Charles Wallace Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows:
William Bassett and wife Elizabeth
William Bassett (b. 1624) and wife Mary Raynesford
Nathan Bassett (b. 1677) and wife Mary Huckens
William Bassett (b. 1702) and wife Ann Mayhew
Nathan Bassett (b. 1751) and wife Martha Bassett
Nathan Bassett (b. 1785) and wife Rhoda Merry
Isaac Chauncey Bassett (b. 1815) and wife Lucinda Boutwell
Charles Wallace Bassett (b 1844)
History of Chicago: From the fire of 1871 until 1885
By Alfred Theodore Andreas
C.W. Bassett was born at Three Rivers, Mich., in 1844. At the breaking out of the Rebellion, he entered the Army as hospital steward of the 25th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and served as such until the close of the War. he then became employed as a clerk in a general merchandise store in Mattawan, Mich., and two years afterward engaged in that business on his own account, which he continued up to 1877. He then went to Saguache, Colo., and established a general merchandise business, under the firm name of Peyton & Bassett, which continued up to 1879, when Mr. Bassett sold out his interest, and went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as cashier of the Star Wagon Company, a position he held up to 1882, when he became a member of the firm of Charles Truax & Co. He married Mary A. Ayres, daughter of J.S. Ayres, M.D., of Kalamazoo, Mich.
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