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- Excerpt from Mabel Bourne Bassett Tribute
"Mabel Bourne was born in Chicago, Illinois, August 16, 1876. Her father was Stephen Bourne, a merchant, and a veteran of Company B, Eighth Regiment, Missouri Infantry. Her mother was Martha Ellen Tomlin, daughter of Judge Levi Preston Tomlin of Charleston, Illinois; and it would seem that her crusading spirit was a fitting heritage for a crusading daughter.
Martha Ellen Tomlin, with her sisters, Mary and Margaret Tomlin, were the first women in the United States to edit a newspaper. This was The Balance established in 1870, in Chicago, burned in the great fire, re-established and used to champion women’s interests and further woman’s suffrage. Martha Ellen Bourne, mother of Mabel Bassett, used the nome du plume of “Capitola”, and her strong pen moved tirelessly in an effort to free women of that day from servitude to citizenship."
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Bassett Family Association Database
d. 2 Aug 1953, Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma