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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bacon, John, clergyman, jurist, congressin 1737 in Canterbury, Conn. He settled in Boston; and held the positions of magistrate, representative in the state legislature, presiding judge of the court of common pleas, and a member and president of the state senate. In 1801-03 he was a representative to the seventh congress from Massachusetts. He died on Oct. 25, 1830, in Stockbridge, Mass. Bacon, John Edmund, lawyer, diplomat, statesman, was born March 3, 1832, in Edgeiield, S.C. In 1857 he was appointed secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1860 he entered the confederate service as a private; and served throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major. In 1867 he was elected district judge; and in 1870 was an unsuccessful candidate for congress. In 1872 he removed to Columbia, S. C; and in 1878 was elected a representative in the state legislature. He devoted himself to securing the re-establishment of the South Carolina college, which end he accomplished after a long and laborious struggle. In 1886 he was appointed United States charge d'affaires to

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Paraguay and Uruguay. Bacon, John Harwood, soldier, diplomat, author, was bom Nov. 6, 1875, in Portland, Maine. During the Spanish-American war he was a private in company M, third regiment Wisconsin volunteers. In 1901-03 he was United States vice-consul general at Hong Kong, China. He is the author of The Pursuit of Phyllis.

Bacon, John Moshy, soldier, was born April 1844, in Kentucky. He served in the Spanish- American war; and attained the rank of brigadier-general United States vol17,

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Bacon, John Watson, civil engineer, bankwas born June 9, 1827, in Hartford, Conn. For several years he was state commissioner of the official topographical survey of Connecticut; and since 1893 has been president of the Savings bank of Danbury, Conn. Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam, author, poet, was born Feb. 17, 1876, in Stamford, Conn. She is the author of Smith College Stories; Fables for the Fair; The Madness of Philip; Whom the Gods Destroyed; and a er,

volume of Poems. Bacon, Josiah, soldier, was

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joined the United States army became first lieutenant in 1812; was made regimental quartermaster in 1814; and in 1814-15 he served as captain. Bacon, Leonard, clergyman, author, was bora Feb. 19, 1802, in Detroit, Mich. In 182581 he was the pastor of the congregational church in New Haven, Conn.; and in 1866-71 he occupied the chair of didactic itheology in Yale. He was one of the founders and editors of the New Englander; and also of The Independent. He was the author of Historical Discourses ; Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays; Genesis of the New England Churches; and Christion Self -Culture. He died Dec. 24, 1881, in New Haven, Conn. chusetts.

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Bacon, Leonard Woolsey, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 1, 1830, in New Haven, Conn. He was author of A Life Worth Livand History of American Christianity. He died May 12, 1907, in Amherst, Mass. Bacon, Mrs. Mary ScheU Hoke, writer, auwas born Nov. 20, 1870, in Atchison, Kan. She is the author of The Soul of a Woman; The Diary of a Musician; A King's Divinity; Crumbs and His Times; Old New England Churches; and several plays. Bacon, Matthew, colonial governor. In 1688-90 he was colonial governor of Virginia. thor,

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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 gover;

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Bacon, Nathaniel, lawyer, jurist, was born July 14, 1802, in Ballston, N.Y. In 1833 he moved to Niles, Mich.; in 1855 was appointed circuit judge and one of the judges of the supreme court; and in 1857-69 was circuit judge. He died Sept. 9, 1869, in Niles, Mich. Bacon,

Rebecca

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philanthropist,

was born in 1826 in New Haven, Conn. She became distinguished by her philanthropic labors in the founding of the Hampton institute of Virginia, and the New Haven school of nursing. She died in 1878 in New Haven,

Conn. Bacon, Samuel, clergyman, was born July 22, 1781, in Sturbridge, Mass. In 1819 he was appointed by the United States government one of three agents to colonize Africa with negroes, under the auspices of the American colonization society. He died May 3, 1825, in Africa. Bacon, Selden, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1861, in New Haven, Conn. In 188394 he practiced law in Minneapolis, Minn.; and since 1894 has practiced law in New York City. He is the author of Equity Plea-

dings and Procedure.

Bacon, Theodore, soldier, lawyer, author, in 1833 in New Haven, Conn. He served through the civil war as captain in the Connecticut volunteers; and in 1865-1900 practiced law in Rochester, N.Y. He was 'the author of Biography of Delia Bacon. He died in 1900, in Rochester, N.Y. Bacon, Thomas Scott, author, was born in 1825 in New York. He was an episcopal controversialist of Maryland. He was 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 Prinitive and Catholic Doctrine as to Holy Scripture. He died in Baltimore, Md. Bacon, William Johnson, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1803, in Williamstown, Mass. He was a member of the New York house of assembly in 1850; and in 1853-69 was a justice of the supreme court. In 1877-79 he was a representative from

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