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- Honorable John Bassel
Judge Bassel was born, reared and died in Harrison County. He was born June 9, 1840 and died in the City of Clarksburg on December 28, 1914. He was educated at Moore's Academy at Morgantown, Virginia, where he spent two years. Then from Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania he graduated with honor. He read law in the office of the late John J. Davis for one year. Later graduated from Cincinnati College of Law and was admitted to practice in the Courts of Harrison County, January 8, 1864. He was noted for his diligence, mental acuteness, and power of analysis. He was a dangerous opponent in debate, but was never spectacular nor offensive. He had a remarkably retentive memory and could cite cases with marvelous precision.
Mr. Bassel was twice married, first to Miss Martha Lewis, by whom he had six children, and second to Miss Mary Bean, who survived him and still resides in Clarksburg. She is a woman of marked ability, and helped her husband manage his large volume of business which burdened him in his declining years.
Mr. Bassel was a Democrat, but devoted little time and thought to politics. The first and only office, to which he was ever elected by the people, was a member of the State Convention that prepared the Constitution of the State in 1872, under which we are still living.
He was counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for many years.
He was a Presbyterian, domestic in tastes and habits, and enjoyed his friends. He was president of the State Bar Association in 1901. The association was in session at Parkersburg the day of his demise, and twenty of its members, as a mark of respect, were appointed to attend his funeral.
Source: "Bench and Bar of West Virginia" by George Wesley Atkinson, 1919 - TK - Submitted by FoFG for
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The Weston Democrat, Fri. 1 Jan. 1915
BASSELL, HON. JOHN, died Monday at his home in Clarksburg. Survived by second wife, who was Miss Alice Bean, married little more than a year ago. Surviving, a brother, James Bassel of Weston, two sons and five daughters. Sons are Norval and Edward C. Bassell, both of this city. Daughters, Mrs. John W. Davis of Washington, DC; Mrs. Miller S. Gallaher of Charleston; Mrs. Philemon M. Watson of Indianapolis; and Mrs. W. P. Goff and Miss Cornelia Bassell of this city. His first wife, the mother of his children, was Mrs. Martha Lewis Bassell, half-sister of Judge Charles S. Lewis of this city, now deceased, and daughter of Charles Lewis of Clarksburg. She died March 15, 1912. Mr. Bassell and Miss Lewis married in 1867. John Bassell was born near Lost Creek in 1840, son of Benjamin Bassell, who came to this section from Connecticut. From: Clarksburg Telegram
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1840 - 1914 (74 years)
