Background
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam was born on February 17, 1876 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of H. Sawyer and Anne (Loring) Daskam.
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam was born on February 17, 1876 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of H. Sawyer and Anne (Loring) Daskam.
Bachelor of Arts, Smith College, 1898.
Member National Speakers’ and Writers’ Bureau, Civilian Defense Volunteer Offices. Writer of War Loan Slogans and special articles for Writers’ War Board. Broadcasting for salvage campaigns and recruiting, 1941-1944.
Collect, curator, mus. of celebrities, Onteora Club.
Author: Smith College Stories, 1900. Sister’s Vocation and Other Girls’ Stories, 1900. The Imp and the Angel, 1901.
Fables for the Fair, 1901. The Madness of Philip, 1902. Whom the Gods Destroyed, 1902.
Middle Aged Love Stories, 1903. Poems, 1903
Memoirs of a Baby, 1904. Her Fiance, 1904
The Domestic Adventurers, 1907.
Ten to Seventeen, 1908. An Idyll of All Fools’ Day, 1908. In the Border Country, 1909.
Biography of aBoy, 1910. While Caroline Was Growing, 1911. Margarita’s Soul (pseudonym Ingraham Lovell”), 1909.
The Inheritance, 1912. The Strange Cases of Doctor Stanchon, 1913. The Luck o’ Lady Joan, 1913.
To-Day’s Daughter, 1914. Open Market, 1915. Compiled: Best Nonsense Verse, 1901. On Our Hill, 1918
Square Peggy, 1919.
Blind Cupid, 1923
Truth O’ Women, 1923. Medusa’s Head, 1926
Counterpoint, 1927. Luck of Lowry, 1931
The Girl in the Window, 1932.
Kathy, 1933
The Room on the Roof, 1934. Cassie-on-the-Job, 1936. The House by the Road, 1937.
The Root and the Flower, 1939. The Door in the Closet, 1940. The World in His Heart, 1941.
Winner of the League of Nations prize, with Hymn for the Nations.” 1935. Compiler Girl Scout National Hand Book, 1920. Contributor to mags.
Member National Speakers’ and Writers’ Bureau, Civilian Defense Volunteer Offices. Member Girl Scout National Executive Board, 1914-1924.
Married Selden Bacon, July 25, 1903. Children: Anne, Deborah, Selden Daskam.