Bassett, Allan Lee
soldier, journalist, insurance president, was born Feb. 28, 1827, near Birmingham, Conn. For twenty years he was successful merchant of New York city. He served with distinction through the civil war in the twenty-third New York regiment. In 1866 he established The Northern Monthly and New Jersey Magazine, of Irvington, N.
J., which subsequently a became Putnam's Magazine. In 1873 he organized the Prudential Insurance company, now one of the most important institutions of its kind in America; and he became its first president. He died Dec. 4, 1892, in Newark, N. J. His son, Carrol Phillips Bassett, still resides in Newark, N. J.