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<\/a>The Makers of St. Louis: A Brief Sketch of the Growth of a Great City\nSheldon H. Bassett<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
He is a member of many important organizations which have for their object the upbuilding of the city\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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) … Continue reading <\/a>S.H. Bassett postcard from ebay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"