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Gilman A. Bass

Male 1826 - 1904  (77 years)


Personal Information

  • Name Gilman A. Bass 
    Born 9 Aug 1826  Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 30 Mar 1904 
    Buried Inland Cemetery, Bennett, Cedar County, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 

    • A Topical History of Cedar County, Iowa, Volume 2 (1910)
      Gilman A. Bass

      Gilman A. Bass, who died in Inland township on the 10th of Marcy, 1904, was long successfully engaged in the real-estate and loan business here bu spent the last seven years of his life in honorable retirement. His brith occurred in Orange county, Vermont, on the 9th of August, 1826, his parents being Alpheus and Sarah (Copeland) Bass, who were farming people of that county. He supplemented his preliminary education by a course of study in the Middlebury Seminary of Vermont and subsequently followed the profession of school teaching in the Grean Mountain state. In 1857 he removed to Big Rock, Iowa, where he also taught school, and in the spring of 1858 went to Davenport, there devoting his attention to the study of law. He next came to Tipton and there made his home for nearly frive years with the exception of eight months spent as a soldier in the Union army. He enlisted for service in October, 1864, and was honorably discharged in June, 1865, having accompanied Sherman on his march to the sea. In 1866 he took up his above in Inland township, where he embarked in the real-estate and loan business, carrying on an extensive and successful enterprise of that character until the time of his retirement in 1897. The last few years of his life were spent in the home of his daughter, Abbie.
      On the 10th of September, 1861, Mr. Bass was joined in wedlock to Miss Martha Marsh, a daughter of Daniel and Aurelia (Gould) Marsh, who came to this county from Ohio in 1854. Their children were three in number, two of whom died in infancy. The surviving daughter is Abbie L.
      Mr. Bass was a republican in politics, ever being a stanch supported of the party which was the defense of the Union during the dark days of the Civil war. His business record was always such as won for him respenct and regard as well as success, and all who knew him entertained for him warm esteem, for his salient qualities were those of honorable, upright manhood. He was called to his final rest when in the seventy-eighth year of his age and in his passing Cedar county lost one of its widely known and resprenstative citizens.
      Miss Abbie L. Bass gave her hand in marriage to Marion M. Blazer, a son of George W. and Catherine (Scarlet) Blazer, who came to this county from Ohio in the ?60s. Marion M. Blazer obtained his early education in the district schools here and afetward pursued the fine arts course in the Valparaiso Normal School. He taught school during one winter term and then turned his attention to general agricultural pursuits, being engaged in farming for six years. On the expiration of that period he became identified with the real-estate and loan business, continuing in that field of activity until his demise, which occurred on the 2d of January, 1907. Unto him and his wife were born four children, namely; Edith M.; Silas G.; Inez M.; and Ira F., who died in infancy. Mr. Blazer gaive his political allegiance to the republican party, believing firmly in its principles. His widow still survives and makes her home in Bennett, where she has an extensive circle of warm friends.


      History of Cedar
      County, Iowa, 1878.

      Bass, G. A., farmer, Section 11; Post Office Inland; born August 9, 1826, in Orange County, Vermont; in 1832, parents went to Washington County, Vermont; came to this State in the Fall of 1857; taught school in Big Rock, Scott County, Iowa, the following Winter; went to Davenport in the Spring and remained one and half years; then came to Tipton and remained nearly five years, except about eight months. When he was in the army, was with Sherman in his march to the sea; came home June, 1865, and in 1866 came to this Township. Married Martha Marsh, September 10, 1861; she was born November 25, 1828, in New Hampshire; have one daughter living--Abbie L., born February 2, 1864; Francis G. and Martha A. being dead. Mrs. Bass' father and mother are living with them; they are nearly 80 years old. Mr. Bass has served as Justice of the Peace four years, and is acting as such now.

    Person ID I1103  Bass2B Samuel Bass of Braintree
    Last Modified 24 Oct 2020 

    Father Alpheus Bass,   b. 10 Dec 1802, Braintree, Orange County, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 May 1867, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Sally Copeland,   b. 1805,   d. 1870  (Age 65 years) 
    Family ID F220  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Martha Marsh,   b. 1828,   d. 1899  (Age 71 years) 
    Children 
     1. Abbie L. Bass,   b. 1864,   d. 1958  (Age 94 years)
     2. Martha A. Bass,   b. 1871,   d. 1871  (Age 0 years)
    Last Modified 24 Oct 2020 
    Family ID F264  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart