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- THE BOOK OF DETROITERS
A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of Detroit
Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis (Chicago) A.N. Marquis & Company 1908
BASSETT, Arthur, loan agent; born, Lenawee Co., Mich. Jan. 17, 1851; son of
Nehemiah and Mary (Foster) Bassett; educated in district schools and Ea
Saginaw High School; married at Detroit, November, 1883, Elizabeth C. Fancher.
Began active career as clerk in drug store, East Saginaw, at fifteen years of
age; was connected with wholesale drug house, later in banking institution
three years, and was in drug business for himself nineteen years; has been
special loan agent Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. at Detroit since
1895. Republican. Baptist. member K.O.T.M. Office: 809 Union Trust Bldg.
Residence: 105 Hancock Ave., E.
1930 Federal Census of Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan (15 Apr 193
Arthur Bassett 36 M MI MI MI Head Realtor Real Estate
Jessie 36 F OH MI MI Wife
Elizabeth M. 11 F MI MI MI Daughter
Margaret J. 10 F MI MI MI Daughter
Nancy E. 7 F MI MI MI Daughter
Arthur F. 6 M MI MI MI Son
Ruth A. 1 11/12 F MI MI MI Daughter
Myrtle Lenox 25 F MI MI MI Servant Servant Private Family
(Living at 1417 Vinsette Blvd.) (Married at 24 & 23)
Both Arthur and Elizabeth were still living in 1940.
History of Wayne County, City of Detroit, Michigan (193
Arthur F. Bassett
Arthur F. Bassett, president of the firm Bassett & Smith, Inc.,
realtors, is one of Detroit's well known business men and through his
individual activities has contributed to the advancement and development of
his city and county. He was born in Detroit on the 9th of June, 1893, and is a
son of Arthur and Elizabeth C. (Fancher) Bassett. The family is one of
America's oldest, having been established in this country in 1621 by William
Bassett, who came from England and settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Thus
Arthur F. Bassett is of the ninth generation of the family in this country.
His great-great-grandfather, Nehemiah Bassett, was killed in the Revolutionary
war. His son, also named Nehemiah, who was born in 1776, helped Robert Fulton
build his historic steamboat, and in 1829 he came from Wayne county, New York,
to Monroe county, Michigan, and took up a tract of government land, the
original patent for which, bearing President Andrew Jackson's signature, is
now owned by Arthur F. Bassett. Nehemiah W. Bassett, Mr. Bassett's olde
paternal uncle, was killed in the Civil war. Arthur Bassett came to Detroit in
1869 and died in this city in 1916. He was born in Lenawee county, this state,
on January 17, 1851, a son of Nehemiah and Mary (Foster) Bassett. In his youth
he attended the district schools and completed his studies in the high school
of East Saginaw. When fifteen years of age he began his commercial career as a
clerk in a drug store. Afterwards he was connected with a wholesale drug house
for a time and then spent three years in the banking business. After coming to
Detroit he engaged in the drug business on his own account, conducting it for
nineteen years, or until 1895, when he became a special loan agent for the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company at Detroit. This brought him in
contact with the real estate interests of this city, with which he was closely
identified up to his death. He gave his political support to the republican
party and his religious connection was with the Baptist Church. In November,
1883, he was married to Elizabeth C. Fancher and they became the parents of
two sons, Gilbert L. and Arthur F.
Arthur F. Bassett received his early education in the public schools
of Detroit, attending the Irving school through the grades and graduating from
the Central high school. He then entered the engineering school of the
University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1914. For two years he
followed the engineering profession in connection with the Detroit Steel
Products Company, during a part of which time he was assistant engineer. In
1916 he resigned that position to take up the real estate business, in which
his father had been engaged, and became a partner in the firm of Bassett &
Smith., Inc., the offices of which are now at 2443 First National Bank
building. During the subsequent years his firm has become prominent in the
development of this city, handling some of the leading subdivisions, such as
Vinsetta Park, Woodward Estates, a one hundred acre tract on Woodward avenue,
and others of equally large acreage. Mr. Bassett is the president of the
Vinsetta Land Company, is a director of the First State Bank of Royal Oak,
Oakland county, and a trustee of Hillsdale College.
On June 19, 1917, Mr. Bassett was united in marriage to Miss Jessie I.
Lyon, of Detroit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Lyon, of a well known
family of that city. They are the parents of five children, namely: Elizabeth
Mary, born in Dayton, Ohio, May 2, 1918; Margaret Jean, born in Detroit, August
13, 1919; Nancy Lenore, born October 10, 1922; Arthur Frederick, born February
1, 1924; and Ruth Ann, born May 19, 1928.
Mr. Bassett is a veteran of the late war, in which he served fr
July, 1917, to April, 1919, as a lieutenant junior grade in the United States
navy. Politically he is a strong republican and is greatly interested in
public affairs. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Pontchartrain Club,
the Pine Lake Country Club, the Red Run Golf Club, and is treasurer of the
Detroit Baptist Union, being an active member of the Baptist Church. He is a
progressive business man, a public-spirited citizen and a loyal friend, so
that throughout the city in which he lives he is well and favorably known and
has a large circle of warm friends.
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1893 - Deceased