The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baskette, Gideon Hicks

​BASKETTE, Gideon Hicks, journalist, was born at Middleton, Rutherford county, Tenn., March 11, 1845. He was educated at ​Murfreesboro, his collegiate course being interrupted by the civil war. He enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of sixteen, serving until the close of the war. He then entered mercantile life, and in 1874 became editor of the Murfreesboro News, which he conducted until 1882, when he was chosen editor of the Nashville American. He subsequently was editor of the Chattanooga Democrat and later held an editorial position on the Cincinnati News. from which place he returned to Chattanooga to take charge of The People's Paper, a tri-weekly literary journal. This position he held until 1884, when he became managing editor of the Nashville Evening Banner. In the following year he assumed its chief editorship, and the presidency of the Nashville Banner Publishing Co.

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