New Britain’s Notable Women: Lena Candee Bassette, Suffragette and Political Leader

Best known for her work as a suffragette and local political leader,  Lena Candee Bassette (1872-1957) was born in Oran, New York on June 18, 1872. She was one of five children of Ralph Candee and Anne Sarah Housley, and from the age of eleven was raised in Houston, Texas by her aunt and uncle...