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Ransom Hazelip Bassett

Male 1893 - 1924  (30 years)

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  • Name Ransom Hazelip Bassett 
    Birth 8 Jul 1893  Leitchfield, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 4AB8CBBC95C62048A93650C2FB791F19E96E 
    Death 1924  Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Ransom Hazelip Bassett attended Georgetown University and served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He worked for the jewelry firm of A.H. Fetting in Baltimore, and later established his own insurance agency, Bassett Insurance Services, in Louisville, Kentucky.

      Who's Who in Alabama, Volume One (1947)
      Bassett, Ransom Hazelip, insurance broker; b. Louisville, Ky., 8 July 1893; S. Edmund Ruffin Bassett and Lucina Myrtle (Hazelip) B.; ed. Leitchfield (Ky.) High School.; Georgetown (Ky.) College; m. Pauline Louise Overbacker of Louisville, Ky., 3 June 1920. Rep. A.H. Fetting Mfg. Jewelry Co. Baltimore, Md., 1914-17, H.W. Johns-Mansville Co., 1919-21, Bassett Ins. Service, 1923-; sergt. 1st class, Utilities Div. Q.M.C. 1917-19; commended by comdg office; mem. Coll. Fraternity Luncheon; Ky. Soc. S.A.R. (bd. govs.) Nat. Soc. S.A.R. (tr. for Ky., p. vice pres. gen Southern Dist.) Alpha Kappa Order (Candler Province Comdr., 1934-41; exec. xec. and editor Kappa Alpha Journal, 1941-), Coll. Frat. Secs. Assn., Coll. Frat. Editors Ass. Author: occasional stories for fraternity mags. Travel; U.S., Can. Interests; civic, educational work in fraternity life. Recreations; almost all sports, walking. Presbyterian. Independent. Office: 1230-70 Starks Bldg., Louisville 2, Ky. Home: 2199 Barringer Av., Louisville, Ky.
    Person ID I1248  8B John Bassett of Hunterdon County, New Jersey
    Last Modified 8 Jun 2012 

    Father Edmund Ruffin Bassett,   b. 1 Sep 1865, Stephensport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jan 1918, Stephensport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Mother Myrtle Hazelip,   b. 1871   d. 1963 (Age 92 years) 
    Marriage 11 Jun 1890 
    Family ID F353  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Pauline Louise Overbacker 
    Marriage 3 Jun 1921 
    Family ID F427  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart