Bassett Brothers Mercantile College of New York

Seth Martin Bassett and Noble Page Bassett descend from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows:

William Bassett and wife Elizabeth
Joseph Bassett (b. 1635) and wife Mary Lapham
William Bassett (b. 1667) and wife Mary Bumpus
Seth Bassett (b. 1715) and wife Mary Hayward
Seth Bassett (b. 1739) and wife Mary
Seth Bassett (b. 1785) who married twice
Noble Page Bassett (b. 1817) and Seth Martin Bassett (b. 1822)

Syracuse Central City Courier, Monday Morning, February 20, 1860
Death of Prof. Seth M. Bassett

      Seth M. Bassett, Professor of Book Keeping, Practical Accountant, &c., at the Syracuse Commercial College, expired at his rooms in the Dillaye Buildings, on Friday night last at half-past ten o’clock. Prof B. has been at the head of this Institution for five years past, and has succeeded in building it up to the rank of a first class Mercantile College. He was ambitious to render it the model and leading Institution of its kind in the State. To accomplish this end he has labored most steadily and vigorously – far too much so for his health, which has been yielding to the pressure of a too heavy and too long protracted taxation.

For a long time this community has been accustomed to see and admire those elegant and elaborate specimens of chirography which decorate the walls of the College Hall, and some of the public rooms of the city. Not only curiosity is awakened, but astonishment is aroused at the skill, elegance, and genius of his magnificent efforts. Whenever he entered upon competition he always carried the prize. And there is making for him now the prize silver medal of the Franklin Institute which he so lately won, but which he is never to behold.

Kind, courteous and winning, Prof. Bassett was one of the most successful instructors in this country. And the judgement and skill which he exhibited has impressed our citizens that he was a man of more years than twenty-seven. He was building up an institution which would have been not only creditable to himself, but the pride of our city. He improved and systematized his manner and theory of instruction, and continually advanced the profession in which his whole soul was enlisted.

The attachment of those who came under this charge and care can better be told in the expression of his scholars, in their resolutions published below, and in their following him to a distant grave, than we can tell in this brief but well deserved notice.

Whereas, Death has removed from our midst, and from the care and conduct of this Institution, our friend and teacher Seth M. Bassett; we, the students of the Syracuse Commercial College, gathered together in the hall where we have been accustomed to meet him in his daily intercourse with us as our preceptor.

Resolve, That in the death of Seth M. Bassett, we have been suddenly deprived of a competent, capable and most worthy instructor, whose teachings have been most valuable to us as well as to others who have enjoyed the advantages of the institution. That we feel this loss with peculiar force from the ever pleasant and beneficial relations which have existed between us as teacher and pupils, and from our high regard towards him as a man, a friend, and a companion.

Resolved, That we extend our sympathies to the widow and family of the deceased, and particularly to his brother and associate who has been connected with him in his intercourse with us, and that we can share their sorrow with them under this sudden and severe affliction; that we also regret that our citizens and the commercial community have been deprived of so valuable a citizen and benefactor.

Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the city papers, and a copy of them signed by us, be presented to the widow and brother of the deceased, and that we will attend his funeral services in a body.

W.R. Boldgett
W.P. Tisdell
J.W. Dunning
Thos. Molloy
W.H. Benedict
Committee

The Daily Courier, Syracuse, New York, Saturday, Sept. 18, 1858

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