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1910 Federal Census of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA (15 Apr 1910)
Ira S. Bassett 36 M OH OH OH Head Traffic Manager *
Lola D. 35 F OH OH OH Wife
Lillian G. 12 F OH OH OH Daughter
(Living at 7436 Monticello St.) (*Traffic Manager Chamber of Commerce)
(Married 14 years, 1 child, 1 living)
1920 Federal Census of Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County, PA (5 Jan 1920)
Ira S. Bassett 45 M OH OH OH Head Evangelist Churches
Lohala D. 44 F OH OH OH Wife
L. Genieve 21 F OH OH OH Daughter Clerk Railroad
(Living at 817 Penn Ave.)
1930 Federal Census of Swissvale, Allegheny County, PA (3 Apr 1930)
Thomas D. Mark 33 M ST ST ST Head Clerk Railroad
Genive 32 F OH OH OH Wife
Lilian 7 F PA ST OH Daughter
Virginia 4 F PA ST OH Daughter
Ira S. Basset 56 M OH OH OH FatherL Evangelist Church
Lola H. 55 F OH OH OH MotherL
(Living at 7354 Whipple Street) (Married at 23 & 22)
(Ira and Lola married at 21 & 20) (ST ? Scotland)
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio, October 6, 1918
Plain Dealer Newsboy, Now Energetic, Head of Nineteen Business Concerns
(Picture of Ira S. Bassett)
From a newsboy selling The Plain Dealer in the streets of Loudonville, O., to the head of nineteen different business enterprises, all within twenty-five years, is the record made by Ira S. Bassett of Pittsburg. Mr. Bassett had said that he owes much of his business success to the start and training he received selling The Plain Dealer. He used to meet the train that brought The Plain Dealer to Loudonville and, with papers under his arm, hustled through the town, earning his first ?bank roll?.
?It was a pleasure as well as good business to sell The Plain Dealer,? said Mr. Bassett, ?for the paper was such superiority in point of news and make up that it really sold itself. I sold so many of them that I was able to save money and finally get started for Pittsburg.?
Mr. Bassett has little to say of his success since coming to Pittsburg. He does not have to say anything. The fact is that he has become the chief executive of the Ira S. Bassett interests and nineteen various businesses. His first trip back into the Cleveland district, after launching on the road to success in Pittsburg, was as traffic manager of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce. Later he made the trip as commissioner of the Pittsburg Commercial Club, which aggressive and progressive organization he founded practically alone.
In all his worldly success he has not forgotten his duty toward God. He gives more than one tenth, much more, each year, of his income. Many are the churches, charities and philanthropies that he has aided, although little is publicly known of his benefactions. The only rescue mission in the state of Pennsylvania, exclusively for the down-and-out negro, has been supported almost entirely by him.
Nor is it money alone that he gives to God?s work. Considerable of his time he devotes to ?doing his bit?, as he calls the duty, in behalf of the church. Although he never misses a day as his desk, he devotes many a night to preaching the gospel, not only Sunday nights, but week day nights.
Not many months ago a campaign against vice was planned by Woodlawn, Pa., a town located in the Pittsburg district. Mr. Bassett responded to the demand that he lead the fight. A tabernacle was built and there, every night, he preached.
Then Pittsburg wanted him for a similar campaign and a tabernacle was built on Mr. Washington, where he waged war on sin, then going to the North Side, where he preached from the pulpit of the large Manchester church, then to the Avalon-Bellevue district. He started the most unique campaign ever launches in Pittsburg, known as a ?from-the-pew? movement, in which clergymen were conspicuous by being mere spectators, while laymen directed the fight to reclaim men for the church. This campaign was waged in the Oakland district, where most of the student population dwells and where most of the rooming houses exist.
He is soon to go to Ohio to take the stump in behalf of a dry state. Many have been the demands from all parts of the nation for his time and services, which he gives without remuneration. But he has found it impossible to go farther away from Pittsburg than a night?s ride, because he has made it a practice to be at his desk daily.
The Canton Repository, March 12, 1931
Tabernacle Service Attended By 1,600
Ira S. Bassett Preaches On Life Of ?Naaman, The Leper?
More than 1,600 persons attended the Bassett interchurch evangelistic campaign in the tabernacle at Dueber-Hampden grounds Wednesday night when Ira S. Bassett, lay-evangelist, preached on the life of ?Naaman, the Leper.?
Wilkes-Barre Times, November 26, 1918
No Bail Furnished For Ira S. Bassett
Pittsburgh, Nov. 26 ? No bondsman had appeared to furnish $35,000 bail for Ira S. Bassett and he was still in jail today awaiting grand jury action on charges of consipiracy and fraudulent concealment of assets. Three of his alleged co-workers in the alleged ?blind pool? and evangelistic party, were held under $10,000 bail each by Magistrate Sweeney.
Of the millions they are alleged to have collected from willing dupes, only $22 and a broken down automobile have been discovered in the search for assets, it was stated by Attorney James, Sachs, representing the receivers.
New Castle News, Wednesday, October 23, 1918
Ira S. Bassett Under Arrest
Pittsburg Business Man ? Evangelist Charged With Concealing $400,000 of Assets
(International News Service)
PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 23 ? Charged with concealing $400,000 of his assets and of conspiracy to defraud, Ira S. Bassett, the businessman evangelist, whose failure a few days ago disclosed that he had hundreds of victims who had loaned money to him for investment, was under police custody today in the St. Francis hospital.
According to Attorney Sachs, who is acting for some of Bassett?s clients, the businessman evangelist has liabilities between $3,000,000 and $5,000,000. It is said the number of persons who gave their money to Bassett for investment will number into the thousands.
Bassett?s method of conducting business is under close scrutiny. Promising 10 to 20 per cent on loans of money for a few days on the claim that when his promises were made good in the first instance he gained the confidence of his friends and his clients grew rapidly.
The Book of Prominent Pennsylvanians: a standard reference
Ira S. Bassett (Picture included)
Everybody within a radius of 5,000 miles or more of Pittsburgh remembers the famous Trade Tour that was carried to a successful and profitable consummation by Pittsburgh manufacturers not so very long ago. The Trade Tourists on that occasion occupied a train made and equipped in Pittsburgh, and the spaces not occupied by the tourists were filled with products of manufacture that were given out en route. The object was to boost trade in Pittsburgh, and that is exactly what it did. In charge of that tour was Ira S. Bassett, who also first suggested it. He was Traffic Manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh from 1907 to 1913, and has just been appointed Commissioner of the Pittsburgh Commercial Club, where he will have full charge of the workings of that organization. Born in Loudonville, Ohio, March 19, 1874, he entered the services of the Pennsylvania Lines West as telegraph operator at Freedom, Pa., in 1893. He was a traffic manager when he resigned in 1907.
The Canton Repository, November 30, 1943
Mrs. William Bucy
KILLBUCK ? Services for Mrs. Jessie Bucy, 66, of Killbuck, who died Sunday in the home after a long illness, will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the residence. Rev. Frank Mitzel will officiate with burial in Killbuck cemetery. Friends may call at the residence tonight.
A native of Killbuck twp, Mrs. Bucy was a member of Killbuck Methodist church. She is survived by her husband, William Bucy; her mother, Mrs. Lucille Duncan, and a sister, Mrs. Lolah Bassett, all of the home.
The Canton Repository, August 16, 1947
Rev. Conn to Speak at 75th Anniversary of Killbuck Church
(Excerpt)
At the afternoon meeting Mrs. Lola Bassett, daughter of the church?s only living charter member, Mrs. Lillie Duncan, will read a historical account of the church.
Mrs. Duncan, now 91 years old, who became one of the church?s 20 charter members in 1972 when she was 16 years old, many not be able to attend the celebration, Rev. S.R. Clark, the present pastor said.
However, it is expected he will be represented by two granddaughters and a great-granddaughter in addition to Mrs. Bassett. All are members of the church, which now has a total of 288 members.
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1874 - 1931 (56 years)