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- South Side Observer and Nassau Post, Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Friday, December 5, 1919
Obituary, J. Anthony Bassett
J. Anthony Bassett, 68 years old, died on Thursday morning at the Nassau Hospital, after a short illness. His daughter, Ada L., survives him.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Baptist Church, Merrick road, Rockville Centre, on Sunday at 3 p.m., by Rev. Alexander F. Johnson; also by the Masonic and Odd Fellows? lodges of Rockville Centre. Interment will take place at Gravesville cemetery, Herkimer County, N.Y., on Monday afternoon.
The Richfield Springs Mercury
Prof. J.A. Bassett
Professor J. Anthony Bassett of Rockville Center, who died at the Nassau Hospital on December 4, after a short illness, was one of the foremost educators in Nassau County, and established an enviable record in other parts of the state.
Professor Bassett was a graduate of St. Lawrence University and soon after graduation took up teaching. He went to Richfield Springs, N.Y., in the early 90?s, and at once became an important factor in the life of that town. His thorough knowledge of teaching and his great personality soon raised that school to one of the foremost high schools in the state, and it was with deep regret that he was allowed to go to Rockville Center, L.I., where he had greater opportunities in his chosen profession.
He was principal of the Rockville Center High School and of the East Rockaway and the Ocean Side High Schools, and of late was teaching in the business training department of the Bay Ridge School in Brooklyn.
He was a past grand of Rockville Center Lodge of Odd Fellows, a member of Massapequa Lodge, F. & A.M., and of the Royal Arcanum.
His funeral services were held on Sunday, December 7, at the Rockville Center Baptist Church, and were conducted under the auspices of the Masons and Odd Fellows. He is survived by a daughter, Ada.
J. Anthony Bassett was a man among men. Thousands of boys and girls will testify to his sterling worth, and that same thousand boys and girls, now men and women, will pay a silent tribute to the man who laid the foundations upon which they built their busy lives. Ever ready, ever willing to do anything for the advancement of his ?boys and girls,? as he delighted to call them, he moulded into manhood and womanhood many who stand in the foreground as New York?s brightest men and women. J. Anthony Bassett has gone just a little ahead, but in the hearts of his many pupils, he will live forever ? South Side Observer, Rockville Center, N.Y.
1880 Federal Census of Denmark, Lewis County, New York
J. Anthony Bassett 29 M NY CN NY Head Prof. of Math & Nat. Sci.
Josie 29 F NY NY CN Wife Teacher of School
Births, Deaths, Marriages from Gouverner, NY Herald
St. Lawrence County, NY (aprox. 1864-1904)
Married. Bassett-Marcy. In Russia, NY., August 8, 1878, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. A.J. Barrett, of Rochester, N.Y., Prof. A.J. Bassett, of Gouverneur, N.Y., and Miss Josie M. Marcy, of Mohawk, N.Y.
History of St. Lawrence Co., New York, 1878
Professor J. Anthony Bassett
Professor J. Anthony Bassett was born in Denmark, Lewis Co., N.Y., Dec. 25, 1850, the only child of Julius and Chloe I. Bassett. He prepared for college at Lowville academy, under A. Judson Barrett; entered the University of Rochester in 1871, and graduated in 1875, taking the full classical course. He cam to Gouverneur the same year, and engaged as teacher in the Gouverneur Wesleyan seminary, and at the present time occupies the position of professor of natural sciences. Professor Bassett has been connected with the academy longer than any other of the teachers now connected with it.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1850 - 1919 (68 years)