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- HENRY BASSETT, SALT PIONEER, IS DEAD
Liverpool Man Had Been Federal Employee Here and Was Active in Politics
Henry L. Bassett, seventy-one, life long resident of Liverpool, and the son of a pioneer salt boiler, who has long been identified with the salt industry, will be buried tomorrow afternoon at Liverpool, at 2:30 o'clock. The funeral will be held from his home, No. 205 Sycamore street, with Rev. R.H. Fairburn, pastor of the Liverpool Methodist Episcopal Church, officiating.
Mr. Bassett was born in Liverpool, the son of George and Hanna Adams Bassett.
He was at one time a committee-man in the Town of Salina, and was generally well known in Republican political circles.
Later he was employed by the Syracuse internal revenue department and by the engineer's department of the state canal commission, this being his last position. He retired four years ago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lottie Barnes Bassett, one daughter, Mrs. William E. Shanks, of White Plains and two sons, Fred N. Bassett, of Liverpool and George A. Bassett, of Waterloo.
Bassett Funeral Rites Wednesday
Funeral services for Fred N. Bassett, 53, of 207 Sycamore Street, Liverpool, a member of the Liverpool board of trustees, who died Sunday in Crouse-Irving Hospital, will be conducted at 2 P.M. Wednesday at the home. The Rev. Carl C. Swift of Liverpool Methodist Episcopal Church will officiate.
Mr. Bassett was born in Liverpool, a son of Henry L. and Lottie Bassett. His father had been widely known in village and county politics. For the last 18 years, Mr. Bassett was in the grocery business. Previously he had operated a restaurant in Liverpool's West End.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ella Godard Bassett; his mother, Mrs. Lottie Bassett; a sister, Mrs. Harold Crowell, and a brother, George Bassett of Waterloo.
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, d. 18 Apr 1924, Liverpool, Onondaga County, New York