Sacramento County
Biographies
LEMUEL
FRANKLIN BASSETT
L. F. BASSETT, City Surveyor of Sacramento, is a native of Seneca County, New York, born October 4, 1851, his parents being Pierrepont and Roxy (Cole) Bassett. He was reared and educated there, but when eighteen years of age went to Des Moines. There he became assistant to chief city engineer J. R. Bosman, and occupied that position until the spring of 1873, when he engaged in railroad surveying work, first in Nebraska, afterward in Utah. In September, 1874, he came to Sacramento, and was for a few months connected with the county surveyor. He then entered the employ of the Central Pacific Railroad, in the engineering department, and so continued two and a half years. After that, he was for six months engaged in swamp land surveys, in connection with Lisbon district, Yolo County. Since 1888 he has been city surveyor of Sacramento, having been chosen as his own successor at each succeeding election. Mr. Bassett was married to Miss Ella Genevieve Jackson, a native of Indiana. Her father died in Yolo County, but her mother still resides there. Mr. Bassett is a member of Industrial Lodge, No. 157, I. O. O. F., and Unity Lodge, Knights of Honor. He is also a member of the Technical Society of the Pacific coast.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 755. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.