FASSETT, Cornelia Addle (Strong), artist, born in Owasco, Cayuga County, New York, 9 November 1831. She studied watercolor painting in New York City, and then spent two years in Paris and Rome, painting in oil under Matthieu and other artists. She returned to the United States about 1855, established herself as a portrait painter in Chicago, Illinois, and in 1875 became a resident of Washington, D.C. She has executed portraits of Vice president Henry Wilson, Justices Miller and Field, Chief Justice Waite, President Garfield, John A. Logan, Clara Barton, and others, and in 1877'80 painted "The Electoral Commission in Open Session," containing portraits of about 200 persons. She became a member of the Chicago academy of design in 1873.