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Bacon, Henry – Badger, Joseph

Bacon, Henry

lawyer, congressman, was born March 14, 1846, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He received an academic education at the Mount Pleasant academy at Sing Sing and at the Episcopal academy of Cheshire, Conn.; and was at Union college, from which he graduated in 1865. He studied law and commenced to practice in 1866; and was elected to the fortyninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat, and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Bacon, Joel Smith

college president, was born Sept. 3, 1802, in New York. In 1841 he became president of the Columbian college; and from 1855 to 1866 was engaged in female education in the south. He died Nov. 9, 1869, in Richmond, Va.

Bacon, John Watson

civil engineer, banker, was born June 9, 1827, in Hartford, Conn. For several years he has been state commissioner of the official topographical survey of Connecticut. He has been director of the Savings bank of Danbury for over thirty years, and on the death of its first president was elected to fill the vacancy.

Bacon, Leland Carey

diplomat, was born in 1862, in Centremoreland, Pa.

He is treasurer of the Pan-American Sewing Machine company of New York city; has served as United States consul at San Domingo during 1882-83; and has filled various other public positions of trust.

Bacon, Leonard

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 19, 1802, in Detroit, Mich. He was the pastor of a congregational church in New Haven, Conn., 1825- 81, and a prominent figure in the denomination to which he belonged. He was the author of Historical Discourses; Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays; Genesis of the New England Churches; and Christian Self-Culture. He died Dec. 24, 1881, in New Haven, Conn.

Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 1, 1830, in New Haven, Conn. He is a congregational clergyman; and the author of A Life Worth Living; Church Papers; Sermons; and The Simplicity That Is. in Christ.

Bacon, Nathaniel

colonial leader, was born in 1630, in England. About 1650 he settled upon the James river, and soon after his arrival was appointed a member of the governor's council. He died Oct. 1, 1676.

Bacon, Sherman Joseph

merchant, was born Feb. 27, 1812, in Burlington, Conn. He established a drug business in St. Louis, Mo.; and in 1848 a commercial business in copper and metal, which he carried on successfully for nearly a quarter of a century.

Bacon, Thomas Scott

author, was born in 1825, in New York. He is an episcopal controversialist of Maryland; and the author of Both Sides of the Controversy between the Roman and Reformed Churches; The Reign of God and the Reign of Law; The Beginnings of Religion; Primitive Man in Christian Thought; It Is Written; and The Primitive and Catholic Doctrine as to Holy Scripture.

Bacone, Almon C

college president, was born April 25, 1830. He has held prominent positions in the schools of New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Michigan; and in 1878 he was called to take charge of the Cherokee Male seminary in Tahlequah, I. T.

Badeau, Adam

general, author, was born Dec. 29, 1831, in New York city.

He was a general in the United States army; and the author of The Vagabond; Military History of General Grant; Conspiracy: Cuban Romance; Aristocracy in England; and Grant in Peace: a Personal Memoir. He was secretary to General Grant, and assisted him in writing his life. He died in 1895.

Badger, Joseph

soldier, jurist, was born Jan. 11, 1722, in Haverhill, Mass.

He was appointed brigadier-general in 1780, was judge of probate from 1784 to 1797, and in 1788 was a member of the convention that adopted the federal constitution. In 1784 and 1790-91 he was a member of the state council. He was one of the founders of Gilmanton academy. He died April 4, 1803.