{"id":642,"date":"2015-12-05T17:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T01:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2015-12-05T17:10:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T01:10:37","slug":"edward-w-bassett-national-figure-skating-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/edward-w-bassett-national-figure-skating-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward W. Bassett, National Figure Skating Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward W. Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth, Massachusetts as follows:<\/p>\n<p>William Bassett and wife Elizabeth<br \/>\nJoseph Bassett (b. 1635) and wife Martha Hobart<br \/>\nJeremiah Bassett (b. 1678) and wife Mary Felch<br \/>\nJohn Bassett (b. 1725) and wife Sarah Shepard<br \/>\nJohn Bassett (b. 1762) and wife Phebe Noyes<br \/>\nWilliam Bassett (b. 1802) and wife Dora Lucinda Hunt<br \/>\nWilliam Judson Bassett (b. 1844) and wife Margaret A. Cary<br \/>\nEdward W. Bassett (b. 1879)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EdwardWBassett1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-643 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EdwardWBassett1.jpg\" alt=\"EdwardWBassett1\" width=\"429\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EdwardWBassett1.jpg 429w, https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EdwardWBassett1-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>The San Francisco Call, October 10, 1909<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EdwardWBassett2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-644\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EdwardWBassett2.jpg\" alt=\"EdwardWBassett2\" width=\"344\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EdwardWBassett2.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EdwardWBassett2-300x57.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>The International Skatorial Sensation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isabel Butler and Edward Bassett.<\/strong><br \/>\nCHAMPIONSHIP SKATING ON REAL ICE ON CHASE&#8217;S STAGE.<br \/>\nIntroducing Miss Butler, champion woman ice skater, and Barnum &amp; Bailey&#8217;s famous &#8220;Dip of Death&#8221; 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 &#8212; faster than the eye can follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/edward-w-bassett-national-figure-skating-champion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}