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- Martin Hezekiah Bassett served in World War I as a private in the Medical Detachment. He was a member of Tulsa Lodge No. 71 A.F. & A.M. He was a union Motion Picture operator.
1870 Federal Census of Arcola, Douglas County, Illinois (30 Jun 1870)
John Kilgore - 47 - M - Ohio - Farmer
Mary - 48 - F - Ohio - Keeping House
Almeda - 22 - F - Indiana
Irene - 19 - F - Indiana
Albert - 14 - M - Illinois
Martin Bassett - 3 - M - Illinois
1880 Federal Census of Arcola, Douglas County, Illinois
William A. Bassett - 48 - M - KY-KY-KY - Head - Magistrate & Ins. Agent
Helen M. - 39 - F - KY-KY-GA - Wife - Milliner
Martin - 13 - M - IL-KY-KY - Son
1900 Federal Census of Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois (14 Jun 1900)
Mart H. Bassett - 32 - Jun 1867 - M - IL-KY-KY - Head - Journalist
Mary - 32 - Dec 1867 - F - IL-KY-IN - Wife
William - 3 - Jul 1896 - M - IL-IL-IL - Son
(Living at 1305 Edgar Avenue)
(Married 9 years, 1 child, 1 living)
M.H. BASSETT MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT AT TULSA
6 Aug 1909
The Daily Oklahoman, 28 Jul 1909
Bassett Dies Of Wounds At Tulsa
Mark Bassett, prospective editor of the Tulsa Evening News, who shot and mortally wounded himself in a local printing plant in this city last Sunday morning, died at Tulsa hospital at 5 o'clock this morning. He was unconscious when found by his son William half an hour after the shooting and he remained in that state until death came.
The finding of the missing purse containing $200 and a diamond in Bassett's room last night destroyed the theory that murder had been committed with robbery as a motive. It is now the general belief that the prominent journalist took his own life.
The body was shipped to Arcola, Ill., this afternoon following ceremonies in the M.E. church by the Masonic order to which the deceased belonged.
1905 Coles County, Illinois History
Martin H. Bassett
BASSETT, Martin H., well-known editor and publisher, Mattoon, Coles County, Ill., was born at Arcola, Ill., June 15, 1867, and there received his education. His parents, William H. and Helen M. (Gruelle) Bassett, are natives of Cynthiana, Ky., and his grandparents, Jonathan and Elizabeth (Discher) Bassett, natives of the same State. Jonathan Bassett, the great-grandfather, was a Virginian. On the mother's side his grandfather, John B. Gruelle, was a native of Kentucky and his grandmother, Prudence (Moore) Gruelle, was born in Macon, Ga., the great-grandfather, William Gruelle, being a native of Lyons, France.
William H. Bassett, father of the subject of this sketch, is editor and publisher of the Charleston, Ill., "Plaindealer-Herald". During the Civil War he enlisted at Mattoon as a private in the Seventy-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was promoted to be Captain of Company K in that regiment. He later served twenty years as County Judge of Douglas County, Ill.
Mr. Bassett learned the printer's trade in the office of the Arcola (Ill.) "Record", becoming an apprentice therein at the age of eleven. He has since served as city editor of the Springfield (Ill.) "Evening Telegram", and from there he went to Chicago, where he served as police and court reporter on papers of that city. In 1895 he bought the "Arcola Record" in 1899 became connected with the "Mattoon Journal" and in August of that year in connection with Hon. Emery Andrews he bought that paper. On January 1, 1905, they sold "The Journal". On September 16, 1891, Mr. Bassett was united in marriage with Mary C. Logan, who was born in Arcola, Ill., where she received her early mental training, afterwards pursuing a course of study in the Oxford (Ohio) Female Seminary. One child resulted from this union: William, who was born in Arcola, Ill., July 17, 1896. Mrs. Bassett is a daughter of Samuel B. Logan, Deputy Sheriff of Coles County, just before Douglas county was created from it, and he was elected the first Sheriff of Douglas County. He enlisted in Mattoon in the Union Army for service in the Civil War; was also a soldier in the Mexican War.
In politics Mr. Bassett is a Republican. In fraternal circles he is identified with the Royal Areanum and the A.F. & A.M.
Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois
J.H. Bassett
J.H. Bassett is the editor and proprietor of the Arthur Graphic, which he bought and took charge of October 1, 1899. The paper was founded in April, 1887, by T.J. Haney, and was edited and owned by him until he sold it to Mr. Bassett. In 1883 he bought the Arcola Record, which he ran until 1886, when he sold it to P.L. Henry. Mr. Bassett was three years and a half in the public printing office at Washington, under the administration of President Harrison, at the end of which time he re-signed and came home. In 1891 he and his father then again purchased the Record and ran it until 1895, selling to B.F. Wamsley. In 1897 he and his brother, M.H. Bassett, who owned the Mattoon Daily Journal, again purchased the Record and Mr. Bassett had sole charge of the paper until January 1, 1899, when the paper was sold to Nathan Collins and son. The Arthur Graphic was originally a five-column newspaper, but has recently been made six by the present proprietor, who has in other ways overhauled the paper and office and considerably increased the circulation.
Mr. Bassett was born Arcola Township, this County, July 19, 1861. In 1882 he married Miss Nora Perkins, who died in 1887. To this union was born one child, Nellie. He again married, in 1895, Miss Maggie Degnan, of Springfield, Illinois, becoming his wife. To them three children have been born, Bessie, Martin and Mary. The Arthur Graphic has a circulation of about five hundred, is well edited and is a very popular local newspaper.
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