Sacramento County
Biographies
CHARLES
HENRY FASSETT
CHARLES HENRY FASSETT.--A contracting plumber whose ability to undertake extensive work, and to finish what he may undertake, to the letter, has added very much to his wide reputation for quality of workmanship and dependability of materials employed, is Charles Henry Fassett, who was born in Florin, Cal., on March 18, 1867, the son of L. H. and Helen (Alzeda) Fassett. They will long be remembered by those who knew them as worthy pioneers who made straighter and easier the paths they were traveling for all those who were destined to come after.
Charles Henry Fassett went to the public schools, and then topped off his studies with the fine commercial courses at Howe’s Business College; and after that, he took up farming and for three years raised fruit in Florin. Attracted to Sacramento by a chance to enter the Southern Pacific shops, he came here in 1893, and for fourteen years gave himself to railroad work. He then took up plumbing, bought out a firm already established, and studied sanitary engineering; and since that time he has been more than busy, installing the finest of plants in flats and other dwellings. His thorough acquaintance with the latest and most approved methods, and his ambition to render only the most reliable service, together with his desire to please, putting himself in the place of the customer, and realizing that, after all, the patron is entitled to what he wants and is willing to pay for, all these qualities have contributed toward his success. His reward has been, in addition to the steady growth of trade, the consciousness that he has helped materially the growth of one of the fairest and most promising cities in all of California. In politics, he is a Republican.
In July, 1890, Mr. Fassett was married to Miss Ida Longabaugh, a favorite native daughter of Sacramento, who died in 1906, the mother of one child, Fay V., now Mrs. Alden J. Nugent; and on August 12, 1911, he married Miss Rose Geraldine Grubbs, a gifted and charming lady, now the mother of three children, Lawrence Keith, Nina Ann and Jess. Mr. Fassett belongs to the Maccabees; and he is fond of outdoor sports, and is well-known as a successful duck-hunter.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 950.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.