Bassett Family Association Database

Doctor Henry Linn Bassett

Male Abt 1874 - 1958  (~ 84 years)


Personal Information    |    PDF

  • Name Henry Linn Bassett 
    Prefix Doctor 
    Born Abt 1874  Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 2D9C69C87328DB4687B3BA81DFDA54EE2698 
    Died 29 Nov 1958  Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried St. Andrews Cemetery, Yardley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Trenton Evening Times, December 1, 1958
      Dr. Bassett Dead at 84
      Dr. Henry Bassett, 84, of 70 South Main Street, Yardley, died Saturday in Mercer Hospital, where he was a staff member over 20 years.
      A former president of the Yardley Board of Health, Dr. Bassett graduated from Princeton University in 1898 and three years later received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College.
      He was a member of the American Medical Association and the Bucks County Medical Society. He had been active in the Boy Scouts of America and the Yardley Lions Club.
      Husband of the late Mary T. Simpson Bassett, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Richard A. Morse of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Cornelius H. Haman of Balboa, Canal Zone, and Mrs. Hardwick T. Lord of Summit; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
      Services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Fitzgerald Funeral Home, 17 South Delaware Avenue, Yardley, with the Rev. Philip F. Palmer of Yardley Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be in St. Andrew's Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow evening.

      Trenton Evening Times, Tuesday, December 2, 1958
      Deaths
      Bassett - in Mercer Hospital, on November 29, Dr. Henry Linn Bassett of 70 S. Main St., Yardley, Pa. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral from the Fitzgerald Funeral Home, 17 S. Delaware Ave., Yardley, on Wednesday morning at 11 A.M. Interment St. Andrews Cemetery, Yardley, Pa. Friends may call Tuesday evening 7 to 9.

      Trenton Evening Times, February 6, 1953
      Doctor, Wife Are Injured In Smashup
      An auto crash on Sanhican Drive last night injured Dr. Henry Linn Bassett, 79, of 70 South Main Street, Yardley, and his wife, Mary, 80.
      Mrs. Bassett suffered a fracture of the left leg. She is in Mercer Hospital. Dr. Bassett escaped with face cuts.
      The physician's car collided with a parked auto owned by Philip Vuksanovich, 30, of 140 Sanhican Drive.
      Fire broke out in the badly damaged cars, which were mashed together in the crash.
      Vuksanovich, hearing the noise of the crash, ran to the scene. He put out the flames with an extinguisher borrowed from a service station at Sanhican Drive and Mill Road opposite the Brookville Apartments.
      Mrs. Bassett was removed from the auto unconscious. She and her husband were sent to the hospital in a police ambulance.
      Dr. Bassett has practiced medicine at Yardley for almost a half century. As he lay upon the emergency room examining table under treatment by a young intern last night, Dr. Bassett's concern was for Mrs. Bassett.
      "How is my wife? What's her pulse and blood pressure?", he asked.
      Patrolman Robert Bradley said Dr. Bassett told him that he misjudged his distance in passing the parked auto. The physician was charged with careless driving.


      1880 Federal Census of Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey
      Granville Bassitt - 46 - M - NJ-NJ-NJ - Head - Dealer in Flour
      Julia - 42 - F - PA-PA-PA - Wife - Keeping House
      Henry L. - 6 - M - PA-NJ-PA - Son

      1920 Federal Census of Yardley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (10 Jan 1920)
      Henry L. Bassett - 45 - M - PA-NJ-PA - Head - Doctor Medicine
      Mary T. - 47 - F - KS-PA-PA - Wife
      Linda M. - 15 - F - PA-PA-KS - Daughter
      Caroline S. - 13 - F - PA-PA-KS - Daughter
      Juliet L. - 8 - F - PA-PA-KS - Daughter
      Juliet H. - 83 - F - PA-PA-PA - Mother
      Harry South - 46 - M - PA-PA-PA - Servant - Chauffer Private Family
      (Living on South Main Street)

      Trenton Evening Times, April 29, 1905
      Granville Bassett Dead
      Yardley, April 29. - Granville Bassett, 72 years old, died Thursday evening at the home of his son, Dr. H. Linn Bassett, of this place. Death was due to a complication of diseases. For 25 years Mr. Bassett had been totally blind and had been confined to his bed for the past year, suffering from paralysis. The funeral will be Monday at 2 o'clock. Interment will be at St. Andrew's P.E. cemetery.

      Doylestown Intelligencer 1925 obituaries
      14 May 1925
      Juliet Hellings Bassett
      Juliet Hellings Bassett, daughter of the late John and Phoebe Breisford Hellings, died Wednesday morning, May 6, at the home of her son, Dr. H. Linn Bassett, Yardley. She was born near Emile, September 3, 1836. When less than 18 years old she went direct from Bristol high school as teacher in the Bristol schools. She married Granville Bassett, who died in 1905, in 1873. From 1880 to 1903, they lived in Langhorne and since that time she has lived with her son in Yardley. She was a sister of Mrs. Annie Sisty, widow of Rev. Mahlon H. Sisty, who died in May 1924. Of an exceptionally bright mind and a great reader, Mrs. Bassett has always been associated with affairs of literary nature.
    Person ID I1783  4B William Bassett of Lynn, Massachusetts
    Last Modified 6 Jul 2012 

    Father Granville Bassett,   b. Abt 1835, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 1905, Yardley, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Mother Juliet Hellings,   b. 3 Sep 1836,   d. 6 May 1925, Yardley, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 1873 
    Family ID F454  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary T. Simpson,   d. Aug 1957, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Helen Rae Bassett,   b. 6 Sep 1904,   d. 1 Oct 1918  (Age 14 years)
     2. Linda H. Bassett,   b. 6 Sep 1904, Yardley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jan 1988, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
    +3. Caroline Simpson Bassett,   b. 2 Mar 1906, Yardley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Nov 1988, Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)
     4. Juliet Leeds Bassett,   b. 15 Nov 1911, Lower Makefield, Bucks County, Pennslyvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Mar 1998, Phillipsburg, Warren County, Pennslyvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
    Family ID F607  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart