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- Washington Death Certificate
J.D. Bassett
Died: 14 September 1937 in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
Age: 79 years, 8 months, 8 days
Married to Alice
Parents: W.E. Bassett and Mary Dowd
Odessa Record
September 16, 1937
J.D. Bassett
Bassett - J.D. Bassett, former Big Bend banker, died at his home at Spokane on Tuesday morning. Born in Connecticut in 1858, a son of a minister, he lived there a time and received his education at Yale. He moved to Ritzville in 1899. He remained there until 1909 and during his residence there organized 12 banks at points in the Inland Empire, including Odessa. He was the principal shareholder and president of each. For the past 17 years he has been state examiner for the division of municipal corporations at Olympia. Mr. Bassett had a long legislative record, serving in the legislature of Connecticut in 1887 and in Washington, both in the house and the senate. Survivors include three chidlren, Joseph E. Bassett, Okanogan, Washington; Mrs. Harold E. Crawford, Walla Walla; and Miss Emma Bassett, at the home, and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday at Westminster Congregational church in Spokane, with Dr. Joel Harper officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Ritzville Journal-Times
Thursday, September 16, 1937
J.D. Bassett Dies at Spokane Home
J.D. Bassett, first banker in Adams county and deputy state auditor for many years, died Tuesday morning at his home in Spokane.
Mr. Bassett moved to Ritzville in 1899 and remained here until 1909, establishing the first bank in Adams county with Ben Martin, brother of W.H. Martin.
During his residence here, Mr. Bassett organized 12 banks at various points in the Inland Empire, being the principal stockholder and president of each.
He formerly lived in Hartington, Nebraska, and was "Harry" Martin's Sunday school teacher when he was young.
For the past 17 years, he was state examiner for the division of municipal corporations at Olympia. He had a long legislative record, serving in the Connectict legislature in 1887 and in Washington, both in the senate and house many sessions.
Mr. Bassett was born at Central Village, Connecticut, Janury 6, 1858. His father, graduate of Yale, was in the ministry of the Congregational church more than a quarter of a century.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Westminister Congregational church in Spokane with services by the Rev. Joel Harper.
Mr. Bassett is survived by three children, Joseph Bassett of Okanogan; Mrs. Harold Crawford, Walla Walla; and Mrs. Emma Bassett, at home, and four grandchildren.
An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country Embracing
Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin Counties
State of Washington (1904)
Hon. John D. Bassett, one of the most widely known bankers in the State of Washington, now living in Ritzville, was born in Plainfield, Connecticut, January 6, 1858, and is descended from an old English family, which came to Connecticut and settled in Guilford in 1660. His father, William E. Bassett, a Congregational minister, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and his mother, Mary (Dowd) Bassett, was also a native of the "Wooden Nutmeg State", and came of one of the old New England families. The father died in 1881 and the mother five years later in Norfolk, Connecticut.
For forty years Mr. Bassett lived in the state of his birth, and was educated in the public schools, Williston seminary, the seminary of East Hampton, Massachusetts, and one year in Yale. In Norfolk he was engaged for several years in the mercantile business and silk manufacturing, being at the time and is yet secretary and treasurer of the Aetna Silk Company. In 1891 he came to Washington and established the Snohomish National Bank, Snohomish, and the Adams County Bank, which in 1901 was converted into a national bank at Ritzville, of which he is president. He also at this time organized the First National Bank of Waterville, of which he was cashier some months. He is now president of the First National Bank of Ritzville, the Odessa State Bank, the Bank of Lind, the Presser State Bank and the Farmers' Bank at Hatton, Washington. He is treasurer of the Sprague Mercantile Company, Sprague, Washington; president of the Ritzville Library and Improvement Association; and president of the Chamber of Commerce.
After leaving school in 1879 Mr. Bassett was for eighteen months employed in the banking house of Cowles & Eldridge, in Norfolk, and in 1881 he went to Minnesota, where he studied law with C.M. Start, now a member of the Minnesota supreme court. He was never admitted to practice, however, but went from Minnesota to Kansas, where he remained two months and returned to the state of his birth. Here he became secretary of the Norfolk Shear Company, and on January 1, 1883, he engaged in the general merchandise business with the firm of Clark & Bassett, in which he was extremely prosperous. In 1890 he sold his interest in business to his partner, and spent the following year in organizing banks at Hartington and Ogalala, Nebraska, and at Dunlap, Iowa.
John D. Bassett has no brothers, but has one sister, Rebecca B., wife of Dr. Plumb-Brown, Springfield, Massachusetts.
On September 30, 1896, John D. Bassett was married to Alice W. Case, a native of Barkhamstead, Connecticut. Her father was also born in that state. This union has been blessed with three children, Joseph E., Mary D., and Emma S.
In fraternity circles Mr. Bassett is affiliated with the Western Star Lodge, No. 37, Norfolk, Connecticut, A.F. and A.M., and both he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star. They are also prominent spirits in the local Congregational church, of which our subject is a deacon.
Mr. John D. Bassett has been unusually prominent and active in political circles, both in his native state and the state of his adoption. He represented his district in the Connecticut State legislature in 1886-1887, and was active in all educational measures and clerk of the temperance committee. He was superintendent of schools and town treasurer for several years; and was registrar of voters for ten years. He has been a Republican all his life, and in addition to the above offices was chairman of the Republican central committee from the eighteenth senatorial district of his native state.
The Seattle Republican
June 5, 1908
J.D. Bassett who made such a splendid record in Olympia as a legislator in the ninth and tenth legislatures, has announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for joint senator from the eleventh senatorial district. Mr. Bassett is a resident of Ritzville, the county seat of Adams county, and has already received the endorsement of his county for the nomination. The Seattle Republican desires to say to the voters of the eleventh senatorial district that they could not find a better man for the position in the entire district than he, and from a result standpoint not one half so good, as he has had the legislative experience and acquaintanceship among the legislators. No man at Olympia among the legislators stood higher in the estimation of the other legislators and the observing public than J.D. Bassett, and if that district wishes results from the next two legislatures it would do well to nominate and elect him to the legislature from the eleventh senatorial district.
1870 Federal Census of Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut (27 Jun 1870)
Wlliam Bassett - 46 - M - Connecticut - Clergyman
Mary - 38 - F - Connecticut - Keeping House
John - 12 - M - Connecticut
Elizabeth - 1 - F- Connecticut
1880 Federal Census of Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Elizin Dowd - 82 - M - CT-CT-CT - Head - Farmer
Rebecca - 65 - F - CT-CT-CT - Wife - Keeping House
Susan R. - 42 - F - CT-CT-CT - Other - Domestic
Elizin D. - 48 - M - CT-CT-CT - Other - Farm Laborer
John D. Bassett - 22 - M - CT-CT-CT - Grandson - Bank Clerk
1900 Federal Census of Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut (12 Jun 1900)
John D. Bassett - 42 - M - Jan 1858 - CT-CT-CT - Head - Banker
Alice E. - 34 - F - Jan 1866 - CT-CT-CT - Wife
Joseph E. - 11 - M - Nov 1888 - CT-CT-CT - Son - At School
Mary D. - 10 - F - Dec 1889 - CT-CT-Ct - Daughter - At School
Emma S. - 7 - F - Sep 1892 - CT-CT-CT - Daughter - At School
(Married 3? years, 3 children, 3 living)
1900 Federal Census of German Township, Adams County, Washington (2 Jun 1900)
John D. Bassett - 42 - M - Jan 1858 - CT-CT-CT - Head - Capitalist
Alice O. - 34 - F - Jun 1866 - CT-CT-CT - Wife
Joseph E. - 11 - M - Nov 1888 - CT-CT-CT - Son - At School
Emma S. - 7 - F - Sep 1892 - CT-CT-CT - Daughter - At School
1930 Federal Census of Spokane, Spokane County, Washington (4 Apr 1930)
John D. Bassett - 72 - M - CT-CT-CT - Head - Accountant State
Alice C. - 64 - F - CT-CT-CT - Wife
Emma - 37 - F - CT-CT-CT - Daughter - Stenographer Law Office
(Living at 29 Seventeenth Avenue)
(Married at 29 & 31)
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Bassett Family Association Database
1858 - 1937 (79 years)