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<\/a>Edwin P. Palmer & Sons ad for sale on e-bay<\/p>\nNewspaper and date unknown<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 News has been received of the death of Edwin P. Bassett, son of the late Dea. Joseph P. Bassett, who passed away at Ossining, N.Y., his country home, October 3d. He was born April 25th, 1832, on the Bassett homestead in the Rice Village district. After leaving school, he started on his life career as clerk in the Harding P. Woods store; later he went to Athol, clerking in the store of Bassett & Chickering. In a few years he took a position in the store of his brother-in-law, the late Mr. Emory Thayer, at Charleston, South Carolina, wehre he remained until the opening of the civil war, when he was compelled to leave for the North. He married Miss Lizzie Barton of Phillipston. Going to Brooklyn, N.Y., which has always been their home, he accepted a position as salesman in the wholesale straw goods store of Mr. Davis Thayer, of New York city. He afterward, with E. Snow, bought out the business and built a factory for the manufacturing of the goods at Franklin. The Bassett, Snow Co. was of short duration. Mr. Snow going out of the firm, the two sons, Edwin B. and Joseph P., were taken in, and the firm was then known as Bassett & Sons. They carried on a successful business for many years. On account of declining health, Mr. Bassett has spent the last years of his life in his country home on the Hudson. He is survived by his widow, two sons, Edwin B. and Joseph P. Bassett, and a daughter, Mrs. Josephine Barlow, also a sister, Mrs. Mary Stone of Orange, and two brothers, Charles S. Bassett of Franklin, and Henry M. Bassett of this town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Edwin Palmer Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows: William Bassett and wife Elizabeth Joseph Bassett (b. 1635) and wife Mary Lapham William Bassett (b. 1667) and wife Sarah Sweetland William Bassett (b. 1694) and wife Mary Crossman … Continue reading