Bacon, Florence R – Badger, Luther
Bacon, Florence R
journalist poet, was born March 25, 1867, in Portland, Maine. Her life has been spent principally in Wisconsin, where her parents removed when she was less than a year old. She attended the Milwaukee college, and since an early age has been engaged in literature. She is the society editor of the Daily Times of Minneapolis, Minn.; and the author of a volume of poems entitled Midsummer Mist; and another entitled Indian Legends.
Bacon, Francis
manufacturer, was born Jan. 22, 1831, in New York city. He is a successful piano manufacturer of New York; and in 1880 organized the firm of Francis Bacon and Company.
Bacon, Frederick Hampton
lawyer, author, was born May 5, 1849, in Niles, Mich. He engaged in the practice of his profession in St. Louis, Mo., and gained a high position at the bar in that state. He is the author of a law treatise entitled Benefit Societies and Life Insurance.
Bacon, George Allen
public official, author, was born April 4, 1830, in Wellfleet, Mass. In 1881 he was appointed corresponding clerk of the department of agriculture, which position he still holds.
He was the original author of the Game of Portrait Authors, and in 1884 he published A Life Sketch of Edward S. Wheeler.
Bacon, Henry
artist, author, was born in 1840, in Haverhill, Mass. He is an artist who has lived principally in Paris; and is the author of A Parisian Year; and Parisian Art and Artists.
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
clergyman, statesman, was born in 1737, in Canterbury, Conn.
He graduated at the college of New Jersey in 1765; studied theology; and after preaching for a time in. Maryland, removed to Massachusetts, and settled in Boston. He subsequently held the positions of magistrate, representative in the state legislature, presiding judge of the court of common pleas, a member and president of the state senate, and that of representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1801 to 1803. He died Oct. 25, 1820, in Berkshire county, Mass.
Bacon, John Edmund
lawyer, congressman, was born March 3, 1832, in Edgefield, S. C. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced the practice of law. In 1857 he was appointed secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, Russia; in 1860 entered the confederate service as a private; and served throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major. In 1868 he was elected district judge; and in 1870 was an unsuccessful candidate for congress. In 1872 he removed to Columbia, S. C.; in 1878 was elected a representative in the state legislature, and devoted himself to securing the re-establishment of the South Carolina college, which end he accomplished after a long and laborious struggle. In 1885 he was appointed United States charge d'affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay.
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, Nathaniel
lawyer, jurist, was born July 14, 1802, in Ballston, N. Y.
He moved to Niles, Mich., in 1833, and in 1855, was appointed circuit judge and one of the judges of the supreme court. In 1857. he was elected circuit judge for six years; was elected again in 1866 to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected in 1869 for six years. He died Sept. 9, 1869, in Niles, Mich.
BACON, REBECCA TAYLOR. She became distinguished by her philanthropic labors in the founding of the Hampton, Va., institute and the New Haven school of nursing.
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.
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.
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, George E
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 13, 1795, in Newbern, N. C. He graduated at Yale college in 1813; studied and practiced law; and was elected to the legislature in 1816.
In 1820 he was elected a judge of the supreme court, which position he resigned in 1825; was appointed secretary of the navy in 1841; and was elected a senator in congress in 1846, and re-elected in 1849 for a term of six years. He died May 11, 1866, in Raleigh, N. C.
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.
Badger, Joseph
missionary, was born Feb. 28, 1757, in Wilbraham, Mass.
In 1800 the missionary society sent him to the unsettled part of the country northwest of the Ohio river. Here he endured great hardships for thirty years, going from settlement to settlement, over a country where there were neither roads nor bridges, and often passing the night. in the branches of a tree. This mode of life gave him great familiarity with the country, which was of use to the American army during the war of 1812, when he served as chaplain. He died May 5, 1846, in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Badger, Joseph
clergyman, was born Aug. 16, 1792, in Gilmanton. He edited Palladium; and founded various churches. He died May 12, 1852, in Gilmanton.
Badger, Luther
lawyer, congressman, was born April 10, 1785, in Partridgefield, Mass. In 1824 he was elected a representative to the nineteenth congress; had been engaged in military services in his state, and in 1819 was appointed judge advocate for the twentyseventh brigade of infantry of New York state, which office he held for eight years.
In 1832 resumed the practice of law, and in 1840 was appointed examiner in chancery and commissioner of United States loans, which office he held for three years. From 1846 to 1849 was United States district attorney for New York.