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- 1850 Federal Census of Centre Township, Marion County, Indiana (17 Jul 1850)
Horace Bassett 67 M Connecticut 5000
Amanda 45 F New York
Harriette 22 F Indiana
Julia 20 F Indiana
Edward S. 18 M Indiana
Henry B. 16 M Indiana
Horace H. 13 M Indiana
Hannah Williard 11 F Ireland
1860 Federal Census of Indianapolis, Marion County, IN (20 Jun 1860)
Horace Bassett 65 M North Carolina Judge
Mary 50 F North Carolina
Edward 30 M Indiana Druggist
History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana (188
Horace Bassett was born in Mansfield, Conn., January 18, 1782. In
early life he immigrated to Vermont; he there studied law with Col. Mattox,
and followed his profession successfully - for some time filling the office of
State's attorney. He removed to Indiana in 1820, and settled at Aurora. In
1822 he was elected to the Legislature which met at Corydon, and continued to
represent the district in which he lived for six years. He was a member of the
first Legislature that assembled at Indianapolis. It was through his
instrumentality, in about the year 1822, that the township system was adopted
as a system local to Dearborn County. Twenty years later, when, by the
adoption of the new constitution of the State, legislation concerning
townships, county business was required to be uniform. Impressed with t
value of the system, William S. Holman, another member from Dearborn County in
the State Legislature, introduced the bill extending the system to all the
counties of the State. This bill passed, and the township system, although
since greatly modified, became the permanent policy of Indiana. In 1832 he was
one of the commissioners who removed the Indians from this State to the far
West, beyond the Mississippi. Two years afterward he was appointed by Judge
Holman, clerk of the United States Circuit and District Courts, which office he
held till the time of his death. He became a resident of Indianapolis in 1840,
and died in that city December 18, 1860. Mr. Bassett was universally respected
and loved by those who knew him. His natural intelligence, united with
extensive reading, in which much of his time was spent, rendered him a
favorite companion in the social circle. At his death the committee appointed
to draft and adopt resolutions expressive of the feelings of the members of
the bar and officers of the United States Circuit Court said :"Inasmuch as it
has pleased our Heavenly Father to call to Himself our friend and brother,
Horace Bassett, Esq., who for so many years past has been clerk of the Circuit
Court of the United States, we his friends and associates have met to pay our
tribute of respect to and veneration for his memory. It is not so much his
long and useful life as a lawyer, a legislator and an officer of court, as his
high merits as a man and Christian, which we desire to commemorate."
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