Cook-DuPage County IL Archives News.....Orland P Bassett, Editor and Lincoln's Friend, Dies 1921
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Journal Of IL State Historical Society, Vol 14 1921
Orland P. Bassett, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, died Saturday, 
February 26, at Pasadena, California, aged 86. Mr. Bassett organized the 
Pictorial Printing Company of Chicago and was the first horticulturist to 
commercialize the “American Beauty" rose. He had lived in Pasadena since 1902. 
Mr. Bassett came from western Pennsylvania to Sycamore, Illinois in the late 
fifties, and started a newspaper there. In 1868 he came to Chicago and 
organized the Pictorial Printing Company, of which he was president until 
1916, when he founded the florist's firm of Bassett and Washburn. The body was 
brought to Hinsdale, Illinois for burial.

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Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Published Quarterly 
by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-
July, 1921 No. 1-2.

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