The town is named for the famous circuit riding preacher Henry Bidleman Bascom, who became a Congressional chaplain and served as president of Madison College and of Transylvania College before being ordained a Methodist bishop.
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In the mid-1930s, two Columbia, Mississippi cowboys – Earl and Weldon Bascom – made Columbia the historic “Home of Mississippi Rodeo.”
Henry Bascom joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in Western Pennsylvania in 1811 after his family migrated to the frontier area.
John U. Bascom M.D., FACS, was an American surgeon and researcher who pioneered new understanding and treatment of pilonidal disease.
Bascom reared four siblings, one being Bernadette Bascom who became a well known R&B singer in the United States.
Peterson was named Dean of Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy in September 1997 and previously served as University Distinguished Professor of Education at Michigan State University and Sears-Bascom Professor of Education at University of Wisconsin–Madison.
This bucking exhibition sparked such interest in the town that a professional rodeo was organized a month later by Weldon Bascom and his brother Earl Bascom, assisted by other Mormon cowboys including Jake Lybbert, Waldo Ross, Ashel Evans, Horace and Lester Flake, and Don and Ferral Pearce.
It remained preserved in storage for 42 years and in February 2008, a gift was made to the Bascom Center for Visual Arts in Highlands, NC by Dorothy and Jimmy Coleman and Dian and Tom Winindger in honor of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.
Willard Newell Bascom (November 7, 1916, New York City - September 20, 2000, San Diego, California), was an engineer, adventurer and scientist, who first proposed using Neoprene for wetsuits to fellow scientist Hugh Bradner.