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- 1870 Federal Census of Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut (5 Aug 1870)
Jared A. Bassett - 38 - M - Connecticut - Farmer 6000 2205
Elizabeth - 32 - F - Connecticut - Keeping House
Cornelia - 42 - F - Connecticut - At home 3000 1000
Ann E. - 2 - F - Connecticut - At home
COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
JARED A. BASSETT
Jared A. Bassett (deceased), an energetic and skillful agriculturist, who owned and operated a fine farm of forty acres on Sixwell avenue, Hamden, was born Nov. 1, 1832, a son of Jared and Eliza (Bradley) Bassett, and grandson of Timothy Bassett. His birth occurred in the same house in which he lived all his life, and in which he died Dec. 31, 1899.
Jared Bassett, the father, was also born upon the same farm, and throughout his life successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a good sized man, being five feet, eleven inches in height and weighing 165 pounds. Being one of the leading and influential citizens of his community, he was called upon to serve his fellow citizens as selectman of Hamden, and member of the Legislature. In religious faith he was an Eposcopalian and a member of the church of that denomination in Hamden. He died at the age of sixty-six years, and his wife at the age of fifty-five. In their family were three children, namely: Eunice, deceased wife of James T. Mix, of New Haven; Cornelia, who died at about the age of sixty years; and Jared A., cur subject.
Upon the home farm Jared A. Bassett early became familiar with all the duties which fall to the lot of the agriculturist, and his literary education was obtained in the common schools of Hamden and Everest's private school of Centerville. He assisted in the operation of the farm untl his father's death, and then took complete charge of the same. He engaged in general farming and the dairy business, and in his labors met with well-deserved success.
Mr. Bassett was married, Feb. 27, 1862 to Miss Elizabeth A. Percy, of Watertown, Conn., and to them was born a daughter, Annie E., who died at the age of twenty-one years. The Democratic party always found in Mr. Bassett a staunch supporter of its principles, and as a citizen he was ever ready to discharge any duty that devolved upo him.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1832 - 1899 (67 years)