Edward W. Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth, Massachusetts as follows:
William Bassett and wife Elizabeth
Joseph Bassett (b. 1635) and wife Martha Hobart
Jeremiah Bassett (b. 1678) and wife Mary Felch
John Bassett (b. 1725) and wife Sarah Shepard
John Bassett (b. 1762) and wife Phebe Noyes
William Bassett (b. 1802) and wife Dora Lucinda Hunt
William Judson Bassett (b. 1844) and wife Margaret A. Cary
Edward W. Bassett (b. 1879)
The San Francisco Call, October 10, 1909
The International Skatorial Sensation.
Isabel Butler and Edward Bassett.
CHAMPIONSHIP SKATING ON REAL ICE ON CHASE’S STAGE.
Introducing Miss Butler, champion woman ice skater, and Barnum & Bailey’s famous “Dip of Death” girl and Mr. Edward Bassett, winner of the International figure skating Championship at St. Nicholas Rink, New York City, march, 1907, in an exhibition of artistic grapevines, waltzing, spins, etc. singly and together., including a marvelous human top spin by Mr. Bassett in which he spins at the rate of five hundred revolutions a minute — faster than the eye can follow.