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- 3B36571111. James Corby Bassett, son of George and Jessie (Harvey) Bassett, was born 2 Mar 1891 in Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York. He died 17 Mar 1959 in Woodstock, Ontario. He married Margaret Ann McLean, daughter of Donal and Emma (Zimmerman) McLean, on 21 Oct 1916 in Woodstock, Ontario. She was born on Thursday, 10 Dec 1891 as recorded in the McLean Family Bible. She died in 1974. James is buried in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, with Amney Bishop Harvey (1845-1937), mother of Jessie Harvey.
James had his schooling in Uxbridge, Massachusetts and Worcester, Massachusetts. He went to Canada in 1911 and settled in Woodstock. He may have lived for a short time in Scranton, Pennsylvania as well.
He was possibly named after the Reverend James Corby who moved to Seattle, Washington in the early 1900's to open a new church.
THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO - A HISTORY
By Jesse Edgar Middleton Voluve IV
1615-1927
James Corby Bassett - Among the enterprising young industrial executives of Woodstock, Ontario, is James Corby Bassett, secretary-manager and a director of Hosiers' Limited, manufacturers of men's and women's hose, pure silks and rayons and silk-and-woolens being
included in their varied output of hose. He was born in 1891 in Herkimer, N.Y., a son of George A. Bassett. James Corby Bassett was educated at the high school, Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and Worcester, Massachusetts. He came to Canada in 1911 and worked for a time as bookkeeper with the Oxford Knitting Company of Woodstock, after which he became superintendent of the sweater department at the Harvey Knitting Company, also of Woodstock. In 1918, this concern discontinued making sweaters, and Mr. Bassett, who was by this time thoroughly experienced in this field, became secretary-manager of a newly organized concern, starting in 1918, under the firm name of Hosiers' Limited. The officers of this concern are as follows: W. K. Harvey, president; H.W. Austin, vice-president; and Mr. Bassett, in addition to being secretary-manager, is a member of the board
of directors. The company has a plant of three stories and basement, thoroughly modern in every respect, and so steadily has the business grown since its organization, in 1918, that three additions to the plant have been made in that period. The factory now has a floor space of forty thousand square feet, employs some one hundred and fifty people, and has an output of some seventy thousand dozen hose a year, which is distributed through the efficient sales agents of the company in New Zealand, Australia, Scotland and England, as well as throughout the Dominion. Mr. Bassett is very well liked in Woodstock and is a member of a number of local organizations, including the Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Woodstock Amateur Athletic Association.
James Corby Bassett married Margaret McLean, a native of Woodstock, who is very active in club work. Mr. and Mrs. Bassett have three children: Jean, born in 1919; Betty, born in 1921, and James, born in 1926.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1891 - 1959 (68 years)