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3551 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)
 
3552 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)
 
3553 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)
 
3554 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)
 
3555 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)
 
3556 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)
 
3557 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)
 
3558 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)
 
3559 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)
 
3560 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)
 
3561 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)
 
3562 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)
 
3563 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)
 
3564 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)
 
3565 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)
 
3566 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)
 
3567 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)
 
3568 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)
 
3569 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)
 
3570 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)
 
3571 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)
 
3572 HISTORY OF WESTERN NEW YORK

(II) Charles L., son of William R. Bassett, was born in Kendall, New
York, July 20, 1836, died at La Porte, Indiana, June 24, 1907. He was educated
in the public schools of Kendall, and remained with his father engag
farming until his marriage. He then bought a small farm which he cultivated
for a short time, then sold and went west. He was a resident of Chicago,
Illinois, until 1877, then located at La Porte, Indiana, engaged in farming.
Later he was employed in the drug business in La Porte, which he follow
until his death. He was a Democrat in politics, and a Universalist in
religious faith. He married, December 22, 1859, Laura J. Clark, born July 11,
1839, died May 18, 1911, daughter of William L. and Cornelia C. (Stewar
Clark, of Kendall. She was a member of the Universalist church of Chicago, and
a helpful, liberal worker among the poor. Children: Blanche, born January 21,
1861, died December 28, 1899: William L., of whom further.



Mt. Albion Cemetery, Route 31, Town of Albion, Orleans County, New Yo

Bassett, Charles Lee 1836 Mar. 3, 1907 Husband of Laura Louise
Bassett, James D. 1868 Aug. 28, 1890 Albion, NY Son of John
Bassett, Laura Louise 1839 May 25, 1911 Wife of Charles Lee
Bassett, William Lee 1865 Mar. 6, 1913 Son of Charles Lee & Laura Louise 		Bassett, Charles Lee (I12541)
 
3573 HISTORY OF WESTERN NEW YORK

(III) William L., only son of Charles L. Bassett, was born in Kendall,
New York, September 6, 1865. He was educated in the public school and at La
Porte Business College. On completing his school years he went west, and for a
time was engaged in the lumber business in Kansas. He returned to La Porte,
and for a few years was in charge of a farm there. He again went west and was
engaged in the lumber business at Hutchinson, Kansas, then again to La Porte,
then Butte, Montana, then Bedford, Indiana, then was for a number of years in
Ohio. He finally returned to his native state, where he cultivated a large
farm in Orleans county. He is a Democrat in politics and unmarried. 		Bassett, William Lee (I12554)
 
3574 History of Woodbury and Plymouth Counties
A. Warner & Co. Publishers, 1890-1

Rev. Caroline A. Bassett was born in Cattaragus county, N.Y., in the
year 1841. At the early age of fifteen years, she commenced her labors as a
teacher, and by careful economy and industry, saved enough to enable her to
attend the State Normal school of Albany, where she graduated with honors in
1862.
In 1868 she resigned her position as principal of the Gowanda Union
school and came to Correctionville, Iowa. Shortly after reaching the state,
she was engaged as principal of the Onawa school, which position she held for
one year. At the close of the spring term she was appointed by the state
superintendent to conduct the Monona County Institute, it being the fir
teachers' institute ever conducted by a lady, and so successful was she that
her services were sought in many of the counties of the state, and in Dakota,
conducting their Territorial institute in December, 1873.
In 1870 she was appointed principal of the grammar department of the
public schools of Sioux City. In the fall of 1870, she was elected by t
people of Woodbury county, to the office of county superintendent of schools,
which office she held for two years, retaining her place, however, in school,
until the close of 1873, when she resigned to devote herself more fully to the
duties of the office, and institute conductor. Under her superintendenc
educational conventions were held at Correctionville, Smithland and Sio
City. These consisted of lectures, discussions, papers and illustrated
lessons. Besides these conventions, two institutes were held in Sioux City -
the first commenced October 7, 1872, and continued one week, conduct
Prof. James Johonnot, of the Warrensburg Normal school, Mo., and Miss Helen
Potter, of New York. A normal institute was held, commencing November 1
1873, and continued two weeks, in charge of Miss Bassett, assisted by Mrs.
Randall Diehl, of New York, and the teachers of the count
In 1871, at a celebration in Correctionville, she won the honor of
being the first lady to deliver a fourth of July oration. Miss Bassett was
prominently connected with all the educational interests of the stat
August, 1872, she presented a paper at the State Teachers' association at Iowa
City, upon "Normal Training in the High School." She presented "Reading and
Elocution" at the first State Normal held in Des Moines, and a paper before
the same institute at Clear Lake. She also established an educational bureau
at Des Moines.
In January, 1874, Miss Bassett entered the University at Evanston,
Ill., for a theological course, but receiving an injury from a fall, she was
unable to complete the course. In 1878 she assisted in a normal institute at
Sioux City. Miss Bassett is at present pastor of the Free Baptist church of
Lisbon, Mich., having been ordained by that denomination in June, 1881. She is
also state superintendent of Sunday-school work in the Women's Christian
Temperance Union. 		Bassett, Caroline Aurelia (I06590)
 
3575 Hood County News, Granbury, Texas, May 2007
Berl Avanell McDaniel

Born in Bremerton, Washington, Berl Avenell (Bassett) came to us Aug. 1
1916, and departed May 10, 2007. She lived there during her younger yea
until meeting her future husband, John Riley McDaniel who preceded her death
in April, 1986. Berl was a caring and loving person, as all who knew her can
testify. She was an active member of First Presbyterian Church of Granbury for
thirty years. Some folks still have one or more of the handmade cards s
sent expressing her thoughtful love and caring. Many were helped by Berl
through her support of People Helping People. Berl enjoyed and was a regular
supporter of the Granbury Opera House until her mobility declined in later
years.

Berl will be laid to rest at the Holly Hills Cemetery, next to her husband of
many years, John Riley McDaniel. May our Lord care for her as she cared for
others! Berl is survived by sons Michael and Kenneth, her niece and nephews
and their families, her Church family, and all those whose lives she touched.
Visitation was held at Martin's funeral home (100 South Morgan Street) Monday,
May 14th from 6 to 7 pm. Memorial service will be conducted at the First
Presbyterian Church (Bridge and Travis Street) Tuesday, May 15th, at 3p
followed by a reception.

Graveside services will held at Holly Hills Cemetery (Highway 51, North
Granbury) following the reception. Memorials may be sent to First Presbyterian
Church of Granbury at 202 West Pearl or People Helping People at 306 Kings
Plaza, Granbury. Final arrangements by Martin's Funeral Home. 		Bassett, Berl Avenell (I19363)
 
3576 Hornell Evening Tribune

ELDER CAROL O. BASSETT
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CANISTEO [Steuben Co., NY] - Elder Carol O. Bassett, 84, of State Route #248,
entered into rest Thursday (Dec. 13, 2001) at St. James Mercy Hospital,
following a short illness.
He was born Aug. 6, 1917 in Greenwood to Ray and Sally Osmin Bassett. He
married Essie Zeh on Aug. 24, 1941 in Palmyra. He was predeceased by a
daughter, Becky Bassett in 1969.

He was a graduate of Greenwood Central School, Class of 1937. He was a member
of the Community of Christ Church of Greenwood, formerly known as the
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, where he was ordained
as Priest in 1937 and as an Elder in 1949. He served the church as pastor for
over 40 years. He had been a member of the Greenwood Central School Board of
Education.

He had worked at the former Corbin Woodworking Corp. for over 23 years, had
been a school bus driver for Jasper Central School where he had also worked as
a custodian. He had driven a HAT bus for over three years and had lived on his
farm since 1945, where he enjoyed farming. Carol enjoyed his family and was a
vital part in assisting his wife in raising over 20 foster children.

In addition to his wife of 60 years, he is survived by three daughters,
Lorraine (Richard) Warriner of Greenwood, Linda (Patsy) McCaffery of Andover
and Carolyn (Terry) Smith of Grove City, Ohio; one son, LeRoy (Rebecca)
Bassett of Titusville, Fla.; one sister, Cora Burley of North Carolina; 14
grandchildren, including granddaughters, Samantha Leya Bassett and Tabatha
Marie Bassett Bryant who were under the care of their grandparents until
leaving home; five step grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; two
nieces; and one nephew.

The family will receive friends on Saturday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the H.P.
Smith & Son, Inc. Funeral Home, 29 East Main St., Canisteo. Funeral services
will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Community of Christ Church in Greenwood.
Burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery in Greenwood.

Memorials in the name of Carol Bassett may be made to the Community of Christ
Church, c/o Lorraine Warriner, P.O. Box 945, Greenwood, N.Y. 14839.


Eastern Great Lakes Mission Center
Carol Bassett

Carol Bassett, 84, served as the pastor of the Greenwood Congregation for many
years. He was the father of the current pastor, Lorraine Warriner, and the
former pastor, Carolyn Smith. As a pastor he touched countless lives and
served as the faithful shepherd of his flock for several decades. Carol was
also the patriarch of a large and loving family. As a father, grandfather, and
great-grandfather, he nurtured and shaped the lives of children,
grandchildren, and others he adopted and claimed as his own through his love.

Carol had trouble breathing for some months and recently he had been diagnosed
with congestive heart failure. On Thursday, December 13, 2001, Carol had been
unconscious all day. He took a deep breath and peacefully went home to his
Lord about 9:50 p.m. His funeral was conducted on Sunday, December 16th at the
Greenwood Congregation where Carol had served so faithfully for so long. A
choir composed of fifteen of Carol's granddaughters sang during the service.

Carol's family has wonderful testimonies to share, testimonies right up to the
very end of Carol's life. But he will be deeply missed and there is grief as
well. Please remember Essie, the children, and all of his extended family in
your prayers.

Carol's passing will profoundly affect the Greenwood Congregation too. His
kind and gentle guidance and stabilizing and comforting presence will be
greatly missed. Please pray for the Congregation to the purpose that Carol's
influence will continue to live on powerfully through the lives of those he
loved and who loved him. 		Bassett, Carol Osmin (I24003)
 
3577 I have a letter on stationary from 1895 that read

Edwin P. Bassett & Sons
Manufacturers of Straw, Felt & Fancy Hats
560 & 562 Broadway
Factory: Franklin, Mass.


1880 Federal Census of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Edwin P. Bassett 46 M MA MA MA Head Straw Goods
Lizzie W. 44 F MA MA RI Wife
Edwin B. 16 M MA MA MA Son At School
Joseph P. 14 M MA MA MA Son At School
Josephine 7 F NY MA MA Daughter
Fanny Greig 21 F IR IR IR Other Servant


Newspaper and date unknown

News has been received of the death of Edwin P. Bassett, son of the
alte Dea. Joseph P. Bassett, who passed away at Ossining, N.Y., his country
home, October 3d. He was born April 25th, 1832, on the Bassett homestead in
the Rice Village district. After leaving school, he started on his life career
as clerk in the Harding P. Woods store; later he went to Athol, clerking in
the store of Bassett & Chickering. In a few years he took a position in the
store of his brother-in-law, the late Mr. Emory Thayer, at Charleston, South
Carolina, where he remained until the opening of the civil war, when he was
compelled to leave for the North. He married Miss Lizzie Barton of
Phillipston. Going to Brooklyn, N.Y., which has always been their home, he
accepted a position as salesman in the wholesale straw goods store of M
Davis Thayer, of New York city. He afterward, with E. Snow, bought out the
business and built a factory for the manufacturing of the goods at Franklin.
The Bassett, Snow Co. was of short duration. Mr. Snow going out of the firm,
the two sons, Edwin B. and Joseph P., were taken in, and the firm was then
known as Bassett & Sons. They carried on a successful business for many years.
On account of declining health, Mr. Bassett has spent the last years of his
life in his country home on the Hudson. He is survived by his widow, two sons,
Edwin B. and Joseph P. Bassett, and a daughter, Mrs. Josephine Barlow, also a
sister, Mrs. Mary Stone of Orange, and two brothers, Charles S. Bassett of
Franklin, and Henry M. Bassett of this town. 		Bassett, Edwin Palmer (I08866)
 
3578 Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug 2006
George A. Bassett

George A. Bassett, age 96, formerly of Cambridge, Idaho passed away Monday Aug. 7, 2006 in Weiser. Visitation will be Saturday Aug. 12, 2006 from 10 to 10:45 a.m. at the Cambridge LDS Church with services following at 11 a.m. Interment will be at the Cambridge Cemetery in Cambridge. George was born on Sept. 7, 1909 in Poplar, Idaho to Chancy and Mary Anes Wetzel Bassett. He married Gladys Sutton on Nov. 29, 1933. They resided in Emmett and Cambridge. George enjoyed fishing and wood working. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. George is survived by his son, Richard Bassett of Mountain Home; daughter, Mary Dejesus of Fruitland; son, Carl Bassett of Denver, Colo.; 15 grandchildren; 44 great-grandchildren; 13 great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Gladys Sutton Bassett; parents; brother, Lewis Bassett; sisters, Verna Draper, Hazel McKay, and Mary Martin. Memorials may be made in Georges name to the Cambridge Senior Center or Cambridge Ambulance Fund. Thomason Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

1950 Federal Census of Emmett, Gem County, Idaho (17 Apr 1950)
George Bassett 40 M Head ID Carpenter Building Construction
Gladys 37 F Wife ID
Richard 15 M Son ID
Mary 14 F Daughter OR
Carl 3 M Son ID
Emily Sutton (Wd) 74 F Mother IL

 		Bassett, George Albert (I8217)
 
3579 Illustrated History of Kennebec County Maine 1625-1892

John Spear, 2d, son of John and Mary (Potter) Spear, and grandson of Israel
Spear, was born in 1826. His father was a pensioner of the war of 1812. Mr.
Spear served in the late war from March, 1864, to July, 1865, in Company I,
31st Maine Volunteers. He married Rebecca, daughter of David and Sarah (Smith)
Bassett, and granddaughter of David Bassett. Their children are: Flora E.,
Millard F., Philossa A., and S. Emeline. 		Spear, John (I04157)
 
3580 Indiana Biography Volume III (1931)

Elmer Bassett, member of a family that has been in Shelby County since
the year 1820, was born and reared on a farm. After leaving home he contrived
the opportunities and means to study law, and for nearly thirty years has been
a prominent member of the Shelbyville bar.
Mr. Bassett is a great-grandson of the pioneer Bassett family
in Shelby County. This pioneer was Nymphas Bassett, who was born in Vermont,
March 7, 1785, and when twenty-four of age married Thankful Ann Bruce. They
lived in Ohio until 1820, when they came to Indiana and settled in Mari
Township of Shelby County. Nymphas Bassett and wife had ten children, and they
and their descendants have constituted what are known as Nymphas Bassett's
family, which for years made a regular practice of holding reunions. Members
of this family are now scattered well over the country from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Coast.
The third child and son of Nymphas Bassett was Sylvester Bassett, who
was born March 24, 1814, and died in 1902. He married, December 23, 183
Susan Monroney, and of their nine children the second child and oldest son was
James M. Bassett.
James M. Bassett was born in Shelby County, April 12, 1840, and was
one of the well-to-do farmers and stock men of the county. He was township
trustee of Marion Township. James M. Bassett married, October 1, 1861,
Clarinda Norville, to whom were born seven children: William N., George,
Elmer, Curtis, Walter, Hayes and Clancy.
Elmer Bassett was born in Shelby County January 10, 1867, and attended
the common schools of the county, afterwards completing a business course in
the Central Indiana Normal College at Danville. For two years he was employed
as a clerk in the Census Bureau at Washington and while there attended night
classes of the National University. He was graduated from the law department
in 1902 and in the same year was admitted to the Indiana state bar. For two
and a half years he was associated with the Shelbyville law firm of Hord &
Adams. He was elected prosecutor of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, comprising
Rush and Shelby counties, and after two years of experience in this public
office he engaged in private law practice and has been one of the very busiest
successful attorneys of Shelbyville. In 1920 he was elected prosecut
Shelby County for the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit and again served for t
years.
Mr. Bassett married Miss Minnie E. Ford, of Shelby County. He is a
member of the Shelby County Bar Association. He is affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity, is a past grand chancellor of the Grand Domain of Indiana and a
past supreme representative of the Knights of Pythias order; also a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of American, Independent
Order of Red Men and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Politically he is a
Republican and has been chairman of the city committee, and is recognized as
one of the influential members of his party in Shelby County. During the World
War he acted as fuel administrator for the county and joined other patriotic-
minded men in promoting the success of the various war drives. He was a four-
minute speaker in the Liberty Bond campaigns. Mr. Bassett is a director of the
Farmers National Bank of Shelbyville. He is a Methodist. 		Bassett, Elmer H. (I15711)
 
3581 Indianpolis Star, Indiana, 7 Jan 2003
Rita A. Bassett

Rita A. Bassett, 78, of Blue Springs, Mo. passed away Thursday, Jan. 2, 2003.
She was born Dec. 3, 1924 in Beech Grove, Ind. She was a member of St. Robert
Bellarmine Catholic Church in Blue Springs, Mo. Mrs. Bassett was a form
appointment clerk at the Indiana University School of Dentistry for 15 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Mary (Carrigam) Sah
Visitation and rosary will be Monday, Jan. 6, 2003 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the
Webb-Freer Funeral Home, 205 Southwest 17th Street, Blue Springs, Mo. 64015.
816-229-2012. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday Jan. 7, 2003 at the St.
Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church. Burial will be at the Mount Moriah Cemetery
in Kansas City, Mo. Memorials may be left to the American Cancer Institute or
the Kansas City Hospice. Survivors include: husband, Donald E. Bassett of the
home; daughters, Joan Bassett of Kansas City, Mo., Nanete and Joe Huser of
Lees Summit, Mo., Julie and Ryan Johnson of Independence, Mo.; sister Mary
Liddy of Indianapolis, Ind., and brother, Ted Sahm of Chino Valley, Ariz.;
three grandchildren, Tyler, Colby, Lauren Huser of Lees Summit, Mo. 		Sahm, Rita A. (I21726)
 
3582 Internet Folio Database (Original Source Unknown)

Sara Ware Bassett, author, daughter of Charles Warren and Anna Augusta
(Haley) Bassett, was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father was a
descendant of William Bassett who came from England to Plymouth in the Fortune
in 1621 through his fifth son, Joseph, who settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. Miss
Bassett was educated in the public schools of Newton and in 1894 graduated from the
Lowell School of Applied Design, then a branch of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. She received a diploma of honorable mention for designs sent with the
latter's exhibit to the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. Unwilling to accept a designer's
position away from home, she turned to teaching and graduated from the Symond's
Kindergarten Training School in 1902. Thereafter for twenty years she held a position
in the Newton public schools. As English had been her favorite study in high school,
she wished to continue this subject, and at once arranged for courses in her spare
time at Boston University, where she studied for four years with Professor E.
Charlton Black. She constantly practiced writing, at first for the mere love
of arranging words, as she had previously arranged colors in her studies in
design. She sold some short stories and contributed unsigned articles to the
Youth's Companion. Self criticism led her to further courses with Professor
Charles T. Copeland and Mr. Frank W.C. Hersey at Radcliffe College, where she
studied also philosophy under Professors Royce and Palmer. She then returned
to Boston University for three year's work under Professor Dalls Lore Sharp.
"To those faithful plots who have guided me upon my course" she dedicated her
first novel, The Taming of Zenas Henry, an affectionate study of Cape Code
life, published in 1915. She had been in the habit of spending her summers on
the Cape and had recognized that, while there were many stories that should be
preserved for their local color, other writers had frequently misrepresented
the true character of the people. In 1917 followed The Wayfarers at the Angels
and in 1919 The Harbor Road. In these books she shows a delicate humor, set
off by a delightful irony that does not disguise her complete and friendly
understanding of a cordial, generous, and humorous people. Miss Bassett's long
experience as a kindergarten teacher has given her a comprehension of
childhood which is reflected in the books she has especially written for young
people: The Story of Lumber (1912), The Story of Wood (1913), The Story of
Leather (1915), The Story of Glass (1916), Ths Story of Sugar (1917), T
Story of Silk (1918), and The Story of Porcelain (1919). In these she h
traced in entertaining style the various stages taken in transforming t
commodity into the finished product. Miss Bassett is a member of the Boston
Women's Club and the Boston Author's Club, and an honorary member of the
Boston Manuscript Club.

Who Was Who, Volume V 1969-1973

Bassett, Sara Ware, author; b. Newton, Mass., Oct. 22, 1872; d.
Charles Warren and Anna Augusta (Haley) Bassett; of Pilgrim descent; grad.
Lowell Sch. of Design, 1894; grad. Symonds Kindergarten Tr. Sch., Bosto
1897; studied Boston U., Radcliffe Coll. Kindergarten teacher public schs.,
Newton, 1897-1917. Congregationalist. Clubs: Author's, Boston Manuscript
(hon.), Woman's City Club (Boston). Author: Silver Moon Cottage, 1945; The
Beacon, 1946; Head Winds, 1947; Within The Harbor, 1948; The White Sail, 1949;
Echoes of The Tide, 1951; Beyond the Breakers, 1952; The Whispering Pin
1953; Adrift, 1954; The Girl in the Blue Pinafore, 1957. Home: 56 West Cedar
St., Boston, MA.

Current Biography, 1956
Sarah Ware Bassett, Author

On April 15, 1955 the Boston Authors' Club honored Sara Ware Bassett,
one of its most loyal and active members, on the publication of her fiftieth
book. For more than forty years Miss Bassett has written her pleasant novels
of New England life. At eighty-four she is busily at work on a new novel
scheduled for publication in 1957. A small and fragile-looking lady who has
lived all her life in Massachusetts, Miss Bassett shuns publicity. "I prefer
to be represented by my work," she writes, "I love my writing. It is my boon
companion."
A descendant of William Bassett who came to Plymouth, Massachusetts on
the Fortune in 1621 and joined the Pilgrims' colony, Sara Ware Bassett was
born in Newton, Massachusetts, October 22, 1872, to Charles Warren and Anna
Augusta (Haley) Bassett. She spent her childhood and early girlhood in Newton,
studying in the Newton public schools and graduating from the Newton Hi
School in 1892. In the same year she entered the Lowell School of Design, then
a part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, where she
completed a program in textile design. She never worked professionally in the
field, however. In 1894 she decided to become a kindergarten teacher, a
after five years of study at the Symonds Kindergarten Training School in
Boston, she obtained a position in the Newton public schools which she held
from 1897 to 1917.
With a teaching schedule of a little more than two hours a day, Miss
Bassett had time to continue her studies in the three fields which interested
her most - English, psychology, and philosophy. She took courses at Radcliffe
College in Cambridge under such distinguished professors as Charles T.
Copeland ("Copey"), Josiah Royce, and George Herbert Paomer. She also studied
at Boston University under Dallas Lore Sharp. Miss Bassett had by this time
resolved to become a writer, but, as she explains, "I was ill satisfied with
my work and was determined to learn how to 'handle my tools'
Encouraged by all her teachers, but especially by Professor Charp, she
began her first novel, and this was published in 1915 by George H. Doran under
the The Taming of Zenas Henry (made into a silent motion picture by RKO). In
the forty years since this time, Miss Bassett has published thirty novels, her
latest To Each His Dream in 1955 (Doubleday). She has also written a number of
books for children: a group in the Industrial Book series for the Penn
Publishing Company from 1912 to 1920 (The Story of Lumber, The Story of Wool,
The Story of Glass, etc.); another group for the Invention Series published by
Little, Brown from 1920 to 1926 (Paul and the Printing Press, Steve and the
Steam Engine, etc.); and again for Penn in 1926 to 1927 two volumes in the
Discovery Series, The Story of Columbus, The Story of Vasco da Gama. Wi
George L. Shuman she wrote Industries of the World (1914) and with E.T. Holmes
A Wonderful Fifty Years (1917, privately printed).
Most of Miss Bassett's novels are set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts where
(except for two trips to England and the Continent) she has spent all h
summers since she was in her teens. "I have sought to put into my novels its
atmosphere, the fragrance of its pines, the blueness of its sea, the emerald
of its salt marshes. I have also tried to present sincerely the humor of the
Cape Codder, his common sense, his sterling qualities."
Reviewers have generally agreed that Miss Bassett has succeeded in
this intention. Her novels, Lisle Bell remarked in the New York Herald Tribune
in 1943, are "wholesome and folksy, touched with native humor and the spirit
of neighborliness." In a review of her novel Heart's Haven (Doubleday, 1944),
the New York Times (July 9, 1944) commented: "Widely known for the flavor of
authenticity she brings to her stories by right of heritage, the author is at
her best when describing the natives of the small village of Belleport and
letting you listen in on their gossip and salty philosophizing
It is not Miss Bassett's purpose to portray the grimmer aspects of the
modern world nor to explore in depth the complexities of human life. On the
eve of World War II, the Saturday Review of Literature (July 1, 1939)
complained that her novel A Son of the Sea (Doubleday, 1939) with "its absence
of contemporary insecurity, tenseness, and quickness, belongs in those great
days of the Atlantic Monthly which preceded the Civil War. It was designed for
that saintly white-haired grandmother who in advertisements is all day sitting
and knitting and dreaming; it is tender, conventional, and unreal as she is."
To the large public that seeks escape in pleasant romantic fiction, however,
Miss Bassett's novels, soundly based as they are in the spirit and flavor of
rural and small town New England life, remain sturdy favorite
Miss Bassett does all her writing at the Boston Athenaeum (of which
she is a proprietor) where she is free from the interruptions of telephone
calls and visitors. She lives with her sister, a retired physician, in an old
house on Beacon Hill in Boston. Her favorite recreations are "a good book, a
good play, good music." She rarely listens to the radio and has never watched
television. She is proud of her strong family tradition ("although we have
traveled, our family have never lived outside Massachusetts since 1621") and
states her convictions simply but firmly: "I stand for what is clean, decent,
and upholds our religious and moral standards."  		Bassett, Sara Ware (I12513)
 
3583 James Judson "Jud" Bassett
Star-Telegram, 5 Sep 2004

James Judson "Jud" Bassett, 75, a longtime resident of Grand Prairie, passed
away Saturday, Aug. 28, 2004, in Bedford. Graveside services: 10 a.m.
Wednesday in Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.

Jud Bassett was born Feb. 6, 1929, in Wink. Mr. Bassett served his country in
the Navy during the Korean War. After returning home in 1954, he worked as an
independent insurance adjuster for many years. He met and married Mary
Stiborek in Dallas. They were married 36 years until her death Jan. 30, 1998.

Survivors: Son, Jay Bassett; daughter, Marnell Wetherby; son-in-law, James
Wetherby; sister, Janell Weems; grandchildren, Nathan Wetherby and Cart
Wetherby; nephews, Jim, Ray and Andrew Weems. 		Bassett, James Judson (I18864)
 
3584 JEFFREY CHARLES BASSETT Monday 18 Sep 1978

Jeffrey Charles Bassett, 23, Dayton, died Saturday following an
accident at his home. Green County Coroner Justin Krause, D.O., is continuing
his investigation of the death.
Born May 31, 1955 in Minocqua, Wis., he was the son of Robert a
Barbara Brown Bassett. He had been an Ashland County resident most of h
life.
Mr. Bassett was employed as an electrical engineer with Delco Products
in Dayton and was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. He was an Eagle Scout.
Surviving are his parents, of Ashland; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Brown of Columbus and Alice Bassett of Minocqua, Wisc; and one sister,
Jennifer of Ashland.
Memorial services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran
Church with the Rev. George Dittmar officiating. Burial will be in Ashland
County Memorial Park.
Friends may call one hour prior to services at Heyl Funeral Home. 		Bassett, Jeffrey Charles (I20149)
 
3585 John Bassett Jr.
The Day, 11 Jan 2005

Niantic - John E. Bassett Jr., 77, retired electrical engineer, of Niantic,
died Sunday evening at L & M Hospital.

Born on Jan. 6, 1928, in Pawtucket, R.I., he was the son of John E. and Ruth
(Hall) Bassett.

On Nov. 18, 1950, he married Barbara Feather who died on March 17, 199

He is survived by Rachel Ayer, his companion of more than 10 years.

Mr. Bassett attended Central Falls High School, and graduated from the
University of Rhode Island in 1952 with a degree in electrical engineering.

He was a member of the U.S. Army and served in Italy as an MP from 1946-1948.

Mr. Bassett was an engineering consultant for his company JB Controls since
1984. Prior to this he formed his own company, Bassett Electric, from 1969 to
1984. During this time he designed and manufactured control and instrumentation
systems. This business was sold to PDN in Plainville, where he continued to work
as an engineer and president. He also worked at Westinghouse as the site
manager at the Con-Edison Nuclear Plant in Buchanan, N.Y. He designed electrical
systems for Perkin Elmer. He worked for AMF as a control and instrumentation
engineer and manager. While at AMF, Mr. Bassett was responsible for field plant
start-ups, construction and testing of nuclear reactors in locations worldwide.
During his earlier career, he worked at Electric Boat, as an engineer during the
construction of the Nautilus. He instructed radiation monitoring to the Navy at this time.

He also enjoyed teaching courses part time in electrical theory and cod
instrumentation and controls.

He was a member of the Mystic 50 Plus Singles Club, Shoreline 50 Plus, and
Norwich 50 Plus, where he enjoyed telling jokes, serving as their master of
ceremonies and writing the Shoreline's newsletter. He enjoyed dancing,
whistling, music, logic puzzles, baking, woodworking and his yo-yo'

He is survived by two sons and two daughters, John K. Bassett, of Stratford,
Donna Bassett-Edwards, of New Milford, Sharon Bassett, of Bethel, and Robert
Bassett, of Warwick, R.I. He also is survived by two sisters, Ruth Carr, of
San Diego, Calif., and Dorothy Bently, of Cumberland, R.I.; fourteen
grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

The funeral service will be held on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005, at 2 o'clock at
the Thomas L. Neilan & Sons East Lyme Funeral Home, 48 Grand Street, Niantic.
Interment will be private. Calling hours will be held on Thursday from 1 o'clock
until the time of the service.

Donations in his memory may be made to either the Muscular Dystrophy Assoc.,
PO Box 78960, Phoenix, AZ 85062-8960 or the American Cancer Society, 238 W.
Towne St., Norwich, CT 06360.

For obituary, directions or to sign the families on line guest book please
visit www.neilanfuneralhome.com.

Providence Journal, Rhode Island, Wednesday, January 12, 2005
John E. Bassett

BASSETT, JOHN E., 77, retired electrical engineer Niantic, formerly of Westerly died Sunday evening at L & M Hospital. Born on January 6, 1928 in Pawtucket, RI, he was the son of John E. and Ruth (Hall) Bassett. He married Barbara Feather on November 18, 1950 who died on March 17, 1992. He is survived by Rachel Ayer, his companion of more than 10 years. Mr. Bassett attended Central Falls High School, and graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1952 with a degree in electrical engineering. He was a member of the U.S. Army and served in Italy as an MP from 1946-1948. He is survived by two sons and two daughters; John K. Bassett of Stratford, CT, Donna Bassett-Edwards of New Milford, CT, Sharon Bassett of Bethel, CT, and Robert Bassett of Warwick, RI. He also is survived by two sisters Ruth Carr of San Diego, CA, Dorothy Bentley of Cumberland, RI, fourteen grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral service will be held on Thursday January 13, 2005 at 2 p.m. at the Thomas L. Neilan & Sons East Lyme Funeral Home 48 Grand Street Niantic, Ct. Interment will be private. Calling hours will be held on Thursday from 1 p.m. until the time of the service. Donations in his memory may be made to either the Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. PO Box 78960 Phoenix, Az. 85062-8960 or the American Cancer Soc. 238 W. Towne St. Norwich, Ct. 06360. For obituary, directions or to sign the families on line guest book please visit: www.neilanfuneralhome.com.
 		Bassett, John E. (I18760)
 
3586 John Devere Bassett, obituary

John Devere Bassett, 69, of Monterey, a retired PBX system repairman, died of
cancer Tuesday at his home.

Born Aug. 9 1927 in Los Angeles, he had lived in Monterey nearly all his life.

Mr. Bassett served in the Navy during World War II and worked for Pacific Bell
for 34 years. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday
Saints, American Legion Post No. 591 in Seaside, the Coast Guard Auxiliary,
the Civil Air Patrol, and the Society for Creative Anachronism.

He is survived by two sons, Ronald of San Diego and Robin of Montana; a
daughter, Laurel Bassett of Anchorage, Alaska; two stepsons, Michael
Brassfield of Monterey and James Brassfield of Salem, Oregon; a stepdaughter,
Sharon Lecalmaita of Seaside; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Paul Mortuar

The family suggests that contributions be sent to the Hospice of the Central
Coast, PO Box 1798, Monterey 93942. 		Bassett, John Devere (I17619)
 
3587 Jonathan N. Bassett (includes picture)

Jonathan Nathaniel Bassett, 35, of Moncton, passed away at the Moncton
Hospital, Monday, May 30, 2005, after a brief illness. Born in Lock Haven,
Pennsylvania, he was the son of W. Todd and Carol A. (Easterday) Bassett of
Alexandria, Virginia. Jonathan was a member of the Moncton Wesleyan Church and
a Customer Service Advisor with Moncton Chrysler.

Besides his parents Jonathan will be sadly missed by his daughter Jenna Marie,
sons Jeffery Stephen and Jonathan Christopher, sister Linda Jill Daugan,
Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, brother Jeffery Todd Bassett (Jessica),
Asbury Park, New Jersey, 5 nieces and 2 nephews.

Visitation at Ferguson Knowles Funeral Home, 1657 Mountain Rd., Moncton (858-
1995), Wednesday 2-4, 7-9. Funeral service at the Moncton Wesleyan Church,
Thursday June 2, 11:00 a.m. Reception following the service. Interme
Elmwood Cemetery, Moncton.

In Jonathan's memory donations to the Jonathan Bassett Memorial Fund at the
Moncton Wesleyan Church would be appreciated. (www.fegusonknowlesfh.com) 		Bassett, Jonathan Nathaniel (I29693)
 
3588 Joseph Thomas "Shorty" Bassett

Bassett, Joseph Thomas, "Shorty", 82, of Louisville, died Saturday at
Altenheim. He was a retired inspector at Kosmosdale Cement Plant and a member
of Our Lady of Consolation Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his
wife, Frances. He is survived by his daughter, Betty Hoagland (Kenneth); son,
Richard Bassett; brother, William Bassett; two grandchildren, Tommy and
Darlene Friel; and one great-grandson, Jordan Friel. His funeral service will
be held at noon Tuesday at W.G. Hardy, Valley Chapel, with burial in Bethany
Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. Monday at the funer
home. 		Bassett, Joseph Thomas (I23165)
 
3589 Josie Mae Quick
Aug. 19, 1981, Brown County, Obituary Book

Josie Quick Bassett, 89, Elizabethtown, died on Thursday, Aug. 13,
1981, at Bartholomew County. She was a Brown county native.
She was born on April 16, 1892. Only her mother's name was available.
Elizabeth Quick.
With her late husband, Calvin Bassett, she lived in Johnson county,
mostly near Ninevah, most of her life.
Surviving her are a son, Dudley Bassett, Florida, three daughters,
Dorothy Ford of Columbus, Mary Fish of Elizabethtown, and Alta Canary of
Franklin; 23 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-
grandchildren.
Four children and two brothers preceded her in death. Rev. Norm
Bassett officiated the funeral on Saturday at Flinn and Maquire Funeral home
in Franklin with burial at the Ninevah Cemetery. 		Quick, Josie Mae (I15826)
 
3590 Justine Bassett, paper unknown

Justine Bassett, 84 a resident of Albuquerque for 42 years, died
Saturday, January 9, 1999. She is survived by her sisters, Marian Bassett of
Albuquerque, Dorothy Race and husband, Harold of Oshkosk, WI and Mayme
Cantzlaar of Waukesha, WI. Justine retired from Sandia National Labs and was a
volunteer at Kaseman Presbyterian Hospital. Cremation has taken place a
private services were held. French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd, NE. 		Bassett, Justine (I21183)
 
3591 KALAMAZOO GAZETTE 26 Jul 1930
HELEN W. BASSETT DIES AT FENNVILLE
Oldest Member of Simpson Methodist Church of Kalamaz

Fennville - July 26 - Mrs. Helen W. Bassett, oldest member of t
Simpson Methodist church of Kalamazoo, died here Friday evening after a short
illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Burpee.
Mrs. Bassett, the last survivor of a family of seven children, was
born in New York State in 1843 and came to Michigan in 1856. At that time her
trip from Kalamazoo to Middleville was made by stage over what is now US-131.
Marrying Melvin Bassett at Middleville in 1856, the couple came to
Kalamazoo a few years later where Mrs. Bassett became a member of the Simpson
Methodist church. Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Bassett resided in
Kalamazoo until a few years ago when she came here to live with her daughter.
She is survived by three children., Mrs. Luella Burpee, M. Orlando
Bassett, and Charles Bassett; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted from the Kalamazoo Simpson Methodist church
at 3:30 Monday afternoon with the Rev. Henry W. Ellinger and the Rev. A.S.
Williams officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. 		Purdy, Helen Wilmot (I11312)
 
3592 Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 Jun 2006
Nancy (Bauckham) DeGrazia
Age 83, of Spring Lake

Passed away Tues., June 13, 2006 at a local hospital. She was born Oct. 10,
1922, to Arthur F. and Jesse I. (Lyons) Bassett in Royal Oak, MI; and s
married John M. DeGrazia on May 22, 1976 at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in
Kalamazoo. Funeral service: 11:00 a.m. Saturday at VanZantwick Bartels
Kammeraad Funeral home, Spring Lake. Visitation: 2-4 & 6-8 p.m. Friday at the
funeral home. Memorials: American Heart Association and Hospice of North
Ottawa Community. Share memorials with the family at their online guest book
at 222.vbkfuneralhome.com. 		Bassett, Nancy Lenore (I18849)
 
3593 Kanabec Times, Mora, Minnesota, 22 Feb 2007
Harold Arnold Koch

Harry Arnold Koch of Pomroy Township, Brook Park, died on Sunday, Feb. 11 at
St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth. He was 80 years old.

He was born on Feb. 5, 1927, at home in Pomroy Township, Kanabec County, to
William and Florence (Hermanson) Koch. He attended District 31 country school
through the eighth grade and worked on the family farm that was homesteaded by
his grandparents.

In 1949 he was united in marriage to Delores Bassett and in a short time took
over the family farm, which remained his passion throughout his life. To them
were born three children. During his lifetime he was involved in dairy
production and later beef cattle and growing the crops to feed them. He was
always very inventive when it came to finding a quicker or easier way to get
the job done.

He will always be remembered for his great sense of humor and his sweet tooth.
He enjoyed deer hunting every year with Albert Foust.

He was a supervisor on the Pomroy Township Board for many years and a fire
warden for 25 years. He was confirmed and married at St. John's Lutheran
Church at Kroschel and remained a lifelong member.

He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Florence Koch; a
sister, Laura Knudsen.

He is survived by his wife of nearly 58 years, Delores of rural Brook Park;
daughters, Elaine Alderink and husband Gary of Brook Park and Harriet Soumula
and husband Richard of Duluth; son Wayne Koch of Mora; seven grandchildren,
Julie Alderink (Troy) Fasching, Kristen Nolan (Chad), April Alderink (Shane
Rothstein), Jessi Rakness (Jared), Jon Soumala (Charice), Jamie Koch
(Kassandra), and Kimberly Koch; seven great grandchildren, Andrew, Hannah,
Hunter, Emma, Zander, David and Kyle; one brother, Elmer Koch of Blaine; plus
nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, Feb. 17 at St. John's Lutheran Church
in Kroschel. The Rev. Michael Breach officiated. Music was provided by Katie
Williams and members of St. John's Choir.

Pallbearers were Jamie Koch, Jon Soumala, Jared Rakness, Troy Fasching, Chad
Nolan and Shane Rothstein.

Burial was at Oakwood Cemetery in Mora.

Arrangements were by Akkerman-Ingebrand Funeral and Cremation Servic
Mora. 		Koch, Harry Arnold (I23804)
 
3594 Kate A. Firestone
Kalamazoo Gazette, Saturday, 2 Sep 1972

Kate A. Firestone - St. Petersburg, Fla, Formerly of Allegan, Age 93, passed
away Friday, Sept. 1, 1972, in St. Petersburg. Born in Allegan, May 16, 1879
and resided here most of her life until the death of her husband, Claud E.
Firestone, at which time she moved to Florida to live with a niece, Mrs.
Kathryn Hill. Mrs. Firestone's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Bourne
Bassett were among Allegan's early settlers, coming here from Massachusetts in
1846. Her parents were the late Judge and Mrs. Dan Arnold. Mrs. Firestone was
active in many community and church affairs. She was a member of the Church of
the Good Shepherd. Survived by: a nephew, George Arnold of Battle Creek; four
nieces, Mrs. Dorothy Arnold Wegman of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Mrs. Frances
Arnold Gwyer of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., Mrs. Arlene Arnold Pendergast of
South Yarra, Australia, Mrs. Kathryn Hill of St. Petersburg, Fla.; also
survived by many grand and great-grandnieces and nephews. Friends may call at
the Nyberg Funeral Home after noon on Monday. Graveside services will be held
at Oakwood Cemetery at 1 o'clock on Tuesday. 		Arnold, Kate (I16470)
 
3595 Kelowna Daily Courier
Thursday, 6 Apr 2006
Wilma Katherine (nee McLachlan) Bassett

Wilma Katherine (nee McLachlan), November 22, 1918 - April 3, 2006. Peacefully
at rest after a brave confrontation with cancer. She leaves us to be with her
beloved husband Art, predeceased October 2005. She is survived by her loving
family: 2 sons, Robert Patterson (Carol) of Delta, B.C. and Donald Patterson
(Debbie) of Vancouver, B.C., 2 daughters: Diane Schuss (Bill) of Sidney, B.C.
and Shirley Stevenson (Jim) of Delta, B.C., step son Bob Bassett (Barb) of
Westbank, B.C., step daughter Arlene Pope (Jim) of Richmond, B.C., 10
grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren, many extended family and friends. Wilma
and Art returned to B.C. after retiring from careers with the Santa Barbara
Cancer Foundation in California and they settled in Westbank in 1997. Wilma
was active in her Strata Board of Directors, a volunteer at the Cancer Centre,
Westside Seniors Assoc., Red Hat Society. Wilma was known to many for h
compassionate heart, sunny disposition and warm good will. In lieu of flowers
and cards - donations to a charity of your choice. Cremation and inform
celebration of her life to be held at a later date. 		MacLachlan, Wilma Katherine (I137)
 
3596 KENNETH C. BASSETT, 27 Aug 1975

Kenneth C. Bassett, 76, of 292 North St., died last night at the
Edgecomb Nursing Home in Lenox after a long illness.
A lifelong resident of Pittsfield, he attended local schools and was
graduated from Berkshire Business College. He was the son of Charles F. and
Catherine Voll Bassett.
Mr. Bassett was a route salesman for the former Dal Brothers Laundry
for 30 years until retiring in 1969. He had been living at the nursing home
for the past year.
He was a member of South Congregational Church her
He is survived by one brother, Ronald A., of Pittsfield, and two
sisters, Mrs. Kathleen C. Delaney and Mrs. Helen A. Bemiss, both of
Pittsfield.
Private funeral services will be held tomorrow at the Devanny Funeral
Home. Cremation will follow. There are no calling hours.
The omission of flowers is requested. Donations may be made to the
YMCA in Mr. Bassett's memory. 		Bassett, Kenneth (I16255)
 
3597 Kenneth R. Clark, 1962

Kenneth R. Clark, 72, 3825 Caleb Rd., Leavittsburg, died at 5:50 a.m.
today in Trumbull Memorial Hospital, following a four-month illnes
Prior to retiring in 1963, Mr. Clark was employed as a rough
Republic Steel Corp. for 32 years.
He was born Nov. 8, 1890 in Cherry Valley. He was the son of Willis
and Ella Loveland Clark. His wife, Mildred Eras Clark, died May 1
He was a lifetime member of Warren Eagles Lodge, and had served as
president of Local 1375 for many years.
Survivors include five sons, Paul W. of Farrell, Harlan B. of
Cortland, Kenneth R. of Greene Township, Ronald G. and Harley G., bo
Leavittsburg; three daughters, Mrs. Robert (Dorothy) Jakubec and Mrs. Harry
(Rita) Croft, both of Greene Township, Mrs. Joseph (Barbara) Davis of
Gustavus; a sister, Mrs. Grace Meade of Jefferson; a stepbrother, Harlan B.
Bassett of Geneva; 27 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildre
Services will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. at the Carl W. Hall Funeral
Home. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery, Greene.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday. 		Clark, Kenneth R. (I23141)
 
3598 Kent County, Michigan Birographies
Roswell D. Denison, Cascade Twp., pp. 705-706 (Chapman 188

Roswell D. Denison, son of Asahel J. and Laura (Fenton) Denison, was
born March 15, 1823, in Niagara Co., N.Y. Both his grandfathers were soldiers
in the Revolution. In 1844, he settled in Branch county, and in 1862 took up
his abode at Grand Rapids. In 1874 he built a good custom grist-mill, which he
operated three years, when he sold it and opened a grocery at Whitneyville,
his present quarters. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, is a National in
politics, and has been Postmaster three years. In 1846 he was married to Susan
Chase of New York. Their son, Burt, born July 25, 1851, is engaged in a
flouring mill, at Grand Rapids. Mrs. Denison died in 1861, and in 1866 Mr. D.
was married to Hattie A., daughter of Austin and Maria Bassett of Battle
Creek. 		Denison, Roswell D. (I12616)
 
3599 Kirkwood Cemetery, Rock County, Nebraska

Bassett, John1858 - 1926
Bassett, Naomi A.11/3/1861 7/21/1906 		Bassett, John Mason Coggeshall (I07794)
 
3600 LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
GRACE L. BASSETT

I, Grace L. Bassett, being of sound mind and memory, and being
desirous of making a disposition of all of my property, both real and personal
in my name at the time of my death, do make this my Last Will and Testament,
hereby revoking any and all wills by me heretofore mad

ITEM ONE

I will and direct that any and all of my just legal debts of every kind
and character that may exist, including doctor bills and funeral expenses, be
paid first by my Executor, hereinafter named, as soon as is practicable after
my death.

ITEM TWO

I give any bequeath to my beloved husband, Ernest Bassett, all of the
household goods and furnishings, together with the family automobile that I
may own the time of my death, for his own use and benefit or to dispose of it
as he desires.

ITEM THREE

I further Will and direct that my Executor, hereinafter named, shall
have appraised and sell the real estate which I own, situated at 702 E. Hoffer
Street, Kokomo, Indiana, legally described as follows, to-wi

Lot Number One Hundred Thirty-eight (138)
In Gateway Addition to the City of Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana,

Together with any and all other real estate that I may own in my name at the
time of my death, and reduce all of said real property to cas

I hereby authorize and empower my Executor, hereinafter named, to sell
said real estate without any order of Court and to execute and deliver good
and sufficient deeds and other instruments necessary to convey and transfer
the same to the purchasers, as fully and effectually as if I was doing it.

It is my desire that any of my children shall have the first right to
purchase said real estate situated at 702 E. Hoffer Street, Kokomo, Indiana,
at the appraised value; if more than one child would be interested in said
property then said real estate shall be sold to the child making the highest
bid therefor above the appraised value. Any child or children interested in
purchasing said real estate shall have sixty days from the date of my death to
make his or her bid for the property and if no child or children indicate a
desire to purchase said real estate, then I direct my Executor to sell the
same with any other real estate that I may own at the time of my death to any
interested person under the rules and regulations as provided under the
Probate Code of the State of Indiana.

ITEM FOUR

I give and bequeath to the St. Luke's Evangelical United Brethr
Church, Kokomo, Indiana, the sum of One Thousand ($1000.00) Dollars. The Board
of Trustees to administer said funds.

ITEM FIVE

(a) After all of my just legal debts of every kind and character have
been paid, including expenses of last sickness, funeral expenses, and costs of
administration, and after Item Two and Item Four of this my Last Will a
Testament have been fully paid and complied with, I give and bequeath to my
beloved children, William M. Bassett, Harold I. Bassett, Helen Laverne Cosand,
Ralph J. Bassett and Mary Ellen Cooley, all the balances and residue of my
estate of every kind, character and description, whatsoever the same may be or
wherever situated, for their own use and benefit or to dispose of it as they
desire. Said names children shall share and share alike in the remainder of my
estate.

(b) I further will and direct that in the event any one or more of my
said children should predecease me, then and in that event, I order and direct
that the interest of each respective deceased child shall then go to the
surviving spouse and the children of said deceased child, the said surviving
spouse and children to take the interest willed to my deceased child as
provided under the general rules of descent as the Probate Code of the State
of Indiana provides of a person dying intestate.

ITEM SIX

I hereby nominate and appoint Ernest Bassett, my beloved husband, as
Executor of this my Last Will and Testament and request that his bond be only
in a nominal amount to comply with the Probate Code as to protection of
creditors. In the event that he has predeceased me, then I hereby nominate and
appoint William M. Bassett, Shelbyville, Indiana, my beloved son, as successor
Executor of this my Last Will and Testament and request that his bond be only
in a nominal amount to comply with the Probate Code as to protection of
creditors.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Grace L. Bassett, have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 19th day of January, 1960.

Grace L. Basse

This instrument, consisting of three pages, was, on the 19th day of
January, 1960, signed, sealed and acknowledged by the said Grace L. Bassett,
as and for her Last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who at h
request and in her presence, and in the presence of each other, have
subscribed our names as witnesses.

Gerald W. Rybo
Mary Belle Ma


CODICIL TO LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
GRACE L. BASSETT


I, Grace L. Bassett, of Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, do here
make, publish and declare this to be a codicil to the Last Will and Testament
heretofore made, signed, sealed, published, declared and executed by me, and
bearing date of January 19, 1960, that is to say:

FIRST: I hereby amend and modify Item Six of my aforesaid Last Will
and Testament, so that the said Item Six thereof shall now read as follows:

I hereby nominate and appoint Gerald W. Rybolt, Kokomo, Indiana, as
Executor of this my Last Will and Testament and request that his bond be only
in a nominal amount to comply with the Probate Code as to protection of
creditors.

SECOND: I do hereby ratify and confirm my said Will in all other
respects.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have this 3rd day of February, 1965, signed,
sealed, published and declared the foregoing instrument as and for a codicil
to my Last Will and Testament bearing date of January 19, 196

Grace L. Bassett

Signed, sealed, published and declared, on the 3rd day of February,
1965, by Grace L. Bassett, the testatrix above named, as and for a codicil to
her Last Will and Testament bearing date of January 19, 1960, in our presence,
and in the presence of each other, have, on the date aforesaid, hereunto
signed and subscribed our names as attesting witnesse

Jewell L. Ha
Mary Belle Main  		Bass, Grace Lee (I15917)
 

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