Leonard Bacon

January 12, 1907 (age 0)

On October 16, 1856 he was ordained to the Congregational ministry at Litchfield, Connecticut. He served the church in Litchfield until 1860, and for the next eleven years was successively state missionary of the general association of Connecticut, and pastor in Stamford, Brooklyn, and Baltimore. The next five years he spent abroad, during a part of which time he was pastor of the American Church in Geneva. From 1878 to 1892, his pastorates took him from the Park Church, Norwich, Connecticut, to Philadelphia, where he had charge of the Woodland Presbyterian Church, then to Savannah, where he served the Ancient Independent Presbyterian Church, and finally back to Norwich, where from 1887 to 1892 he was at the Second Congregational Church. The next ten years he devoted to study and writing, but from 1902 to 1906 he again engaged in pastoral work. Interest in the Old Catholic movement led him to publish several volumes of translations from Père Hyacinthe in 1869, 1870, and 1871, and in the following year, An Inside View of the Vatican Council. He also published another translation, The Abbé Tigrane (1875). His History of American Christianity (1897) is the final volume in the American Church History series, and sums up what is described in the preceding volumes without adding much that is new. The Congregationalists (1904) is a brief popular work. Other writings of his include Fair Answers to Fair Questions (1868); Church Papers (1876); A Life Worth Living, Memorial to Emily Bliss Gould (1879); The Sabbath Question (1882), with G. B. Bacon; The Simplicity that is in Christ (1886); Norwich, The Rose of New England (1896); Young People's Societies (1900), with C. A. Northrop; Anti-Slavery before Garrison (1903). He also edited several hymnbooks and wrote much for periodicals.

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Deutsche geistliche Lieder / the Hymns of Martin Luther: Set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version

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The Simplicity that is in Christ: Sermons to the Woodland Church, Philadelphia. 1886

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An Inside View of the Vatican Council, in the Speech of the Most Reverend Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis

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A History of American Christianity

Discourses on Various Occasions by the Reverend Father Hyacinthe. With a Biographical Sketch

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The Congregationalists

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The Sabbath question microform : Sunday observance and Sunday laws, a serman and two speeches

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Leonard Woolsey Bacon

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Background

He was born on January 12, 1830 in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Rev. Leonard Bacon and Lucy (Johnson) Bacon.

Education

After graduating from Yale in 1850 he went abroad with his father and traveled in Europe and the East. Upon his return he studied theology for two years at Andover Seminary and for another at the Yale Divinity School, graduating from the latter in 1854. He then studied medicine, and in 1856 received the degree of M. D. from the Yale Medical School.

Career

On October 16, 1856 he was ordained to the Congregational ministry at Litchfield, Connecticut. He served the church in Litchfield until 1860, and for the next eleven years was successively state missionary of the general association of Connecticut, and pastor in Stamford, Brooklyn, and Baltimore. The next five years he spent abroad, during a part of which time he was pastor of the American Church in Geneva. From 1878 to 1892, his pastorates took him from the Park Church, Norwich, Connecticut, to Philadelphia, where he had charge of the Woodland Presbyterian Church, then to Savannah, where he served the Ancient Independent Presbyterian Church, and finally back to Norwich, where from 1887 to 1892 he was at the Second Congregational Church.

The next ten years he devoted to study and writing, but from 1902 to 1906 he again engaged in pastoral work.

Interest in the Old Catholic movement led him to publish several volumes of translations from Père Hyacinthe in 1869, 1870, and 1871, and in the following year, An Inside View of the Vatican Council. He also published another translation, The Abbé Tigrane (1875). His History of American Christianity (1897) is the final volume in the American Church History series, and sums up what is described in the preceding volumes without adding much that is new. The Congregationalists (1904) is a brief popular work. Other writings of his include Fair Answers to Fair Questions (1868); Church Papers (1876); A Life Worth Living, Memorial to Emily Bliss Gould (1879); The Sabbath Question (1882), with G. B. Bacon; The Simplicity that is in Christ (1886); Norwich, The Rose of New England (1896); Young People's Societies (1900), with C. A. Northrop; Anti-Slavery before Garrison (1903). He also edited several hymnbooks and wrote much for periodicals.

Achievements

In social, political, and religious issues of his times, he often broke with the traditions of his countrymen, sometimes causing "great sensation. "

Works

$Deutsche geistliche Lieder \/ the Hymns of Martin Luther: Set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version Deutsche geistliche Lieder \/ the Hymns of Martin Luther: Set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version$ The Simplicity that is in Christ: Sermons to the Woodland Church, Philadelphia. 1886 The Simplicity that is in Christ: Sermons to the Woodland Church, Philadelphia. 1886

The Simplicity that is in Christ: Sermons to the Woodland Church, Philadelphia. 1886 The Simplicity that is in Christ: Sermons to the Woodland Church, Philadelphia. 1886

An Inside View of the Vatican Council, in the Speech of the Most Reverend Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis An Inside View of the Vatican Council, in the Speech of the Most Reverend Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis

A History of American Christianity A History of American Christianity

Discourses on Various Occasions by the Reverend Father Hyacinthe. With a Biographical Sketch Discourses on Various Occasions by the Reverend Father Hyacinthe. With a Biographical Sketch

The Congregationalists The Congregationalists

The Sabbath question microform : Sunday observance and Sunday laws, a serman and two speeches The Sabbath question microform : Sunday observance and Sunday laws, a serman and two speeches

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- Deutsche geistliche Lieder / the Hymns of Martin Luther: Set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version
  (Deutsche geistliche Lieder / the Hymns of Martin Luther -...)
- The Congregationalists
  (Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We h...)
- Discourses on Various Occasions by the Reverend Father Hyacinthe. With a Biographical Sketch
  ( About the Book In historical fiction the plot is set in...)
- An Inside View of the Vatican Council, in the Speech of the Most Reverend Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis
  ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
- The Simplicity that is in Christ: Sermons to the Woodland Church, Philadelphia. 1886
  ( About the Book Biblical studies are a set of diverse di...)
- The Sabbath question microform : Sunday observance and Sunday laws, a serman and two speeches
  (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
- Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the prayer of contemplation: extracted out of more than forty treatises by the Ven. F. Augustine Baker
- A History of American Christianity
- The Church-book: hymns and tunes for the uses of christian worship. Prepared by L. W. Bacon

Religion

A born controversialist, he scented opportunity for combat from afar, and his essays on "Two Sides of a Saint" (St. Francis de Sales) and "William Lloyd Garrison" in Irenics and Polemics (1895) reveal with what relish he corrected perversions of history and discredited popular idols. His own bias is always apparent in his writings, but he sought diligently for facts and endeavored to be fair.

Personality

He was a restless, intense man, brilliant but erratic, widely informed and versatile, with a taste for historical investigation, a forceful speaker, and a vigorous, slashing writer. His lack of tact, frankness in speaking his mind, and polemic spirit were not conducive to long pastorates.

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On October 7, 1857, he married Susan, daughter of Nathaniel and Almira (Selden) Bacon. When she died, he married Letitia Wilson Jordan.

Father:: Leonard Bacon
Mother:: Lucy (Johnson) Bacon
Wife:: Susan Bacon
Wife:: Letitia Wilson Jordan

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Deutsche geistliche Lieder / the Hymns of Martin Luther: Set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version

The Simplicity that is in Christ: Sermons to the Woodland Church, Philadelphia. 1886

An Inside View of the Vatican Council, in the Speech of the Most Reverend Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis

A History of American Christianity

Discourses on Various Occasions by the Reverend Father Hyacinthe. With a Biographical Sketch

The Congregationalists

The Sabbath question microform : Sunday observance and Sunday laws, a serman and two speeches

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