., the oldest son, is now teaching in Washington, Indiana. Albert G. is in the TIMES STAR office of Cincinnati. Merrill B., Alexis B., and Darwin F. are residents of Cincinnati also. Elizabeth, the daughter, now Mrs. I.F. Williams, is a skilled music teacher just west of Cincinnati. | Davis, Benjamin (I01612)
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| 3487 | HISTORY OF CHICAGO BY A.T. ANDREAS (1885) Lemuel Conant Grosvenor, M.D., was born at Paxton, Mass., in 1833, and is the eldest son of Deacon Silas N. and Mary A. Grosvenor. He entered Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., when quite young, and later the high school in Worcester, where he remained four years. He then pursued a course of normal studies under private tutors, and entered the profession of teaching, in which he attained distinction, being for nearly seven years master of the old Mather School in Dorchester, now a part of Boston. During these years the leisure moments were improved in laying broad and deep the foundations of his chosen profession and life-work. To carry out his cherished plans, he yielded the desk of the school-room for the duties of the physician's office. He entered with characteristic diligence and enthusiasm upon the curriculum of studies necessary to the completion of his medical course, and, in due time, graduated with honor from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, in 1864. The year following, he married Miss Ellen M. Prouty, of Dorchester, Mass., who, after nine years of affectionate companionship and helpful devotion, was called to her rest above. Three years later he married Miss N. Josephine Bassett, of Taunton, Mass., who is now sharing with him the duties of a happy household, and whose education and Christian culture have since been so helpful to him in realizing some of his cherished plans. The doctor is the father of eight children, five of whom are now living. He first settled in Peoria, Ill, where he remained three years, removing to Galesburg, Ill., in 1867, and thence to Chicago, in 1870. In the great fire he was the only physician left on the North Side whose home was not destroyed, the fire coming within three doors of his residence. During the weeks and months succeeding, he was indefatigable in his professional work with the sick and crippled in the churches, school-houses, police-stations and open prairie. Dr. Grosvenor is professor of sanitary science in the Chicago Homeopathic College, and was formerly lecturer on anatomy and morbid anatomy in Hahnemann College. He is president of the Chicago Academy of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, president of the American Paedological Society, and member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He is a member of the Lincoln Park Congregational Church, and was formerly president of its Board of Trustees. He is also member of the Congregational Club of this city. As a writer the doctor is clear and concise, is a contributor to medical and educational journals, and author of "Infant Hygiene" and "How to Dress our Babies". He is an easy, graceful speaker, a fluent, inspiring lecturer, and a genial companion in his family and with his many friends and admiring students. His popular lectures on "Our Boys", "Our Girls," "Home Sanitation," etc., etc, have been well received, and are accomplishing great good. | Grosvenor, Lemuel Conant M.D. (I09797)
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| 3488 | History of Chicago, Volume II From 1857 until the Fire of 187 By A.T. Andreas (1885) Medical Supplies Charles Truax & Co. - This firm is the successor of the firm of G. Truax & Son, which was established in 1878, at Maguoketa, Iowa. The idea as at first conceived, and which has since been so successfully carried out, was to start a physicians' supply store, to furnish practicing physicians everything needed in their profession at wholesale prices, whether in the line of the purest and most carefully compounded drugs, or anything in the way of surgical instruments, electric apparatus, etc. After a stay of two years in Maquoketa, the business had increased to such proportions that it was thought advisable to remove to a larger and more central point, and accordingly a change was made to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At that time Charles Truax succeeded to the business, conducting it alone for two years. He then associated with him, as a partner, C.W. Bassett, who is still connected with the firm, the name and sty which has since been Charles Truax & Co. In 1884, it was again found necessary to remove, and this time the change was made to Chicago, and No. 81 Randolph Street, from which they are better able to meet the demands of a trade which, in five years, has increased nearly twenty-fold. This statement is verified by Mr. Truax, who says, that he and one clerk, during his first year in business, easily attended to all the transactions of the house, while the firm now employs twenty-two persons, and has five salesmen on the road. Thus it will be seen that, though new-comers here, they have brought to Chicago an establishment of great commercial importance. Charles Truax was born at Milton, Wis. in 1852. His father, Galloway Truax, came to Illinois in 1957, and settled in Genoa, DeKalb Co., and, in 1967 removed to Maquoketa, Iowa. Here his son Charles, at the age of sixteen, entered the retail drug store of his father as a clerk, continuing in that position up to 1873, when, on account of ill-health, he went to Colorad spending there two years in the study of geology, having collected what is now one of the finest private collections of minerals and fossils in this country. In 1875, returning to Maquoketa, Iowa, he became associated as a partne under the firm name of G. Truax & Son, and, in 1878, established the present business. Mr. Truax was married to Mary C. Wolff, daughter of P.A. Wolff, of Maquoketa, Iowa. They have two children, Edith and Ruth. C.W. Bassett was born at Three Rivers, Mich., in 1844. At the breaking out of the Rebellion, he entered the Army as hospital steward of the 25 Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and served as such until the close of the War. He then became employed as a clerk in a general merchandise store in Mattawan, Mich., and two years afterward engaged in that business on his own account, which he continued up to 1877. He then went to Saguache, Colo., and established a general merchandise business, under the firm name of Peyton & Bassett, which continued up to 1879, when Mr. Bassett sold out his interest, and went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as cashier of the Star Wagon Company, a position he held up to 1882, when he became a member of the firm of Charles Truax & CO. He married Mary A. Ayres, daughter of J.S. Ayres, M.D., of Kalamazoo, Mich. | Bassett, Charles Wallace (I07130)
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| 3489 | HISTORY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO (189 Colonel E. Bassett Langdon was born February 24, 1827, in what is now Linwood, a village on the Little Miami railroad, adjoining the corporation of Cincinnati. His father, Rev. Oliver Langdon, died in September, 1828. Bassett Langdon spent his boyhood on the farm where he was born, but he displayed such a fondness for intellectual pursuits that his mother often said of him, "Bassett was never intended for a farmer." He attended the public school in the neighborhood for a short time, and was then sent to Woodward College in Cincinnati, where he spent three years. After this he entered Miami University, where he remained two years, but did not graduate. He then returned to the farm, and notwithstanding his mother's prediction, remained in charge of it until he was twenty-five years of age, when he was placed on the Democratic ticket for a member of the Legislature, and was elected. He was twice re-elected to the same office, and afterward served one term as Senator from Hamilton county. During the leisure hours of his legislative career, he pursued the study of law, and at its close was prepared by Hon. William S. Groesbeck for admission to the Bar, entered upon the practice of his profession, and was engaged therein at the breaking out of the Rebellion. Upon the organization of the First Ohio Infantry for three year service, he was commissioned its major, and served in this capacity in all the movements of the regiment until after the evacuation of Corinth, in 186 when, at the urgent request of Gen. A.M. McCook, he accepted the position of inspector-general upon McCook's staff. After the battles of Perryville and Stone River, upon the promotion of Col. Parrott to the command of the brigade, Lieut. Col. Langdon (he was promoted to Lieutenant-colonel June 2, 1862 returned to the command of his regiment, which he retained through the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He was mustered out with his regiment, and was afterward brevetted brigadier-general "for gallant and meritorious services at the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Mission Ridge," to date from march 13, 1865. After the war he received the appointment of assessor of Internal Revenue in the First District of Ohio. His nomination was opposed, and it was not until the third effort that it was confirmed by the Senate. This opposition embittered the last days of his life. He held the office at the time of his death, May 30, 186 This is a brief record of his life of forty years. Of his character no word of reproach was ever spoken. It is related of him that no act of unkindness or of disobedience ever pained the heart of his widowed mother. That he possessed a tender and thoughtful regard for the members of his household, and that he was actuated by the highest motives in entering the services of his country, may be seen by this extract from a private letter written to his sisters, but sent to his brother, with directions to give it to them only in case he was killed in the war. It is dated at Camp Wood, near Munfordville, Ky., December 18, 1861. "But the realities of war are around me, and I am not insensitive to its danger, and have thought over the whole subject again and again. If I felt sure that death would be the only portion I should reap from this war, I should not the less be satisfied and even glad that I had taken up arms in defense of my country in the hour of her extreme need. I could not feel that I had performed my duty to that country, which, in peaceful times, has honored and trusted me, nor the parents who gave me birth - to you who live now - nor to those who are to come after all of us shall have passed the dread trial that comes but once, but must come to all, if I had done otherwise than I have in this matter." As a soldier Col. Langdon was conspicuous for his bravery. At Pittsburg Landing his commanding form made him a mark for the enemy's sharpshooters. One of their balls tore his hat from his head, and knocked him from his horse. At Perryville and at Stone River, while acting as a sta officer for Gen. McCook, his horse was shot under him, and he was specially mentioned for gallant conduct at Mission Ridge, where, notwithstanding, he received an almost mortal wound, he still kept with his men, and was among the first within the enemy's works. From this wound he never fully recovered, the shock to his system having induced an affection of the heart. His death, though not unexpected, was sudden. On the morning of May 30, 1867, he rose early; his breakfast was brought to him by his devoted sisters, but it was not touched. Near dinner-time one of them brought him some mulled wine as a reviving drink. On rising to receive it his head fell forward, and when it was lifted by his sister's hand life had passed away. To the number of brave men who yielded their lives at Mission Ridge was added one more, in the person of E. Bassett Langdon, who as truly died for his country as if he had fallen in that historic charge. - Whitelaw Reid | Langdon, Colonel E. Bassett (I05955)
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| 3490 | HISTORY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO (189 Rev. Langdon was twice married. His first wife was Nancy Brown, daughter of William Brown, of Stamford, Conn., and six children were born to this union; Nancy B.; Solomon, who was a well and favorably known business man of Cincinnati, and the founder of the Langdon Bakery, now known as the Langdon Branch of the U.S. Baking Company, which is now in charge of his only son, Perin Langdon; Mary B.; Dr. Oliver M., a well-known physician, who was the first superintendant of Longview Asylum, occupying that position for ten years (he served in the Mexican war under Col. Brough in the First Ohio Regiment, doing duty as a surgeon); Caroline, and Ruth L., of whom the last named, Mrs. Punshon, is the only survivor. Mr. Landgon's second wife was Catherine West Bassett, daughter of Elisha Bassett, of Martha's Vineyar Mass.; three children were the result of this marriage; Eunice M.; Col. E. Bassett, and Catherine E. The daughters reside on the old homestead, which is still in possession of the Langdon family. Col. E. Bassett received a wound while in the service of his country from which he finally died. Mention of him is given in the following sketch from the pen of Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, and a portrait is also inserted through the generosity of his beloved sisters, as a token of respect for their brave brother and soldier. | Langdon, Rev. Oliver (I02884)
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| 3491 | History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1879) Dover Township (Page 437) Moses Hall, of Lee, Massachusetts, bought twenty-one hundred acres of land in Dover in 1810, and in the same year removed with his twelve children to Ashtabula, Ohio. Of the Dover tract, he gave to each of his seven sons one hundred acres, and to each of his five daughters fifty acres. Two of his sons, Barnabas and James, and one of his daughters, with her husband, Nathan Bassett, settled in Dover in 1811. Barnabas Hall located on lot sixty-two, now occupied by his son Charles, and remained there till his death. James settled upon lot fifty-one, but in 1821 returned to Ashtabula, where he has since resided, having in July, 1879, reached his eighty-eighth year. Nathan Bassett occupied lot eighty-two. He had a turning-lathe, a manufactured chairs, and was also known far and near as a great hunter and manager of bees. He was killed by lightning while at work in his barn in 1842. Nancy, another daughter of Moses Hall, married David Ingersoll, and in 1820 they settled in Dover upon lot thirty-seven....... (Page 438) The first white child born in the township was Angelina, daughter of Asahel Porter. The date of her birth was April 1, 181 claimed that Vesta, daughter of Nathan Bassett, was the first born, but the best available evidence shows the date of her birth to have been June 1 1812..... | Hall, Moses (I06215)
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| 3492 | History of DeKalb County, Indiana Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885 J.F. Maxson, of the firm of Bassett & Maxson, jewelers, Waterlo Ind., is a native of Greenbush, neary Albany, N.Y., born April 4, 1832, a son of Jehu J. and Luna (Tompkins) Maxson, his father of Irish and his mother of Scotch descent. In 1836 his parents moved to Jackson County, Mich., and entered a farm from the Government. His mother died in August, 1839. Of her seven children six are living. One son, Walter, was killed while in the service of his country in the war of the Rebellion. J.F. Maxson was reared on a pioneer farm, at a time when Indians and wild animals infested the country. When twenty-one years of age he went to Coldwater, Mich., and there learned the jeweler's trade of C.H. Thompson. While there he made the acquaintance of Charles Bassett, who was a fellow-apprentice, and after completing their trade, in 1859, together they came to Waterloo, Ind., and opened a store, at that time the only one of the kind in the place. They have the largest jewelry store in the county, and keep a complete stock of everything in their line. Their shrewd business qualities, combined with their thorough knowledge of their trade, has gained for them a high position among the business men of the county. Mr. Maxson was married in 1863 to Martha J., daughter of James and Mary Maybee, of Lockport, N.Y. They have four children -- Mattie, John C., Agnes and Earl H. Mr. Maxson cast his first presidential vote for Jo Fremont, and has since been a strong advocate of Republican principles. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren church. | Maxson, J. F. (I14557)
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| 3493 | History of DeKalb County, Indiana (1885) Joseph Straub is of German Ancestry. He came from Marion County, Ohio, in 1835, with his wife and three children and settled in Butler Township, De Kalb Co., Ind., where he bought a half section of land from the Government, of which he cleared about forty acres. In 1842 he sold his land and removed to Carroll County, where he farmed five years, and in 1847 returned to this county, where he bought a quarter section, and here he resided till his death, which occurred Dec. 25, 1860, on his fifty-ninth birthday. His wife survived till June, 1881, when she died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L.S. Bassett, which adjoins the old homestead. Eight children were born to them - Henry, farming in Dakota; Susan (deceased); Simon Peter, who lives on the homestead farm; Jacob, a Universalist minister; Margaret Ann, Maria, Barbara Elizabeth, wife of L.S. Bassett of Butler Township, and Solomon W., residing at Woodlawn Park, near Chicago. Rev. Jacob Straub entered the ministry in 1860 and has become a prominent minister of the Universalist denomination. He has preached at Dowagiac, Mich., five years; Lansing, Mich., seven years; Muskegon, Mich., four years. He then engaged in literary pursuits for two years, livi Chicago and preaching irregularly, and for the past seven years he has been pastor at Marseilles, Ill. He is the author of "Consolations of Science which has received favorable notice from scientific and religious thinkers in Europe and America. He intends to devote his future years to literary pursuits. Mary Ann Straub has been in the Universalist ministry five years, filling the pulpit at Castalia, Iowa, for three years. She now resid Woodlawn Park, Ill. She has composed many Sunday-school hymns and has also written an unpublished work for women. | Stroop, Joseph (I09959)
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| 3494 | History of Erie County, Town of Alden (1884) Jerry Farnsworth, of Alden village, was born in Williamstown, Orange county, Vermont, June 2, 1801, and remained in the State during his ear life, working on his father's farm a greater part of each year, and attending school during the inclement weather of the winter. His father removed to Alden in 1822, and settled on the farm where Jerry now lives. This was lot seventeen, range five of the Holland Purchase, at that time in the town of Clarence, and covered the greater portion of the present site of Alden village. In November, 1827, Mr. Farnsworth was united in marriage with Eliza, daughter of David Bassett, who moved from Connecticut to Oneida county, N.Y., where he resided when the above named marriage took place in Alden. Mrs. Farnsworth was an earnest Christian woman and during the last twenty years of her life a great sufferer. She died September 29, 1857, aged forty-eight years, nine months and ten days, and much lamented by all who knew her, as her life had been most exemplary, and her charitableness to others worthy of the name she bore. She left one son - George D., who controls her father's farm, and who was married in February, 1861, to Sarah Tyler, by whom he became the father of two children, both now dead. In November, 1858, Mr. Farnsworth was again married to Laura Bassett, half-sister of his former wife. He has always avoided public office, and aside from some position held on the school board, or as trustee of his church, has lived a retired life, free from publicity, and has strictly attended to his business as a farmer. He became a member of the Presbyterian Church about the year 1832, and for many years was an official of that society. He formerly possessed some ability as a singer, and for over sixty years was a member of some church choir both in this State and in Vermont. In 1859 he built his new house and now lives surrounded with every convenience in lif His father, Thomas Farnsworth, and wife, Miss Ladd, were active members of the Presbyterian Church, and the former an official of that society many years before his death, which occurred April 13, 1852, at the age of eighty- four. He made his home with his son Jerry from 1840 until his death which was occasioned by a sudden stroke of paralysis, which though a hale and hearty man of younger years than he really was, he survived only thirty-six hours. His wife, Mrs. Farnsworth, died October 31, 1864, at the advanced age of ninety- three years, nine months and nineteen days, and as though in a peaceful sweet sleep. | Farnsworth, Jerry (I04729)
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| 3495 | History of Fairfield County, Connecticut (1881) D. Hamilton Hurd Harvey Bassett Rumsey Harvey Bassett Rumsey was born in Monticello, Sullivan Co., N.Y. June 11 1832. His father, Lewis Rumsey, also a native of Monticello, was a farmer by occupation, was a Whig in politics, as were his ancestors before him, and was prominent in the politics of his town and county. He was married at the age of twenty-five to Nancy Bassett, of his town, but who was a native of Washington Co., N.Y. Their children were Harvey B. and S. Louisa. The early life of our subject was spent in New York, assisting his father and attending school. He enjoyed educational advantages of the common school and academy, leaving the latter institution at the age of nineteen to go to the Sacramento Valley under the following circumstances: His mother's youngest brother went to California among the earliest pioneers to that State. Losing his health in the mines, he was advised to cross the plains to recover it. He went to New Orleans, purchasing there four hundred and fifty head of cattle and about twenty horses. With these he started overla California. Losing his foreman by drowning, he wrote to his nephew's parents asking that he be allowed to go by steamer and meet him at Sacrament assist him on his arrival there with the stock. The nephew, Harvey B., nothing loath, thus found himself, at a very tender age, in the then Eldorado of the world. He remained with his uncle two and a half years, returning only when his presence was imperatively demanded by the condition of affairs at home, caused by his father's death, which had occurred eighteen months before. During his uncle's mining career, he and a partner took from a place called Rattlesnake Bar eighty thousand dollars within a month. Mr. Rumsey resided with his mother until one year after his marriage, after his return from California, when he removed to Redding. He was married Jan. 10, 1867, to Adeline Briggs, daughter of George and Emeline Briggs, of Sherman. Mr. Briggs was a large farmer, and one of the most successful raisers and feede cattle in Connecticut. The children of Mr. Rumsey have been Emma and Louie C. Mr. Rumsey resides on what was formerly known as the Dudley Place, a farm of two hundred and sixty-six acres, and devotes himself to cattle-raising, feeding, and farming, also dealing in real estate. He is Republican in politics, and has represented Redding in the Legislature since taking up his residence in the town. | Rumsey, Harvey Bassett (I06562)
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| 3496 | History of Fillmore County, Minnesota Volume II H.C. Cooper Jr. & Co. (1912) Henry S. Bassett was born April 21, 1841, in Ingersoll, Oxford, Canada West. His father, Gilbert Bingham Oscar Bassett, was born in Middlebury, Vermont, February 19, 1817, and died June 8, 1878, in Carimona, Fillmore County, Minnesota. He was a citizen and subject of the United States at the time of his son's birth. Gilbert Bassett's parents, Elnathan Bassett and Lydia Bassett, were both born in New England of colonial and revolutionary stock. Elnathan's father was a soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and himself a soldier in the United States Army in the War of 1812. Lydia Bassett was the daughter of Daniel A. Buck, of Vermont, who when a mere boy in the Continental Army at the battle of Bennington lost his arm. He was afterwards for many years congressman from that stat Mary Smith Bassett, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in Ancaster, Canada West, August 1, 1816, and died July 29, 1911, at Washtucna, Wash. Her father, Samuel Smith, was born in New Hampshire and was a soldier in the regular army during the War of 1812. Her mother, Luvia Graves Smith was born in the state of New York. The family of Gilbert and Mary Bassett consisted of six boys and four girls, of whom Henry was the thi eldest child. Only four of this family are now living, who in the order of their ages are Henry S. Bassett, of Preston, Minn.; George W. Basset Washtucna, Wash.; Gilbert B.O. Bassett, of Helena, Mont.; and Samuel S. Bassett, of Spokane, Wash. George married Alice C. Lancaster; Gilbert, Sarah Andrews, and Samuel, Kate Hopp. Caroline A. Bassett, one of the daughters of the family, married John B. Palmer. She died in Carimona, February 9, 1893, leaving surviving her husband and four children, C.H. Palmer, of Benchland, Mont., E. L. Palmer, of Preston, Minn.; Virginia Palmer, of Ostrander, Minn., and Fannie Vailer, of Fresno, Cal. Mr. J.B. Palmer and his daughter are now residing in Ostrander, Minn. Mary Bassett, the youngest daughter, marri William Harkness, of Walla Walla, Wash. She died in 1900 at Spokane in that state, leaving surviving her husband and four children, William Charles, Mary and Marjorie Harkness. Gilbert and Mary Bassett, with their family, then consisting of Henry and two daughters, moved from Canada West in 1844 and settled in Scott county in the territory of Iowa. At that time there was no railway westward out of Chicago and from that point the family made the journey to Rock Island, Ill., by state and team. The country at that time was new, and few white inhabitants, and these as a general thing cultivated but a few acres, made their own clothing and depended for a living principally upon wild game, of which there was an abundance. many Indians were still in the country. There was a trading post or so but no real stores, or mills, or roads in the country and no schools or churches. It was then the western frontier of the States. Though Gilbert Bassett was a printer by trade, he never worked at that business while living in Iowa, but during that time was principally engaged in farming and in mercantile business and a portion of the time in operating a daily line of four and six horse stages from Dubuque west to Independence in that state, for at a time, 1850-52, there was no railway running west from Dubuque. In 1853 he with his son Henry and a daughter came to Minnesota, then a territory, to look up a location. Late in December of that year the family started in teams from Delhi, Iowa, for Forestville, in Fillmore county, Minnesota, the place selected for the new home. The family was delay their journey by cold weather and now storms for some time in Burr Oak, Iowa, but finally arrived in Forestville, on January 4, 1854, where a dwelling had been purchased and a store opened by Mr. Bassett. His son, Henry, then thirteen years old, walked and drove the cows on this journey. Forestville was not then platted as a village. Winona and Brownsville in Minnesota a Decorah, Lansing and McGregor in Iowa, were their nearest market place After the family settled in Minnesota, Mr. Bassett continued in the mercantile and farming business. A district school was established in Forestville in 1855 and maintained about half of the time which Henry attended most of the time until December, 1858, when he went to Crawfordsville, Ind., to attend Wabash College, located at that place. Prior to his going to Minnesota he had attended private and district schools to a very limited extent, so when he entered upon his college course his education it may be said was mostly acquired by his study outside of the schools. He had a good knowledge of frontier life, farming and mercantile business as carried on in a new country, and managing and caring for horses and other stock was physically stron active and able to undergo great fatigue and exposure. Desiring to obtain a collegiate education, as above stated, he went to Wabash College, where he took up a regular classical course and studied from January, 1859, to early in May, 1861, when, on account of the Civil War then just under way, he returned to his home in Minnesota, in order that he might obtain his father's consent to enlist in the army. He had tried to enlist in Indiana, but being under age and not having his father's consent, the authorities would not accept him. During the time he was a student at Wabash College he supported himself by his manual labor, cutting cord-wood, digging ditch, sawing wood, or doing whatever other work came to hand. After his return home he was obliged to delay entering the army until August 4, 1862. But in the meantime he aided his father in his business and taught a school of seventy scholars during t winter of 1861 and 1862 in the village of Fillmore. Having helped to raise men enough to form a company he entered the army August 4, 1862. About half of the members of the company were from Fillmore county and half from Houston county. The men rendezvoused at Fort Snelling, where they were organized as Company K in Sixth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, with W.H. Woodward as captain, W.W. Braden, first lieutenant, and H.S. Bassett, second lieutenant. Within a few days after the company was organized and before the different companies composing the regiment could unite, the Indian outbreak on the frontier and the massacre of the white settlers in the western part of the state occurred. Mr. Bassett served with his company in the campaign und General Sibley against the Indians for the relief of Fort Ridgley, the release of the white prisoners and protection of the frontier that year. In 1863 he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and took part that year in the second campaign against the Indians. During that year he was for some time adjutant at Fort Snelling under Colonel Morgan. In the spring of 1864 t regiment was sent south to Helena, Ark., where during most of the summer of that year, Lieutenant Bassett served as assistant provost-marshall of t district of eastern Arkansas. In the winter of 1864 and 1865 his regiment was sent to St. Louis, Mo., where, until February, 1865, it was on duty. In that month it was sent to New Orleans and placed in the Second Brigade of the Second Division of the Sixteenth Army Corps, commanded by Gen. A.J. Smith. Company K, with the regiment in this corps, formed a part of the forces under General Canby in the capture of Spanish Forst, Blakeley and Mobile, and in the campaign against Montgomery, in the spring of 1865. During these campaigns Lieutenant Bassett was in command of his company, its captain being absent on detached service. The company under the command of Lieutenant Bassett returned to the state after the war closed and was mustered out at Fort Snelling, August 19, 1865. Mr. Bassett, after his more than three years' service in the army, was still unwilling to give up his college course. After resting at home for about three months, in January, 1866, he entered the University of Wisconsin and again took up his studies. In May he returned to his home in Minnesota to assist his parents to fit out for their journey to the territory of Montana. His parents and five of their children that month set out from Forestville in teams for Helena, Mont., where they arrived in September, 1866. Henry taught school in the village of Carimona during the fall and winter of 1866 and 1867. In the fall of 1867 he returned to the University of Wisconsin and resumed his studies. A military department had been established in the university, and at the request of the authorities of that institution he organized the students subject to military drill into companies, drew arms and equipment for them from the state and superintended their drilling and training during the four years he remained in the university thereafter. He not only took up and continued his regular classical course of studies in the university at this time, but also the studies of the civil and military engineering departments, and graduated on June 21, 1871, receiving his diploma and degree from each of the three departments. He returned to his home in Fillmore county and in the fall of 1871, upon the Republican ticket, he was elected probate judge of that county. He continued to hold that office by election from January 1, 1872, to January 1, 1882, when he voluntarily declined to be a candidate for re-election and gave his attention wholly to the practice of law, having been admitted to practice at the bar in 1874. July 12, 1882, he married Mrs. Georgiana A. Smith, at the home of her parents, in Blue Earth county, Minnesota. Mrs. Smith, at the time of her marriage with Mr. Bassett, had one son, Everett R. Smith, who continued to live with them until his marriage to Mae O'Brien some years ago, since when he and his wife have lived in their own home adjacent. Mrs. Georgiana A. Bassett, daughter of Rev. R.S. Armstrong, a Congregational minister, was born at Lisbon, St. Lawrence county, N.Y., in 1843, and received her education in the Academy of Potsdam, in that state. She engaged in teaching at the age of seventeen and followed that profession principally until she married Mr. Bassett in 1882. She spent some years in California, crossing the Isthmus of Panama on a pack horse in going to and returning from that country in the early sixties with her husband, Mr. Smith. She and her parents and family came from the state of New York and settled in Minnesota in 1868, where she has resided ever since. Her home has be Preston in Fillmore county since 1879. She was an able and successful teacher, enterprising and public spirited and has taken an active part in all educational enterprises of her village, and other matters for the social and moral betterment of her village and the community. For the last fifteen years and more she has given much of her time to horticulture on the home far where she lives adjacent to the village of Preston, where she has a fine fruit orchard. Mr. Bassett was appointed by Governor Johnson judge of proba Fillmore county, in April, 1907, to fill out the unexpired term of Judge Farrington, who died while holding that office, and served as such probate judge until January 1, 1909. During his residence in Preston he was for ten years a member of the board of education of the high school. He has also served the village as mayor and village attorney. Since December, 1872, he has been engaged in the study and practice of his profession, the law, in the village of Preston. | Bassett, Henry Smith (I07339)
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| 3497 | History of Licking County by N.N. Hill Jr. (1881) p.353 Thomas E. Hayes, private, company B, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio national guard. Enlisted May 2, 1864; discharged January 19, 1865, at Columbus, Ohio. He took part in an engagement at North Mountain Station, July 3, 1864, under command of Major David Thomas; after a fight of about three or four hours was captured with the entire force of officers and men, by rebel General McCausland with a force of several thousand men. He was a prisoner of war at Lynchburgh, Andersonville, Millen, and Savannah from July 3, 1864, to November 25, 1864, at which time he was paroled; and on the following day was given up to the Union fleet, near Fort Pulaski, a mere skeleton, from ill treatment while a prisoner with the rebels. Granville, Ohio. | Hayes, Thomas Elihu (I05559)
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| 3498 | History of Licking County, Ohio (1881) p.618 Excerpts from Avery Family .... Christopher was born December 10, 1818, and was married in December, 1829, to Susan Lane. She died in 1832. They had one son, W. H. Avery, who served as a captain in the late war. He married his second wife, Achsah Hayes, in May, 1835. She died in 1870. They had a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters, Hellen, Hattie, Allen, Sylveste Rosa, Thomas, Cora and Frank. His third wife was Cyntha Gilbert, to whom he was married in 1875. | Avery, Christopher (I05567)
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| 3499 | History of McHenry County, Illinois, page 882 Amos D. Whiting was born in Johnson, Lamoille Co., Vt., July 27, 1824, a son of Zachariah and Lucinda (Dodge) Whiting, his father a native of Connecticut, and his mother of Vermont. His father died in 1862, aged seventy- two years. He was a veteran of the war of 1812. His mother died in 1872, aged seventy-two years. His grandfather, Nathan Whiting, was a native of Connecticut, of Scotch descent. His maternal grandfather was a native of New Hampshire, of English descent, and the father of seven children - Danie Amos, Jonathan, Solomon, Lucinda, Sarah and ???. In the spring of 1847 Mr. Whiting came to Illinois, and worked by the month for J.W. Smith a year and a half. He then ran a peddler's wagon till the spring of 1850, when, in company with J.W. Smith, Joshua Chase and Thomas Heath, he started for California, reaching the end of their journey the first of August. Mr. Whiting remained in California nearly ten years, working in the mines, running a hotel, and carrying on a mercantile business. He finally lost his hotel, which cost him $8,000, and then returned to Illinois, and settled in McHenry, remaining there four or five years, when he bought the farm of 280 acres where he now lives. Mr. Whiting was married March 21, 1860, to Lois, daughter of George and Achsah Bassett, natives of Lamoille County, Vt., where the mother died in 1871, aged fifty years, and the father in 1877, aged sixty-two years. Mrs. Whiting was born Nov. 10, 1843. To Mr. and Mrs. Whiting have been born five children - Cynthia, William E., Belle, Lois and Lizzie. Politically Mr. Whiti Democrat. He has been an influential man in the township, and has held several of its offices. | Whiting, Amos D. (I13944)
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| 3500 | History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin (1911) page 6 Abraham, Henry W., M.D. 1866 - Abraham, Henry W., M.D., president of the Fox River Valley Medical Society, and one of the leading members of the Outagamie county medical profession, is engaged in a general practice in Appleton with office at No. 572 Oneida street. Dr. Abraham is a native of Germany, born August 1, 1866, a son of William and Hannah Abraham, who came from the Fatherland in 1870 and settled in Wausau, Wisconsin. William Abraham, who has been a soldier in the German army, was a brickmaker by trade and had a plant in Wausau, where he died in 1891, his widow surviving until 1898. They had a family of six daughters and three sons, of whom one is deceased. Henry W. Abraham attended the public schools of Wausau, and in 1891 graduated from Lawrence College. After one year spent in Vienna he began to read medicine and then entered Rush Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1898. He immediately came to Appleton, where he engaged in a general practice, and here he has continued to the present time. He is a member of the Wisconsin State Board of Medical Examiners and holds membership in the County, State and National medical organizations, is president of the Fox River Valley Medical Society, is connected with the Theta Phi college fraternity, and is also a member of the Masons. Dr. Abraham is possessed of a kind, sympathetic nature, and the natural taste for the various branches of the medical profession that makes the ideal physician. He has built up a large and lucrative practice among the leading residents of Appleton, and has a host of friends both in and out of his profession. Dr. Abraham in politics is an independent voter, recognizing no party lines. He and Mrs. Abraham are members of the Congregational Church. In 1899 Dr. Abraham was united in marriage with Nellie Bassett, of Berlin, Wisconsin, a graduate of Lawrence College, and to this union there has been born one daughter, Margaret, aged eight years. | Abraham, Henry W. (I11289)
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