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- 1880 Federal Census of Mercer, Mercer County, Illinois
J.N. Bassett - 55 - M - KY-KY-KY - Head - Lawyer
Carolin - 45 - F - PA-PA-PA - Wife - Keeping House
Nota - 25 - F - IL-KY-OH - Daughter - Keep Kook
Thomas - 23 - M - IL-KY-OH - Son - Law Student
Lula - 21 - F - IL-KY-OH - Daughter - At Home
Victor - 9 - M - IL-KY-PA - Son
Bessie - 6 - F - IL-KY-PA - Daughter
Clara Yerty - 26 - F - IL-PA-PA - Daughter - Book Store and St.
1910 Federal Census of Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia (16/18 Apr 1910)
Victor H. Bassett - 38 - M - IL-KY-PA - Head - Doctor City Bacteriologist
Annie S. - 41 - F - IL-NY-EN - Wife
Victor S. - 9 - M - MD-IL-IL - Son
Ellen M. - 3 - F - WI-IL-IL - Daughter
Calden(?) Stowell - 73 - M - NY-NY-NY - FatherL
Priscilla - 72 - F - EN-EN-EN - MotherL
(Married 10 years, 2 children, 2 living)
(Married 45 years, 5 children, 5 living)
ALEDO MAN WINS FAME (1902)
V.H. Bassett, Studying Medicine in
Baltimore, Discovers the Germ of
Cholera Infantum
Most Aledo people have been familiar with the fact that Victor H. Bassett, son of Attorney I.N. Bassett,, has been pursuing a course of study in Johns Hopkins University medical school of Baltimore, Maryland, one of the best medical schools in America.
His many friends here are happy to note that he has recently achieved fame in the medical world by the discovery of the germ which causes cholera infantum among children the fact being announced in the Chicago Chronicle of Tuesday.
Mr. Bassett had been making a special study of children's diseases during the summer at the Thomas Wilson sanitarium for children at Baltimore, an institution which cares for from 300 to 400 children at a time.
The supposition among medical men has been that there was a distinctive germ which caused the disease bu the germ had not heretofore been discovered. Mr. Bassett and a fellow student, Charles W. Duvall, had been devoting especial attention in the direction of the discovery at the sanitarium this summer and their efforts were finally crowned with success.
Full credit is freely given to Mr. Bassett, for the discovery of the germ while to his colaborer, Mr. Duvall, is given the honor of its isolation. Both students had been selected for the investigation work on account of ttheir great aptitude, and after they reported their discovery the matter was taken up by Dr. Welsh and Dr. Knox of the sanitarium and fully verified by them before the announcement was made public.
Work of this kind is watched by medical men all over the world and it is a great honor for anyone to have discovered the distinctive germ of any disease and is not ordinarily accomplished by undergraduate students.
Mr. Bassett, however, is perhaps as well qualified as anyone could be to do this kind of work. He has always been a deep student of nature in all her forms and for some years prior to his entering Johns Hopkins he had been a student and later an instructor in biology in the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Prior to that he had shown himself to be one of the brightest students that ever went out from his city or county. His friends here are happy to hear of his new honors.
He has recently been offered the position of assistant professor of pathology in the medical department of the University of Chicago but it is not known that he will accept.
Chicago Times-Herald, Sept. 13, 1902
Victor H. Bassett, Who Discovered the New Germ
(Picture Included)
Victor Hugo Bassett, the graduate student in Johns Hopkins University who has discovered the germ of "summer complant", was formerly a resident of Aledo, Ill, where he was born in 1871. He entered Knox College in 1888, was graduated in 1892, surveyed for a time in Idaho, and after a special course in the state university, won his degree at Knox College in 1896. Mr. Bassett entered Johns Hopkins in 1899 for post-graduate work and is still there. He is taking a special course in bacteriology and has recently made some remarkably interesting original investigations in that line.
Georgia Historical Society, Collection # MS 55
Victor Hugo Bassett Papers, Dates: 1907-1938
Dr. Victor Hugo Bassett was born on May 7, 1871, in Aledo, Illinois, son of Isaac Bassett. He received his medical training at the University of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins University. Bassett came to Savannah, GA in 1908, as the city bacteriologist. In 1923, he became the City Health Officer, and County Health Officer in 1928. His research topics included diphtheria, Typhoid fever, tetanus, and dysentery. He was also active in the Georgia Public Health Association, the American Public Health Association, and the Georgia Medical Society. Bassett died on November 3, 1938.
Columbus Ledger Enquirer, July 3, 1922
Resignation is Requested
Savannah, Ga., July 3 - Dr. Victor H. Bassett, for many years city bacteriologist, has been requested to obtain another position by the end of September. No reason is assigned for the asked for resignation. The city health officer, Dr. Conrad E. Koerper, asked for the resignation of the bacteriologist, who was head of the department he serves during the latter years of the administration of Dr. W.F. Brunner, who was some months ago retired.
Excerpt from Autobiography of Isaac Newton Bassett
There was born to our second marriage, four children. The first, Roy Hastings, born Dec 13, 1863, died March 1878. Bertie, born March 26th died June 26th 1870. Victor Hugo Born May 7th 1871, Bessie born Feb 13th 1874.
My second wife, who was a widow, had one child, Clara Belle Yerty, who was born April 6th 1854 and lived with us until August 13th 1889 when she was married to A.J. Ingmire and still lives in Aledo.
Victor Hugo was married to Anna Stowell July 5th, 1899 and has one son Victor Stowell.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1871 - 1938 (67 years)