Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
Creator: | Bassett Family |
Title: | Bassett Family Papers |
Dates: | 1810-1887 |
Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) |
Abstract: | Homer F. Bassett resided in Rockport (now Rocky River), near Cleveland, Ohio. John M. Bassett served in the 1st Connecticut Volunteer Artillery Regiment during the Civil War. The collection consists of correspondence, contracts, and land agreements and deeds to tracts of land in Brooklyn and Rockport, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Includes letters (1861-1863) from John M. Bassett to his family, written while he was stationed in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, giving his personal impressions of the Civil War. Other persons represented include Henry D. Bassett, Homer F. Bassett, Charles R. Jordan and Stephen Jordan. |
MS Number | MS 2094 |
Location: | closed stacks |
Language: | The records are in English |
The Bassett Family Papers, 1810-1887, consist of correspondence, contracts, and land agreements and deeds to tracts of land in Brooklyn and Rockport, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Includes letters (1861-1863) from John M. Bassett to his family, written while he was stationed in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, giving his personal impressions of the Civil War. Other persons represented include Henry D. Bassett, Homer F. Bassett, Charles R. Jordan and Stephen Jordan.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of the American Civil War, the history of Brooklyn and Rockport in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and the Basset family in the nineteenth century.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 2094 Bassett Family Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Clayton W. Tyler in 1936.