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Hiram Bassett (Mason County, Kentucky, clerk and bank teller)

b. 1821-01-12 d. 1890-11-06

Mason County, Kentucky, clerk and bank teller. Harrison County, Kentucky, native. Post office clerk in Mason County, Kentucky, from 1835 to 1841. Bank teller in Mason County from 1860 to 1865. Household hired two enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860. Steamboat clerk in Mason County in 1865.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 166.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville East, p. 15A.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880 , Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 019, p. 80B.

_Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Mason County, KY, September 1863, p. 27.

"Hiram Bassett." Lexington Herald-Leader, (Lexington, KY), 07 Nov 1890, p. 5.

"Major Hiram Bassett," Evening Bulletin, (Maysville, KY), 17 Nov 1890, p. 3.

"Hiram Bassett (1821-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial 217725079, accessed November 14, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/217725079.

Citation

Bassett, Hiram. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211768 (November 12, 2026).

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