Allan Lee Bassett descends from #1B John Bassett of Connecticut as follows:
John Bassett and wife Margery
Robert Bassett and wife Mary
Robert Bassett (b. 1640) and wife Elizabeth Riggs
Captain Samuel Bassett (b. 1692) and wife Deborah Bennett
Benjamin Bassett (b. 1740) and wife Molly Hinman
John Bassett (b. 1779) and wife Nancy Atwater Lee
Allan Lee Bassett (b. 1827)
While on a recent business trip to North Haven, Connecticut, my co-worker met with her cousin that works at Prudential Insurance. They dug through the archives and found a few items for me and also sent me a copy of the book “Voices of Prudential and Its People”
From “Voices of Prudential and Its People”
New York Herald-Tribune, December 15, 1892
Allen L. Bassett
Allen L. Bassett, president of the Board of Trade of Newark, died at his house, No. 17 Clinton-ave., Newark, yesterday, in his sixty-sixth year, from pleura-pneumonia. Mr. Bassett was born in Derby, a suburb of New Haven, Conn. Before he was of age he went to New York City and there engaged in the wholesale and jobbing hardware business until the war broke out, when he became captain of Company D, 23d Regiment, New York Volunteers, and served as such until after the battle of Gettysburg. Impaired health compelled him to resign his commission. In 1879 he went to Newark. Within a few years, he organized and became the first president of the Prudential Insurance Company. He remained with that company four years, and then associated himself, as resident manager, with the Metropolitan Industrial Insurance Company, of New York. This position he held at his death. Mr. Bassett became a member of the Newark Board of Trade in June, 1880, and was soon one of its most active and useful members. He was vice-president and president in 1887 and 1888, and was elected again as president that year. Mr. Bassett was a Republican, and he spoke for the party in many campaigns, but the only office he ever held was that of Coroner. He left a widow and two children. The latter are Carroll Phillips Bassett, a civil engineer, and Allena Bassett.
Insurance Policy for Allen L. Bassett
Card showing company officers