Sheldon H. Bassett descends from #1B John Bassett of Connecticut:
John Bassett and wife Margery
Robert Bassett and wife Mary
Robert Bassett (b. 1640) and wife Elizabeth Riggs
Samuel Bassett (b. 1692) and wife Deborah Bennett
Ebenezer Bassett (b. 1731) and wife Hannah Smith
James Bassett (b. 1757) and wife Betsey Canfield
William Bassett (b. 1781) and wife Lucy Smith
Sheldon Bassett (b. 1805) and wife Harriet Lenora Hull
Royal Molton Bassett (b. 1828) and wife Frances J. Stratton
Sheldon H. Bassett (b. 1867)
The Makers of St. Louis: A Brief Sketch of the Growth of a Great City
Sheldon H. Bassett
St. Louis is widely known as one of the greatest manufacturing and distributing points for cement in the world, and the name of Mr. Bassett is prominently connected with this great and growing industry. As president of the Iola Portland Cement Company he is a power in the commercial life of the city. Though he has resided here only a short time he has made his influence by reason of his energy and his progressiveness in promoting the interests of his adopted home.
He is a member of many important organizations which have for their object the upbuilding of the city’s trade and in the conduct of his own business he has introduced many modern methods which he learned in his extensive travels both at home and abroad. He has a thorough and practical knowledge of the cement business, and is general manager as well as president of the big corporation with which he is connected.
Mr. Bassett is a native of Connecticut, having been born in Derby in 1868. After studying in the public schools of that place he received a thorough technical education in American colleges, after which he was sent to Germany to gain additional knowledge of chemistry and allied branches. Throughout the greater part of his commercial career he has been connected with the cement business. The rapid and remarkable growth of St. Louis early attracted his attention and the more he learned about the Western metropolis the more convinced was he that it would be the ideal distributing point for the product of his factories. Accordingly, after carefully looking over the field, he located here three years ago. Since then his business has steadily increased and he is now as firm a champion and as deep an admirer of St. Louis as though he had lived here all his life.
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