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Bassick was appointed chairman of the
Harness Hardware Division by the War
Industries Board. He was also interested
in a shipbuilding plant at Mobile, Alabama.
The war ended, the Bassick Company
purchased the Alemite Lubricator
Company of Chicago, and organized the
Bassick Manufacturing Company. In 1923
the Bassick Alemite Company's Delaware
corporation was formed and it took over
the plants of the Bassick Company, the
Bassick Manufacturing Company, the
Alemite Products Company of Canada
and later the Allyne-Zerck Company of
Cleveland, Ohio, and the E. F. Evans
Company of Detroit, Michigan. The Bas-
sick Alemite Company was the holding
company, and was the parent of the Bas-
sick subsidiaries. Mr. Bassick is also
identified with numerous other enter-
prises. He is vice-president of the Bridge-
port Savings Bank, a director of the First
National Bank and a trustee of the Young
Women's Christian Association of Bridge-
port. His clubs are Brooklawn and Fairfield
Country and India House of New
York. He is a Republican in politics. He
is a member of the Free and Accepted
Masons and is a communicant of St.
John's Episcopal Church, Bridgeport.
Mr. Bassick married, May 18, 1897,
Grace Elizabeth Morris, a graduate of
Smith College, and a daughter of Mar-
shall E. and Margaret Winter Morris of
Bridgeport. Mr. Morris for a number of
years was associated with his father in
the Sewing Machine Cabinet Company of
Bridgeport, and was a large real estate
holder in that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Bassick are the parents of
three children: i. Elizabeth Morris Bas-
sick, educated at the Courtland School in
Bridgeport, the Capen School and Smith
College in Northampton, Massachusetts
married Tracy Campbell Dickson, son of
;
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General Tracy C. Dickson, United States
Army ; has two children : Tracy Campbell
Dickson, 3d, and Grace Bassick Dickson.
2. Edgar W. Bassick, Jr., born in Febru-
ary, 1902, educated in public schools of
Bridgeport, the Taft School of Water-
town, Connecticut, and the Tome School,
Maryland. 3. Marshall Morris Bassick,
born in October, 1912.
BASSICK, Frederick C,
A modern philosopher, no doubt borrowing
from ancient opinion, declared
that the education and preparation for
life of any person should begin genera-
tions before birth, the meaning being that
a child must depend upon its forebears for
success in a great measure. Much de-
pends upon ancestry.
Frederick C. Bassick, son of Edmund
Chase and Rebecca Elizabeth (Webb-
Walters) Bassick, was born at Rosita,
Colorado, December 2, 1876. On his
paternal side an immigrant ancestor was
a linguist of note, becoming fluent in
seven different languages. He was a sea
trader to some extent, and thus knew the
world. His grandfather was a prosperous
Maine farmer who gave each of his children
a good education and saw them well
bestowed in life. His father discovered
the first gold field in Australia, and it was
he who by his rich find started the great
gold rush to that continent in the early
fifties. Thus he was one of the pioneer
gold mine discoverers and owners of one
of the most famous gold mining enter-
prises in the world. (See ancestry on a
preceding page.)
Frederick C. Bassick, son of Edmund
Chase and Rebecca Elizabeth (Webb)
Bassick, was born in Colorado, as noted.
In his early boyhood he removed with his
parents to Belfast, Maine, and later to