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Buffalo Evening News, 27 February 1901
Seth C. Bassett of Haverhill, Mass., arrived in Buffalo this morning for the purpose of making arrangements to conduct excursions to the Pan-American Exposition next summer. He reports that many people in Eastern Massachusetts are planning to see the Pan-American, stimulated by the three-fold attraction of the unrivaled fame of the beauty of the Exposition, its nearness to Niagara Falls, and low railroad rates.
The Popular Science News
Boston, February 1, 1893
As will be seen by a notice in another column, Mr. Seth C. Bassett has closed his connection with the Science News, after being associated with the present editor as part proprietor and business manager for the past ten years. It gives us pleasure to acknowledge the value of Mr. Bassett?s services to the paper, the prosperity of which during that time has been largely due to his eminent business ability, while a long and harmonious business association has led to a full appreciation of his many admirable personal characteristics. Mr. Bassett is to enter a large shoe manufacturing firm in Haverhill, Mass., and will take with him the best wishes of all who have had business dealings with him in the past, as well as those of his former associates on the staff of the Science News.
The Story of Essex County, Volume IV
Seth C. Bassett
To hundreds of folk of two generations the name of the late Seth C.
Bassett is held in grateful memory, if only because he introduced a new and
valuable method of enjoying life. A native of Levell, Maine, and from boyhood
familiar with the mountains and valleys, the winters and the summers of
northern New England, he hit upon the idea of trying to get other people to
know and appreciate the winters of the north country. In 1895 he started the
small tourist agency which later was to become so widely known, and he
investigated the advantages of the various places he knew as possible
headquarters for winter sports. He chose Intervale, New Hampshire, as the spot
most suitable, accessible and picturesque. Persuading a few to make up a party
for a winter trip to his base between the mountains, he personally conducted
the group and directed their sports. In this simple fashion was the winter
sports idea born and Intervale made the Mecca of the winter sports lovers,
particularly the girls of Bradford and Abbott academies, the Lasell, Rogers
Hall, and Sargent schools, Radcliffe College, and many other groups whi
annually made their way to Intervale. When Mr. Bassett conducted his first
parties, the stagecoach was the only method of transportation available, which
perhaps made the journey more thrilling than today.
Besides being the pioneer in organizing and developing winter sports,
Seth C. Bassett also established a travel bureau whose scope was the globe. In
Haverhill he also carried on an extensive business in insurance, both of which
activities are now under the management of his wife, Lillian Y. Bassett. At
one time Seth C. Bassett was part owner of the Haverhill "Gazette", the
leading newspaper of the city, and was an important factor in bringing about a
rise in circulation from six hundred to nine thousand. After selling out his
newspaper interests, for a time he was the proprietor of the Boston "Journal
of Chemistry."
Seth C. Bassett died on July 4, 1930, sincerely mourned by the
thousands all over the world with whom he had come in personal contact. He had
contributed to the sum total of the recreative pleasures of life, a mode of
enjoyment that was entirely wholesome and beneficial. This is his true
memorial. In Haverhill he had been a useful and public-spirited citizen who
had won the respect and affection of its citizens. He was a popular figure in
Merrimack Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and a Knights Templar and was a
member also of the Pentucket Club. Mr. Bassett is survived by his widow,
Lillian Y. (Bassett) Bassett, member of the Haverhill Women's City Club, and
prominent in social, civic and humanitarian circles.
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1851 - 1930 (78 years)