Times Picayune
February 12, 1883GOODWIN - At the Free Gospel Mission, 17 Announciation street, at 20 minutes past 9 o'clock, A.M., Sunday, February 11, 1883. Mrs. Caddie L. Goodwin, aged 36 years, youngest daughter of Rev. Jonathan S. and Harriet N. Haskell, wife of Lemon C. Goodwin, of Marshalltown, Iowa.
Civil War
U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
Name: Alden Bassett
Enlistment Date: 9 Jan 1864
Rank at enlistment: Private
Enlistment Place: Denver, CO
State Served: Colorado
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, Colorado 3rd Cavalry Regiment on 01 Sep 1864.
Mustered out on 31 Dec 1864 at Denver, CO.
Sources: Index to Compiled Military Service Records
Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force 1861-1865
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San Juan Prospector
April 2, 1926
Alden Bassett was born June 25, 1845 at Lymn Township, Grant County, Wisconsin. He died at Soldier's and Sailor's home, Monte Vista, Colorado, Monday, March 22, 1926, at 80 years of age.Alden Bassett moved to Dixon, Illinois in his early life and resided here until Mr. Bassett moved to Denver City, Jefferson Territory, at the age of fifteen, when he and his father, William Bassett entered in the mining business at Black Hawk.
He there enlisted with what was known as the Tylen Rangers at that place and was then transferred to the 3rd Colorado Calvary in 1864.
His father and he then entered into milling business on the Divide near Denver at Edgerton, Colorado.
On September 15, 1870, he was united in marriage to Josephine R. Haskell, at Boulder, Colorado. There was born to this union five boys and three girls. Florence Dorr, Los Angeles; W. H. Bassett, Jr., Pueblo; Alden B. who preceded him in death in 1893; Loren Bassett; Alvin B., who preceded him to the grave in 1918; Amy Lylia, who preceded him in death in 1890; Harold of Salina, Kansas; and Gertrude Coombs. There are eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
His father preceded him to the San Luis Valley in July, 1872.
Mr. Bassett and wife arriving in the valley in November, 1873, where they continued in the milling business for some little time. Following this they moved to Silverton, Colorado where he was connected with Sherwin and Haughton in the mercantile business. Upon his return to Del Norte, he was elected and served six years as clerk and recorder of Rio Grande County. He then went to Summitville where he was superintendent for the Thomas M. Bowen mine. He then returned to Del Norte where he was engaged in the mercantile business until the Creede boom where he was employed by the Hoover Contracts. Then he returned to Del Norte and was elected county treasurer of Rio Grande County in 1893 and served as such to January 1, 1898. His health then failing, he moved to South Fork where he passed three years farming and in the employment of the Galbreath Tie and Timber Company. In November, 1902, he was elected probate judge of Rio Grande County and served until January, 1913, at which time he was appointed Clerk of the District Court of the 12th Judicial District, serving in this capacity until February, 1921 when he suffered a stroke.
Alden Bassett was a member of Del Norte Lodge No. 105, A.F. and A.M., Del Norte Chapter No. 39, Royal Arch Masons, Rio Grande Commandary No. 15, Knights Templers, Pueblo Consistory No. 3, Consistory Masons, Al Kaly Shrine, Pueblo, Colorado, Del Norte Chapter No. 49 O. E. Star; Coronado Lodge No. 25, Knights of Pythias; Las Pinos Camp No. 24, W.O.W.; Sons of Colorado, Joe Hooker Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
Creede Candle
November 9, 1918
O
liver Bassett son of Judge Bassett of Del Norte , died here last Saturday of the Spanish influenza . Deceased was 32 years old and was born in Del Norte but has made Creede his home for the past two years . Surviving relatives are Mr . and Mrs . Alden Bassett of Del Norte, Mrs. Florence Dorr of Ft . Douglas , Utah , Mrs . M . L . McLaughlin of this city and three brothers. Oliver Bassett made many friends during his residence here who were shocked and grieved to learn of his death . Interment took place at Del Norte .
Creede Candle
November 9, 1918Just two days after the death of her husband , Oliver Bassett , the same dread disease claimed Mrs . Anna Bassett . [The] deceased was born at New Cambria , Kansas , May 17 , 1898 , and was a daughter of Mr , and Mrs . John Genisch of this city , Besides her father and mother she leaves one sister to mourn her death .
San Juan Prospector
March 1, 1890Aimee Lydia Bassett, 7 month old daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alden Bassett, died at Del Norte Sunday night.
Find-a-Grave
Funeral services for Harold Bassett, who died at Salina, Kansas January 2, 1954, were held her Thursday afternoon of last week. A graveside ritual was conducted by the Del Norte Masonic order. The deceased had belonged to No. 105 here for over 25 years.
He was born June 7, 1891 in Del Norte, the youngest son of Alden and Josephine Bassett, pioneers of the Del Norte community.
Mr. Bassett grew to young manhood here and was educated in the Del Norte schools. He was a power plant engineer, receiving his initial training in the old Del Norte municipal plant. In 1909 he moved to Salina, Kansas and was employed at the Salina power plant.
In 1916, he married Grace Elizabeth Genisch of Salina, and returning to Colorado, he settled in Creede where his wife died in the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving an infant son, Donald. He married Augusta Ihringer of Del Norte in 1920 and in 1923, he returned to Salina where he was again employed at the Salina power plant. At the time of his death he was plant superintendent there.
He was a member of St. John's Lutheran church, Salina, and of the Woodmen of the World lodge.He is survived by his widow Augusta; his son, Donald; two grandsons, Herbert Harold and Robert Lee; two brothers, Loren, Compton, California and William, Denver; two sisters, Mrs. Florence Dorr, St. Cloud, Florida, and Mrs. E. Gertrude Day, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
San Juan Prospector
November 8, 1918Thursday morning the death of Mrs. Harold Bassett occurred Creede, Colorado from influenza and burial took place in the Del Norte cemetery Friday. The deceased leaves the husband, Mr. Harold Bassett, who has just recovered from the influenza, and a baby a few months of age.
Del Norte Prospector
June 20, 1969Augusta Bassett, 81, a native of Del Norte, died Friday at Salina, Kansas. Graveside services were held Tuesday.
She was a sister of Mrs. Elizabeth Voss and one of four daughters of an early family in the community Frank Ihringer.
Mrs. Bassett grew up in this community and attended the local school. Her husband died in 1954. He was the son of Alden Bassett.
Besides her sister, she is survived by a stepson, Donald; two grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
73783. Frederick William Snyder
The Deming Headlight (Deming, NM)
August 10, 1954Funeral services for Frederick William Snyder of Hachita were held at 10 a.m. Monday. Mr. Snyder died Friday at the Deming Hospital following a brief illness. He was 69.
A resident of New Mexico for the past 30 years, Mr. Snyder was born in Tombstone, Ariz. in 1885. He was the son of a prominent mining engimeer, Franz Armam Snyder, and his early youth was spent in Old Mexico and the southwestern United States where his father taught him mining "in the field".
He was married Jan. 1, 1919 to Helen Minshall Young of Harrisburg, Pa. The ceremony took place in Prescott, Ariz. Shortly afterword his profession took him to New Mexico, then to El Paso, where Mrs. Snyder died in 1927, leaving him to raise their three children. In the years just prior to his death, Mr. Snyder was associated with the American Group of Mines at Hachita.
Snyder was a pioneer member of El Paso Lodge No. 130 AF&AM. In his early years he took an active part in several mining associations and made several contributions to mining journals and papers.
Surving him are two daughters, Mrs. Melvin J. Wallace of Gila, N.MZ. and Mrs. Harold Hanley of Pueblo, Colo., a son William B. Snyder of Wichita, Kans., and a sister, Mrs. Roy A. Cass, of Ajo, Ariz., and three grandsons.
Santa Ana Register
March 8, 1941Mrs. Mary Alice Houghton, 58, 620 Orange avenue, Santa Ana, died yesterday at Santa Ana Valley hospital after an extended illness. A native of Sacramento, Mrs. Houghton had been a resident for the past 20 years.
She is survived by the husband Chesley B. Houghton, a son, Wright Morgan Jenks, Santa Ana; a brother, John Allen Crabbe, Sacramento, and a grandson, Wright Morgan Jenks jr.,Santa Ana.
The Carborundum Worker
April 1919Mr. FRANK W. HASKELL. President of The Carborundum Company and its allied companies died suddenly at Daytona, Florida, April 2nd. Mr. Haskell had been in Daytona since January and seemingly had been in the best of health. The news of his sudden demise came as a distinct shock.
Mr. Frank W. Haskell was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 17, 1861. In 1879 he became connected with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company in a clerical capacity. In 1887 he was associated with Mr. H. C. Frick and became identified with several of the Frick interests. He remained with Mr. Frick until 1898 when he was made vice-president of The Carborundum Company at Niagara Falls, N. Y. One year later he was made president, succeeding Dr. Edward Goodrich Acheson, who organized and became president of the Acheson Graphite Company.
In 1905 Mr. Haskell came into national prominence through his handling of the Frick Investigation Committee, which investigated the affairs of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Haskell wrote the report and Senator P. C. Knox handled the legal details.
Mr. Haskell was married in 1881 to Clara L. Seymour. He is survived by Mrs. Haskell, his son, Benjamin Haskell, his father, Benjamin Haskell and three brothers.
Mr. Haskell had been a resident of Niagara Falls up to 1916, when he sold his Buffalo Avenue home and moved to West Ferry Street Buffalo. He was a member of the Niagara Club, the Buffalo Club, the Country Club of Buffalo, the Park Club of Buffalo, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, the Automobile Club of Buffalo and the Automobile Club of America, the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the Society of Colonial Wars. He was also a director of the Power City Bank.
He was a man of marked talents, being considered expert in the matters of finance and corporation organization. He had distinct literary tastes and ability and was intensely interested in stamp collecting, his collection being one of the most complete in the country.
Mr. Haskell had a host of friends in the city and throughout the country who will sincerely mourn his loss. His associates among the men in the official family of The Carborundum Company, as well as the men in the plant, will mourn the loss of a sincere friend, a man of broad and liberal policies and an executive who was always approachable and who always had the interests of the employees of The Carborundum Company at heart.
A great deal of the success of The Carborundum Company is attributed to Mr. Haskell's efforts, his keen sense of judgment as an executive and his ability as a financier.
Funeral services were held from the Haskell winter home at No. 384 South Beach Street, Daytona, Florida, on Thursday, April 3rd, the Rev. Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur officiating. The remains were placed in a vault until the following Monday when they were removed to the Haskell homestead at Bloomfield, N. J., interment being in the family plot at Bloomfield, on Wednesday afternoon, April 9th. Among those who attended the funeral were R. B. Mellon, vice-president of The Carhorundum Company, George R. Rayner, Secretary and Sales Manager; Frank Tone, Works Manager; F. H. Manley, Treasurer; Charles H. Greenwood, Works Superintendent; John P. Seymour, Supt. Paper and Cloth Department and R. B. Fuller, Charles Knupfer, E. G. Acheson, and C. C. Lathrop.
In speaking of the death of Mr. Haskell, Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers Record and who was a close friend of Mr. Haskell and one of his neighbors at Daytona, said: "Mr. Haskell was 'one of the finest characters I ever knew. He was a Christian gentleman in its highest sense. He had one of the keenest and most brilliant analytical minds I have ever come in touch with. In his great business operations he was always keenly alive to the welfare and progress of the employees of his company whether in the office or factory. His death is a distinct loss to the great forces of business leadership in America. " Such was the man whom we of the Carhoundum Family mourn.