Background
Bacon, son of Daniel and Rebecca (Thompson) Bacon, was born in Woodbury, Conn, August 24, 1812.
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He entered Yale College at the age of 21, after having spent several years in mercantile life, and graduated in 1837.
Career
In 1845-1846 he edited the New Englander, a quarterly magazine published in New Haven, and in the latter year joined in establishing the New Haven Morning Journal and Courier, which he edited until 1849. He also conducted a boarding and day school in Woodbury for some years. A great sufferer, for the most of his life from dyspepsia and erysipelas, he died after a week"s illness, in Derby, May 18, 1881, aged nearly 69 years.
His literary tastes were already marked while in college.
He was, if not the earliest to suggest, one of the most earnest supporters of the Yale Literary Magazine, of which he was one of the first board of editors. He published three volumes of poems, the last in 1880.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1881 Yale Obituary Record.
