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- Reuben lived in Bellefontaine, Ohio in 1928.
1870 Federal Census of Polo, Eagle Point Twp., Ogle County, Illinois (1 Jul 1870)
Reuben Bassett 23 M Illinois Keeps School
Living with Helen Sumner
1880 Federal Census of Rock Creek, Nemaha County, Kansas
Rubin C. Bassett 32 M IL MV -- Other Lawyer
Francis 25 F OH -- -- Other
Living with many others in a Hotel run by Jackson Swearingen
History of Nemaha County, Kansas (1916)
Reuben C. Bassett
Reuben C. Bassett, of Seneca, Kans., a member of the Nemaha county bar, was a member of the State legislature in 1886 and was largely instrumental in having the law passed creating the new Twenty-second judicial district, and was rewarded by being appointed its first judge by the governor. His appointment dated February 25, 1886, to fill the vacancy and was reelected and served to the end of the term, in January, 1891, when he retired and moved to Chicago, Ill., where he engaged in the wholesale lumber trade, also practiced law there and later removed to Oklahoma, where he now resides. He was a well informed, scholarly and capable lawyer and judge and his career on the bench was highly satisfactory to his constituents.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1846 - 1930 (83 years)