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- Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography (1923)
Bassett, Allan Lee - Soldier, Editor, Underwriter
Allan Lee Bassett was born on the family farm in New Haven county, near Derby, Connecticut, on February 28, 1827. His ancestors were of old Puritan stock. John Bassett, the first of his paternal line in this country, came to New Haven from England in 1642, and many of his descendants were prominent in the colonial life of New England, being landowners, farmers, educators, legislators and soldiers. His maternal ancestors were no less distinguished. His mother, Nancy Lee, was a descendant in the sixth generation of John Eliot, the Apostle, who emigrated in 1631 from England to Massachusetts, where he made himself famous not only for his learning but for his labors and sufferings as a missionary among the Indians.
The parents of Allan desired to educate him for a professional career, as in the case of his brothers, Eliot and Benjamin, who were graduates of Yale College; one becoming a clergyman and the other physician.
Bulletin - Wilton, Connecticut
January 30, 1991
Bassett Knew Success Despite Illness
By George S. Weston
His father, Benjamin F. Bassett, Yale College, B.A., 1847, M.D., 1852, was a practicing physician in Brooklyn, New York, until compelled by ill health to retire, and he spent the last few years of his life in Wilton on the property on the easterly side of the Danbury-Norwalk Road just south of the Lambert house, familiarly known to us as the Folson place, now owned by the Sisters of the Annunciation.
He had married Mary Louise How, widow of Lewis How, who had two daughters, Minnie and Anna How. Her maiden name was Brush, daughter of Joseph Brush, a merchant of Cos Cob.
Minnie How married Henry Gieser, and Anna married Rinaldo Jones, and it is their daughter, Louise E. Jones, wife of Morris Norton Benedict, now residing in Wilton, I am indebted for much of this information. Mrs. Gieser is living in Cos Cob and is 82 years old. Mrs. Jones died in the Bassett home in Wilton in August 1888, the year of the great blizzard.
Dr. and Mrs. Bassett had two children, both born in Wilton, Lottie L. and Samuel Eliot. Lottie entered Wilton Academy in 1881, married Ferris Morgan and resided in the house on the Wolf Pit Road, near the railroad, now owned by George Foote.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1825 - 1875 (49 years)
(Age 79 years)