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- New York Herald, Tuesday, July 28, 1891
Erastus J. Bassett
Erastus J. Bassett died at his home in Hartford yesterday morning, aged seventy-one years. Diseases contracted at the Chicago fire caused his death. Mr. Bassett was known to the insurance world as the general agent and adjuster of the Aetna Insurance Company and in this capacity has adjusted more losses than any man living. He adjusted losses of $5,000,000 at the Chicago fire and as large an amount at the Boston conflagration.
1850 Federal Census of Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut (7 Sep 1850)
William J. Bassett - 25 - M - Connecticut - Barber
Ann - 27 - F - Connecticut
Ann M. - 4 - F - Connecticut
Waldo W. - 2 - M - Connecticut
Harriet E. - 5/12 - F - Connecticut
William Hills - 18 - M - Connecticut - Barber
Living next door
Amelia Bassett - 56 - F - Connecticut
Jesse - 60 - M - Connecticut - Joiner
Maria L.. - 32 - F - Connecticut
Erastus J. - 30 - M - Connecticut - Clerk
Elizabeth J. - 17 - F - New York(?)
1870 Federal Census of Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut (18 Jul 1870)
Erastus J. Bassett - 50 - M - Massachusetts - Fire Ins. Gen. Agt 8000 10000
Eldon - 16 - M - Connecticut
Ernest - 12 - M - Connecticut
Elmer E. - 9 - M - Connecticut
Mara L. - 32 - F - Massachusetts
Margaret Burns - ?0 - F - Ireland - Domestic Servant
1880 Federal Census of Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
E. J. Bassett - 60 - M - MA-CT-CT - Head - Ins. Agent
Mary G. - 48 - F - NH-NH-NH - Wife
Ernest C. - 22 - M - CT-MA-NH - Son - Clerk
Elmer E. - 19 - M - CT-MA-NH - Son - Clerk
Harriet N. Garfield - 75 - F - NH-MA-MA - MotherL (Wd)
S. Maria Barber - 40 - F - NH-NH-NH - SisterL
Winthrp Barber - 4 - M - IL-NH-NH - Nephew
Maggie Donovan - 23 - F - NY-IR-IR - Other - Servant
Lizzie Comish - 14 - F - NJ-EN-IR - Other - Servant
The New York Times, 3 Aug 1891
Erastus J. Bassett's WIll
HARTFORD, Aug. 2 - The will of Erastus J. Bassett of the Aetna Insurance Company, who was one of the oldest and most successful underwriters in the country, will be probated Tuesday next. Most of the estate has been devised in favor of the widow, Mrs. Mary Garfield Bassett, a cousin of the late President Garfield. The three sons of Mr. Bassett by his first wife, Messrs. Elmer Bassett of Chicago, and Eldorus A. and Ernest E.C. Bassett, of this city, the latter occupying a place in the Hartford Post Office, have been cut down to $16,000. It has not yet been decided whether they will contest the will or not.
The document is in the handwriting of the testator, and the only ground on which a contest in the courts can be made will be that of undue influence.
Mr. Bassett met Miss Garfield at Saratoga several years ago, and married her not long afterward. She has traveled extensively abroad, and has had wealth lavished upon her with a liberal hand. Her mother, Mrs. Harriet W. Garfield, resides with her in the most aristocratic portion of the city.
Insurance in Connecticut, excerpt
Erastus J. Bassett, adjuster for the Aetna since 1862, and widely known for his skill in the profession, died July 27, 1891, at the age of seventy-one.
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