Famous People with Name Bascom

Bascom Lamar Lunsford            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bascom Lamar Lunsford: was a lawyer, folklorist, and performer of traditional (folk and country) music from western North Carolina. He was often known by the nickname "Minstrel of the Appalachians." Bascom was involved in the politics of the Democratic Party. He managed the cam

Earl W Bascom            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Earl W Bascom: was an American painter, printmaker and sculptor, raised in Canada, who portrayed his own experiences cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West.Earl Bascom was born in a sod-roofed log cabin on the Bascom 101 Ranch in Vernal, Utah. His father, John W. Bascom, had been a deputy sheriff in Utah who chased Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch Gang. Both sets of Earl's grandparents (Joel A. Bascom and C.F.B. Lybbert) were Mormon pioneers, ranchers and frontier lawmen.

Florence Bascom            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Florence Bascom: was the first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey. She was of Huguenot and Basque ancestry.She received her position at the USGS in 1896 and continued there until 1936. She also had three students who would also become members of the USGS. Two of those students, Eleanora Bliss and Anna Jonas Stose, were also important in other respects to her story.A great deal of her work involved the crystalline rocks and geomorphology of the Piedmont. This led to an unusual, for the time, example of a scientific dispute solely among women. The two students of Florence Bascom's mentioned above came to a different conclusion than her regarding the age of Wissahickon schist/gneiss. She contradicted them in a dispassionate way and the dispute is recorded as civil on the part of the three. That said by the 1930s it had broadened to most of those studying Appalachian geology and at times these individuals became more vehement than the original disputants.

John L. Bascom            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John L. Bascom: was an Iowan lawyer and politician. A Republican, He was elected three times to the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the Dickinson County district (House District 97), from January 8, 1907 to January 12, 1913. He was educated at the Northern In

Ruth Bascom            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ruth Bascom: was an American politician who served as the first female Mayor of Eugene, Oregon from 1993 until 1996.

Oronde Omari Bascome            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oronde Omari Bascome: is a cricketer who has played six One Day Internationals and one Twenty20 International for Bermuda.