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Bacon, William Johnson

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1803, in Williamstown, Mass. He graduated at Hamilton college in 1822; and was appointed counsel to the corporation of the city of Utica in 1837. He was a member of the New York house of assembly in 1850; in 1853 was elected a justice of the supreme court for eight years, and in 1861 was re-elected, without opposition, for another term of eight. years. He was elected to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.

BACON, WILLIAM THOMPSON, clergyman, poet, was born Aug. 24, 1814, in Woodbury, Conn. For some time he was one of the editors of the New Englander, and during several years editor and proprietor of the Journal and Courier, of New Haven. He then resumed his ministerial labors, and was in charge of parishes in Kent and in Derby, Conn. He was the author of two volumes of poems.

He died May 18, 1881, in Derby, Conn.