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Matthew Bassett

Male - 1984


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  • Name Matthew Bassett 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1984  Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    • Boston Herald, Massachusetts, Friday, November 15, 1940
      C.R. Bassett, Yarmouth, Dies
      Headed Selectmen For Past 40 Years

      YARMOUTHPORT, Nov. 14 ? Charles R. Bassett, 75, chairman of the board of selectman in Yarmouth for the past 40 years, died late last night at the Cape Cod Hospital of pneumonia. He had been critically ill since Saturday.
      Funeral services will be held at 2 P.M. Saturday at his home. Burial will be in Woodside cemetery.
      One of the leaders in town and county civic affairs since he first took office in 1900, he was one of the oldest selectmen in point of consecutive service in Massachusetts. Organizer and first president of the Southeastern Massachusetts Association of health boards and secretary of the Cape Cod Health Bureau. He was author of the legislative bill which more than a decade ago established the Barnstable County Sanatorium at Pocasset.
      Besides serving as chairman of the combined boards of selectmen, assessors and public welfare in Yarmouth, he was a representative to the General Court from the second Barnstable district in 1925 and 1926. He was a former associate county commissioner and a director of the Cape Cod Co-operative Bank, and was instrumental in the establishment of the Yarmouth Water Company. He was for 40 years a member of Howard lodge, A.F. and A.M. in South Yarmouth. A native of Barnstable, he was a son of the late Charles and Mary Howes Bassett.
      Surviving are his widow, the former Mercy T. Nickerson of Yarmouth, whom he married Nov. 21, 1899; two sons, Charles Sidney Bassett of Sagamore and Harold Howes Bassett, and a daughter, Mrs. John E. Bernie of Quincy.
    Person ID I17534  14B Jean Besset of Quebec
    Last Modified 19 May 2016 

    Father Harold Raymond Bassett, Jr.,   b. 9 Jun 1926, Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jan 1993, Springfield, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Rita M. Florini,   b. 10 Apr 1930, North Adams, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Feb 2024  (Age 93 years) 
    Family ID F4951  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart