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- HISTORY OF WESTERN NEW YORK
(III) William L., only son of Charles L. Bassett, was born in Kendall,
New York, September 6, 1865. He was educated in the public school and at La
Porte Business College. On completing his school years he went west, and for a
time was engaged in the lumber business in Kansas. He returned to La Porte,
and for a few years was in charge of a farm there. He again went west and was
engaged in the lumber business at Hutchinson, Kansas, then again to La Porte,
then Butte, Montana, then Bedford, Indiana, then was for a number of years in
Ohio. He finally returned to his native state, where he cultivated a large
farm in Orleans county. He is a Democrat in politics and unmarried.
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