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James Guy Bassett
James Guy Bassett has been a member of the Allegheny County bar, practicing his profession at Pittsburgh since 1894. He was born and has always resided on the North Side of the city of Pittsburgh, being the son of Edwin and Sarah (Guy) Bassett, the family being located at Pittsburgh since the early part of the nineteenth century.
Mr. Bassett has always been largely interested in local manufacturing interests and is at present a director of the Pittsburgh Knife and Forge Company; Sharon Pressed Steel Company; Keystone Machine and Engineering Company; and Walkers Mill Stone and Brick Company, being interested also in other industries.
On November 23, 1916, Mr. Bassett married Mary Knox, in Pittsburgh, and they have two children: James Guy, Jr. and Alexander Knox.
The Pittsburgh Knife and Forge Company, named above, is one of the largest industries of Pittsburgh, doing a business which, in its various ramifications, reaches all over the world. The enormous output of this company is manufactured in two separate plants: The Pittsburgh factory, covering an area of two acres, bounded by Ridge, Chartier, Rebecca and Bellwood streets, constituting a city block, regularly employs three hundred hands, and turns out fifteen tons of forgings daily. The outside plant is located at Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, and covers ten acres. This is a new plant, erected to take care of the rapidly increasing business, which the city plant was unable to do. Here three thousand tons of forgings are daily produced by the five hundred men employed. This plant is a marvel of completeness and a model of the latest construction and equipment.
The Pittsburgh Knife and Forge Company produces forgings for big manufacturing concerns only, the Ford Motor Car Company being one of their customers. Many other large manufacturers of machinery and motor vehicles use extensively the product of this concern, and in this way there is hardly a country on the earth where its product does not go.
The personnel of the company, which was incorporated in 1909, is as follows: W.H. Schoen, chairman of the board; Edwin Hodge, Jr., president; W.H. Schoen, Jr., vice president; A.R. Bassett, treasurer; and James G. Bassett, secretary.
1880 Federal Census of Allegheny, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Mrs. Bassett - 30 - F - PA-IR-IR - Head - Keeping House
Jas. G. - 8 - M - PA-PA-PA - Son - At School
Alx. R. - 6 - M - PA-PA-PA - Son - At School
Hugh Boyce - 49 - M - IR-IR-IR - Other - Real Estate Agent
Bella - 40 - F - PA-PA-IR - Other
Mary J. - 19 - F - PA-IR-PA - Other - At School
James - 14 - M - PA-IR-PA - Other - At School
Sadie - 12 - F - PA-IR-PA - Other - At School
Hattie - 9 - F - PA-IR-PA - Other - At School
Edw. Basil Boyce - 2/12 - M - PA-IR-PA - Other
Wm. Hamilton - 24 - M - PA-PA-PA - Other - Bookkeeper
A.B. McMillan - 44 - M - IR-IR-IR - Other
Chas. Bassett - 23 - M - PA-EN-PA - Other - Paper Hanger
Wm. Wilson - 45 - M - EN-EN-EN - Other - Photo Agt
M.J. Chatum - 55 - F - PA-IR-IR - Other
1910 Federal Census of 21st Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (20 Apr 1910)
James G. Bassett - 38 - M - PA-PA-PA - Head - Lawyer General Practice
Alexander R. Bassett - 35 - M - PA-PA-PA - Brother - Pressman Forge Plant
Matthew R. Guy - 65 - M - PA-IR-IR - Uncle
Margaret J. - 68 - F - PA-IR-IR - Aunt
Mary Wyble - 20 - F - AU-AU-AU - House Servant
(AU - Austria)
(Living on Bidwell Street)
1920 Federal Census of 26th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (12 Jan 1920)
James G. Bassett - 47 - M - PA-PA-OH - Head - Lawyer Office
Mary H. - 42 - F - PA-IR-PA - Wife
James G. - M - PA-PA-PA - Son
Knox - M - PA-PA-PA - Son
Julia Sullivan - 23 - F - IR-IR-IR - House Servant
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Bassett Family Association Database
Abt 1872 - 