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- National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Bassett, Samuel Hopkins, physician, was born in Coleman Station, New York, December 7, 1897, son of William and Matilda (Glasgow) Bassett. His father was a farmer. Samuel H. Bassett received his preliminary education at public schools in Coleman Station and was graduated A.B. in 1920 and M.D. in 1924 at Cornell University. After serving an internship in 1924-1925 at the Reconstruction Hospital, New York City, he joined the staff of New York Hospital, where in 1925-1926 he successively was junior assistant physician, ambulance surgeon, senior assistant physician, and house physician. He then was assistant resident physician at the Lane Hospital, San Francisco, California, for a short time in 1927, after which he was resident physician and instructor in medicine at the Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, in 1927-1928. Joining the teaching staff of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester in 1928 an an instructor in medicine, he was appointed assistant professor in 1930 and associate professor in 1941, continuing in the last-named capacity until 1948. From 1945 to 1948 he was also head of the university's section on human metabolism and was associated with the institution's atomic energy program conducted in connection with the Manhattan Project (later U.S. Atomic Energy Commission). In 1948 he was appointed by the Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., as chief of research at its center in Los Angeles, California, assigned to establish a nucleus of medical research laboratories, and subsequently in 1959 he was appointed its senior medical investigator, continuing as such until the close of hs life. Also in 1948 he became a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was professor of medicine from 1956 until the close of his life. The university's school of medicine was in its first year when he joined its teaching staff, and he assisted in the preparation of its teaching program as well as acting as consultant in the establishment of a metabolic research unit. He participated in the first atomic bomb test of the Manhattan Project at Bikini in 1946. Bassett was at one time a member of the conference on metabolic interrelations of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, New York City. He was co-author of more than thirty articles appearing in medical publications, including, "Mineral Exchanges of Man. I. Organization of Metabolism Ward and Analytical Methods" (with C.A. Elden and W.S. McCann, Jour. Nutirt., 1931), "Mineral Exchanges of Man. VI. Effect of Extirpation of Parathyroid Timor on the Balances of Electrolytes" (with H.E. Van Alstine, ibig., 1935), "Metabolism in Idiopathic Steatorrhea: I. The Influence of Dietary and Other Factors on Lipid and Mineral Balances" (with E.H. Keutmann, H.V. Hyde, and Van Alstine, Jour. Clin. Invest., 1939), "Effect of Injections of Testosterone Proponionate on a Male Subject with Nephrotic Syndrome" (with H. Samuel, C.D. Cockakian, and Keutmann, Jour. Clin. Endo., 1943). and "Nontropical Sprue Complicated by Generalized Amyloidosis, Observations on the Exchange on Nitrogen, Calcium, and Phosphorus" (with W.S. Adams, R. Goldman, and B.G. Fishkin, Med. Clin. North Amer., 1952). He also wrote the sections on disorders of calcium and phosphorus metabolism in "Clinical Disorders of Fluid and Electrolyte Metabolism" (1962) and with others contributed the studies of calcium balance in men with senil osteoporosis in "Aging Around the World" (Proc. 5th Congr. Internat. Assn. Gerontology, 1962). Bassett was a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the American Medical Association, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Endocrine Society, Western Society for Clinical Research, Western Association of Physicians, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, Alpha Omega Alpha, and Sigma Xi. In politics he was a Republican. His principal recreational activities were deep-sea fishing, gardening, and bowling. He was married in Los Angeles, March 12, 1927, to Louise Katherine, daughter of Nicholas Weber of Utica, New York, a contractor and builder, and had two sons, Samuel Hopkins and Christopher B. Samuel H. Bassett died in Los Angeles, California, January 1, 1962.
1900 Federal Census of Northeast, Dutchess County, New York (27 Jun 1900)
Caroline A. Bassett - 59 - F - Jan 1831 - NY-NY-NY - Head
William H. - 37 - M - Apr 1863 - NYC-NY-NY - Son - Farmer
Matilda G. - 27 - F - Apr 1873 - IR-IR-IR - DaughterL
Samuel H. - 1 - M - Dec 1898 - NY-NYC-IR - Son
Frank H. - 9/12 - M - Aug 1899 - NY-NYC-IR - Son
& 1 Boarder
(NYC - New York City)
(Caroline married 46 years, 5 children, 3 living)
(William and Matilda married 3 years, 2 children, 2 living)
1910 Federal Census of Northeast, Dutchess County, New York (13 May 1910)
William H. Bassett - 47 - M - NY-NY-NY - Head - Farmer
Matilda G. - 36 - F - IR-IR-IR - Wife
Samuel J. - 12 - M - NY-NY--IR - Son
Frank G. - 10 - M - NY-NY-IR - Son
William W. - 5- M - NY-NY-IR - Son
Elisabeth A. - 1 - F - NY-NY-IR - Daughter
William D. - 21 - M - NY-NY-NY - Nephew - Farm Laborer
Antoinette (Wd) - 79 - F - NY-NY-NY - Mother - Own income
(Married 13 years, 4 children, 4 living)
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Bassett Family Association Database
1897 - 1962 (64 years)