Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hopkins Co.

ELIJA BASSETT, of the firm of Bassett Bros., livery, was born 
December 14, 1852, in Hopkins County, Ky.  He is a son of Amos and 
Lucy W. (Nisbet) Bassett.  He was reared on his father's farm and 
received a good common school education.  At the age of twenty-one 
he secured employment in W. A. Nisbet's livery stable, and since 
that time has been engaged in this line of business.  In 1882, he, 
with his brothers George and William, opened a stable opposite the 
Belmont House.  Their stock consists of fifteen to twenty horses, 
and a like number of vehicles.  Mr. Bassett was married, March 27, 
1884, to Mrs. Rover, of Hopkins County.

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