The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-13
DEATHS IN NEW HAVEN |
THE RECORD FOR SATURDAY. NIGHT
 AND YESTERDAy.


 The Death of John F. Bassett--A Friends Tribute-Death of Ex-Assistant Postnas-
 ter Earie--NIrs. Butler, Wife of stephen E. Butler, Dies in France-Death of MT. Andrews-Also Three Sudden Deaths Re- ported to the VI Medical Examiner.
 John F.. Bassett, the hardware mer- chant, died at his home, No, 29l Shelton avenue, yestel day morning at about o'clock. His death had been expected at any moment since Friday night. He had been i'll about six weeks, first with malamal fever, from which he had ral- lied, only to be stricken with a compi- cation of diseases, the prominent feat ure of which was erysipelas from which in his weakened condition he was ln- able to rally The news of his death creates many expressions of sorrow from people in all parts of the city, he having been so long and widely known here as business man.
 John E. Bassett of the firm of John E. Bassett & Co.,, dealers in manufac- tuners supplies and general hardware
 T54 Chapel street and BIS and 320 State
 street, was born in Hamden, Conn.
 March 31, 1880, a son of David and Mary A. Uarvis) Bassett At the age Of nine he removed with his fathers family to New Haven. which has since been his home. Before this he had attended school in Hamden. He continued his studies in the public schools Of New Haven and finished them, when be-
 tween fifteen and sixteen years old at the Lancasterian school, then under the
 management of John E. Lowell. Not long afterward he entered the
 hardware store of Mir E. B. M Hughes
 as a clerk, thus beginning his career with that establishment, which has been unbroken to the present time marking him as having been longer in
 one place on Chapel street than any other man now in business there. That
 was in 1S46, and MT. Bassett looked back over the sunshine and shadows of near ly forty years association with this spot. formerly known as 2$6 Chapel
 street, but now as 754, during more than thirty years of which period he has oCCh d piOplIetoI III tile tuleTpflSt. He was married to Sarah E. Pratt of Greenpor't, l.. l., in June, 1860 and had
 son and three daughters.
 The business was first begun in 17s4 by Titus Street, who continued 1t alone
 till 1792, when MT. Samuel Hughes went in With him and the business was con ducted under the firm name of Street & Hughes until 1902 Then it was Street. Hughes &S Go, Street. sherman X Co., Hughes. sherman & Co, and Hughes & sherman. MT. Street retired from ac- tive business in 1921. Mir. Samuel Hughes continued the business after that with his son, E. B. NJ Hughes.
 t'rom the death of his father in 1898 F. E. M. Hughes conducted the business alcne until 1855 when John E. Bassett was admitted to the firm Mr. Hughes remained as senior partner until bis death in 1864. In 1865 MT. II. N. Jarvis
 became associated with Mr Bassett as partner remaining as such during three years, when he removed to Denver
 It will be noted that since the founda- ton of this business in 1784 it has never
 been sold out. surviving partner al- ways carrying il forward The small wooden building in which it had it's o,i- gin is but a memory now, but it's sue cessor. little above, by repeated addf
 tions and enlargements, now extends from 754 Chapel street to BIS and 3oo State street, thus appropriately encir- cling its birthplace. He took great pleasure in speaking of the antiouitv Of his house and in showing to curious ViSitors the little old safe which was the only one in use in the store until the death of Mr. E. B. M Hughes and
 the quaint old ledger and bIotter in which Titus Street kept the record of his daily mercantile transactions
 Exceptionally genial in address. he had many and warm personal friends among the leading business men of New Haven and other cities. He was a dem ocrat, but not a politician; an attendant upon the services of the Episcopal church; and citizen of public spirit and progressive ideas.
 MT. Bassett had not interested hin-s self largely in enterprises outside of his own trade, but had been connected in one way or another with a few first class concerns, notably with the New Haven and Centerville Horse Railroad company as one of it's incorporators and as it's treasurer and president.
 The following tribute to the deceased is from the pen of one of our best known and most esteemed townsmen:
 JOHN E. BAssETT,
 In the death Of John E. Bassett New Haven has to record the death of an other of it's valued and esteemed citi- zens.
 MT. Bassett was born in the town of Hamden, but ever since his early youth
 had resided in this city aad for nearly a half century had been cons.antK con- nected both as clerk, partner and prin cipal of one of the oldest leadjng hard ware stores in New England. The rep utation this house has always enjoyed as a Just and honorable dealing firm is fuily substantated. Its success arises from the fact that it has always kept up with the times, and from the urbanity of manner the rigid rule of courtesy always paramount in the treatment of it's patrons, extending down even to in. delicate wrapping of a trivial purchase which fact alone carried out the off re- peated admonition to its employees, the old maxim that Etiquette was cheap commodity. No person. however brusdue he may have been. ever left that house With a rebuff.
 Mir. Bassett personally was very en- tertaining. He was blessed with fund of ready uliiEt rit ,,,o.+o,,.a.:-.. =.