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- WISCONSIN - ITS STORY AND BIOGRAPHY
1848-1913 by Ellis Baker Usher (1914)
William Bassett. For a period of ten years William Bassett has given an efficient administration of the duties of clerk of circuit court in Forest county, and since the organization of the county the records and administration of that office have never been in better hands. Mr. Bassett, like so many citizens of this section of the state, had his early experiences in the lumbering district, and was for several years connected with one of the factories in Crandon. Besides his county office, Mr. Bassett has recently been honored with election as mayor of Crandon, being now in his first term in that office. He has been clerk of the circuit court since 1903. His home has been at Crandon since 1899, in which year he came from Lower Michigan, and throughout practically all his residence in Crandon he has been engaged in the insurance and real estate business.
William Bassett was born at Ithaca, Gratiot county, Michigan, December 5, 1871, a son of Bryon L. and Belle Bassett. During his boyhood days in this county he received a public school education, and his first regular employment was in a stave and heading mill at Ithaca. He acquired a knowledge of all the details of this industry, and it was his experience in that line which gave him his first opening at Crandon. He became foreman for the Williams' Mills Stave Heading Factory there, and held that position until he entered office as clerk of the circuit court. He served two years as deputy clerk before his eelction to the regular office. In 1895 Mr. Bassett married Lillian Shorey, of Saginaw, Michigan. They are the parents of two children, Roy and Mildred. Mr. Bassett is very popular in the local citizenship of Crandon and Forest counties, and takes much part in fraternal work, being affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of American, and the Equitable Fraternal Union, and the Order of Yeomen.
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