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- Charles was a very prominent man in New York. He had the business of Bassett & Sutphin. He was on the New York Chamber of Commerce. Politically, he was a Republican and in religion he adhered to the Episcopal Church,
ironically, the church his immigrant ancestor came to America to escape.
History Genealogical and Biographical of the
Bassett and Allied Families (1919)
Charles Franklin Bassett (includes picture)
Charles Franklin Bassett, son of Anselm and Elizabeth (Johnson)
Bassett, was born at Lee, Mass., October 9, 1862, and was educated in t
public and high schools of his native town. He was born and reared on a farm,
and took from his labors there lessons in industry and strength in physique
that stood him in excellent stead in later years. In September, 1879, he came
to New York and entered the employ of H.C. Hulbert & Company as office boy,
at a salary of $150 per annum, this firm one of the largest paper and supply
houses in the country. In 1890 he was admitted to partnership, and went to
Europe to represent the firm in the making of important contracts and t
establishment of agencies. He was made attorney in liquidation, coupled with
an interest in the long established firm of M. Plummer & Company, in 1900. In
the same year he took over the business, and in association with his brother-
in-law, Joseph H. Sutphin, joined it with the firm of H.C. Hulbert, under the
name of Bassett & Sutphin. This firm purchased the business of B.& O. Myers in
1910.
In addition to the above activities, Mr. Bassett was deeply interested
in many other enterprises. He was vice-president and chairman of the finance
committee of the East River Savings Institution of New York, director of the
Importers' and Traders' National Bank, trustee and member of finance, trust,
and credit committee of the Franklin Trust Company of Brooklyn and New York,
director and member of finance and executive committee of the Celluloid
Company, director in the United States Life Insurance Company, and several
other large corporations. Mr. Bassett was a member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, the New England Society in New York, and also of the Socie
Colonial Wars. He was a member of the Union League Club of New York; Hamilton
Club, of Brooklyn; Baltusrol Golf Club, Canoe Brook Country Club, Hyde Manor
Golf Club, of which he was president, and the Down Town Association. He found
recreation in riding, driving, and golf. In politics he was a Republican, and
in religious belief an Episcopalian. His death occurred December 20, 1916, at
"Fair View," Summit, New Jersey.
Mr. Bassett married, in Brooklyn, June 14, 1893, Carolyn Beardsley
Hulbert, youngest daughter of Henry Carlton Hulbert, a descendant from the
same Bassett and Dymoke ancestry as her husband. Children: 1. Hulbert Dymoke,
born Oct. 17, 1894; left Harvard University, where he was a student in the
class of 1918, to enlist in April, 1917, in the United States Army, and until
his honorable discharge from the service (Feb. 15, 1919), was a lieutenant in
the Ordnance Officers' Reserve Corps, stationed in the United States Arsenal
at Rock Island, Illinois. 2. Elizabeth Hulbert, born May 3, 1902.
The Sun, New York, New York, Friday, 22 December 1916
Obituary
Charles Francis Bassett
Death Due to Pneumonia at His Home in Summit
Charles Francis Bassett died yesterday afternoon at his home in Summit, N.J., which is one of the show places of that section, at the junction of Summit avenue and Ridge road. Death was due to pneumonia. He was 54 years old. His widow, a son and daughter survived him. The son is a junior at Harvard.
Mr. Bassett was a member of the paper manufacturing firm of Bassett & Sutphin, 60 Lafayette street, Manhattan. He was a vice-president of the East River Savings Institution, a director of the Importers and Traders National Bank, of the Franklin Trust Company, United States Life Insurance Company and the Celluloid Company. He was a member of the Union League Club, Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, Down Town Association, Highland Club of Summit and Baltusrol Golf Club.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1862 - 1916 (54 years)